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What to do when raw isn't working

Some people who go raw sail effortlessly into undreamed of levels of health and happiness and never look back. But for others it isn't such a smooth voyage. In many cases this is because they were not as genetically blessed and/or because they are dealing with serious health challenges. If this is you then read on as we have advice that may help you.

Maybe you felt better initially when you went raw but then reached a plateau and can't seem to move to the next level. Or maybe you have always struggled with your health and never really felt well on raw but just know that it has to be the best way to eat. Either way, in going raw you have taken a "road less travelled" that few are brave or enlightened enough to take, and it can be extremely disappointing and disheartening not to get the results you were hoping for.

Important aside: you can't undo decades worth of bodily abuse in days, so if you only recently went raw it could be just a matter of time for you. This article is written for people who have been eating raw or high raw for years - not days, weeks or months.

We see long-term health seekers in all three categories - rawsome, so-so and struggling - and we've noticed a common mistake. People in the latter two groups often put all their available time and energy into refining their diet when it is much more likely they will get the results they are after if they channel those efforts into other areas. So here are the main pointers to consider if you are raw but not rawsome. The first three are nutrition-related, but (and this is assuming you are already eating raw or high-raw) once you have done them, consider yourself done on the nutrition front!

So that's okay then

I'm passionately into natural health, but purely because I never got around to doing anything about it I still have something in my house which is widely believed by experts in the natural health field to be a very bad thing. Wireless internet.

There are plenty of highly qualified people who believe that daily exposure to "wi-fi" is at the very least a potent energy zapper. Some experts believe its consequences can be a lot worse than that.

Today I called my internet service provider, a leading British telecommunications company, to find out how I can move off wireless. The person who took my call was, insofar as one can tell this from voice alone, not a day older than 20. 

When I explained that I would like to change from wireless broadband to wired he at first replied that I can simply connect using a cable. "But surely the wi-fi will still be in the house even if my computer is on a wired connection?" I asked. He replied that it would, and that if I was worried about someone else hijacking the connection I should password protect it. I explained that my concern was in fact about the health consequences of having wireless at home.

Dr Brian Clement of Hippocrates Health Institute tells it like it is

The anatomics of your subatomics

Who we are and what we’re capable of starts with our trillions of body cells. Are they clean, are they healthy and are they communicating properly? By Natalia Rose.

What does true health look and feel like? What is the natural experience of childbirth and menopause? How many decades should we live? How many decades should we live in an excellent state of health? When mainstream science attempts to answer these questions and others, it does so based on what is common. But what is common should not be mistaken for what is natural. None of the above questions can be answered meaningfully by mainstream scientific studies, as those invariably focus on people following some version of the standard – i.e. very unnatural – diet and lifestyle.  

We cannot hope to achieve our potential if we don’t know what we actually are, what we are made of and what sustains our being. Let me start this discussion by introducing a concept I call, “The theory of the electronic human”.

Everything in the world of form gives off either a negative or positive ionic charge based on the number of electrons to protons in its atomic structure. Healthy cells and tissues are made up of negatively-charged ionic particles. This makes man’s body alkaline, and all life-generating substances in the world of form carry a negative, or alkaline, ionic charge. An ion is simply a particle that is electrically charged (either positively or negatively), meaning it has either lost or gained one or more electrons.

When an atom has more electrons orbiting its nucleus than there are protons in the nucleus, it carries a negative ionic charge; when there are more protons in the nucleus than electrons orbiting the nucleus, the atom is said to carry a positive ionic charge. If it’s been a while since high school science, just think “pro” for positive/proton. Alright, now that we’re up to speed on basic atomic structure let’s move on…

Sun worship

Let me paint you a picture I only wish I could paint more often. I am currently sitting at my garden table, in my bikini, with a parasol shading my laptop, and the sun beating down on my back. It's scorching hot and there's not a cloud in the sky. And it's quarter past six in the evening, for goodness sake!

The south of England, where I live, has enjoyed uncharacteristically high temperatures since last Thursday. I've had an especially lucky time of it because, prior to that, I spent a week in Tuscany – which was also experiencing unusually high temperatures. And I feel better than I’ve felt since…well, since the last time I spent a fortnight in the sun. Coincidence? I think not.

For half of it I haven’t been on holiday; I’ve been hard at work. But whenever possible I’ve been hard at work in my outside office, wearing my summer uniform.

Why? Because the more I study health and meet people around the world who are enjoying extraordinary levels of it, the more convinced I am that getting out in the sun at every opportunity is one of the most health-promoting things we can do. And that whatever ails you, be it physical or mental, there are few things that will make you feel as good, as quickly, as getting out in the sun.

I’m sure there is more to this than vitamin D; I’m sure the sun’s rays bestow benefits on us that science has yet to uncover. But vitamin D is a huge deal and the studies that prove it just keep pouring in. Vitamin D has been linked with bone health, mental agility, immunity and emotional balance. And deficiency has been linked with osteoporosis, dementia, cancer, MS and depression – among other things.

Healing Cancer from Inside Out

We recently brought the brilliant DVD Healing Cancer from Inside Out to the UK for the first time. It quickly sold out, we have more in stock now and by popular demand we also have the accompanying book of the same name (pictured).

The emphasis of the DVD is on establishing that conventional methods to "cure" cancer will never rival the natural approaches that can heal it. The book, meanwhile, is a practical guide to a comprehensive anti-cancer lifestyle. As stated in the introduction, "This book focuses on providing the details for supporting cancer patients and essentially picks up where the film leaves off."

We recommend you invest in both the book and the DVD. The book is £12.97, and the DVD is £17.97, but we're selling both for a discount price of £26.30, a saving of £4.64, or 15%.

Go here to find out more about the book.

Go here to find out more about the DVD.

Go here if you missed the excerpt from our exclusive interview with cancer expert Thomas Lodi, M.D., one of the experts featured on the DVD.

The truth about cancer: its causes, prevention and treatment

Today we bring you another great extended excerpt from the current issue of Get Fresh! magazine. Thomas Lodi, M.D. has a cancer clinic in Arizona where he combines the best alternative therapies with the best conventional ones. Here he talks about his methods and shares health information that is essential reading – whether you have a cancer diagnosis or want to prevent one. Introduction and interview by Sarah Best.

It is estimated that 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women in the Western world will get cancer during their lifetimes. Nearly four decades after U.S. president Richard Nixon declared "war on cancer" in 1971, and despite the billions spent since then researching potential “cures”, more people are getting cancer than ever before, and more people are dying from it than ever before. Why? More people are getting it because of the way we now live and more people are dying from it because despite all that money and medical research, mortality rates remain unchanged. 

Against this grim backdrop, for those who know where to look, numerous raw and living foods centres are busy educating patients about cancer prevention and recovery. It’s all anecdotal, of course, but cancer patients who are lucky enough to find themselves at one of these places seem to fare much better than those who go the conventional route. One such centre is unique in that it is also a fully-equipped cancer clinic, staffed by a team of doctors and nurses: the “An Oasis Of Healing” clinic, in Mesa, Arizona. Mesa is a suburb of Phoenix and the clinic, located in a quiet residential district, is the inspiration of Thomas Lodi, M.D. 

Lodi practises under a homeopathic licence at the clinic, but he is also a medical doctor of 24 years’ experience, and a member of many professional bodies, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is a passionate advocate for natural living and holistic healing whose email signature reads, “Health is our greatest treasure. It must be guarded more preciously than gold.”

He both looks and comes across as someone much younger than his 57 years. He is a raw vegan and a teacher of the power of raw foods and raw juices, colonics and other complementary therapies. It is not unusual for late-stage cancer patients with seemingly hopeless prognoses to arrive at his clinic horizontal and to leave not long after, healthy and full of hope. Here, he shares his views on cancer – its causes, its treatment and its prevention – and also on health and human potential.

Let’s consider conventional cancer treatment first. Obviously, it’s not working in the majority of cases. Why not?
The three aspects of healing cancer are: stop making cancer, selectively target and destroy cancer without harming the patient, and stimulate and rebalance the immune system. Conventional medicine does none of those things. It is based solely on aggressive, non-specific or non-targeted methods to kill cancer cells which often end up killing the patient first. At the clinic, we take very seriously our Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm”.

In memory of Jade Goody...

…and ALL who have needlessly died years or decades before their time due to the current suppression of information about preventing and healing cancer.

Jade Goody died last night, less than two months after her doctors told her that her she had less than two months to live and that nothing further could be done. First of all, when doctors tell a patient this, it’s hardly surprising that they tend to be “right” most of the time. Why? Because the mind-body connection is so powerful, and the amount of trust most people place in doctors so great.

And because, on top of that, such a pronouncement usually causes people to do nothing to try and improve their health when there is so much they could be doing that would greatly increase their chances of enjoying better quality of life, living longer, and in many cases healing their cancer. Jade Goody was not an educated woman, but she was a smart one. If she had been given the information that could have saved her life by those in whom she placed her trust, would she have ignored it? It is hard to believe she would.

But Jade was obviously not given this information. In the extensive media coverage since her diagnosis, we have seen Jade holding a Lucozade bottle...Jade with a box of Cadbury’s Roses...Jade sucking a lollipop... One recent newspaper story even talked about the fact Jade had been asking for cans of Coca Cola as a positive thing. This was a young woman who wanted to live and who had much to live for, including two young sons. And who would, it is safe to say, definitely not have been consuming these things if someone had told her they are among the worst things for a cancer patient to consume; that refined sugar feeds cancer cells and also has a massive suppressive effect on the immune system.

But Jade Goody’s story is just a very public version of a story that is incredibly common and no less of a tragedy because of that. And her doctors? They were no doubt highly qualified and did the very best they could for her with the knowledge they have. They were doing what they were trained to do and following the protocol they are instructed to follow.

The truth about cancer

Early last year, an email containing cancer prevention and healing guidelines from the prestigious Johns Hopkins teaching hospital in Baltimore began circulating. It was entitled "Cancer update from Johns Hopkins" and contained by far the most enlightened information on cancer - its causes, prevention and healing - that had ever been released by any mainstream medical establishment.

People were excited, and rightly so. It seemed that conventional medicine was finally reconsidering its approach of either cutting out, poisoning or irradiating the symptoms of cancer, rather than treating its underlying causes.

But the email turned out to be a hoax.

No one knows who's really behind it, but it sure as hell wasn't Johns Hopkins.

When it appeared on the radar of their office of public affairs they released a statement entitled "Email hoax regarding cancer", announcing that they did not publish this email "describing properties of cancer cells and suggesting prevention strategies" and "nor do we endorse its contents". Prevention strategies of all things! No wonder they wanted to set the record straight on that.

So let's take a look at the objectionable, definitely-not-endorsed-by-Johns-Hopkins contents of the email:

Jade Goody "fighting for her life".

British reality TV star Jade Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer last August and this week it was announced that the treatment of surgery followed by aggressive chemotherapy has failed to stop the cancer spreading. Tragically, it has now invaded her bowel, her liver and her groin.

The prognosis has reportedly gone from a "40%" chance of survival to doctors changing the strategy from one of attempting to cure the cancer (as if throwing poison at its symptoms was ever going to do that) to one of attempting to keep her alive as long as possible. What makes this situation especially tragic is that Jade is just 27 and the mother of two young sons.

What is also tragic is that the more conservative, non-radical healing method of addressing the cause of cancer rather than only fighting its symptoms is not made available by conventional medicine.

But there is always, always hope. Many with worse prognoses than Jade's have triumphed over cancer by the highly courageous step of taking responsibility for their own health.

Resources:

The talk "Healing Cancer From The Inside Out" by the brilliant cancer expert and Get Fresh! magazine regular Thomas Lodi, M.D. who trained in both conventional and holistic medicine and treats cancer patients at his Arizona clinic (below) Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.

An Oasis Of Healing, Dr Lodi's clinic.

This inspiring radio interview with Crazy Sexy Cancer's Kris Carr (scroll down to the second interview on the page).

This except from the book Cancer is not a disease - It's a survival mechanism by Andreas Moritz.

A Living Miracle, by Pat Reeves. One woman's tale of living with cancer for the last 30 years, and enjoying amazing levels of energy, health and fitness in the process.