The Newsletter

October 7, 2008

I struggled for four decades to recover from multiple "incurable" diseases and death-cap mushroom-
poisoning. My work and Primal Diet focus on helping bodies detoxify from pollutants that cause disease,
whether from medicine, cooking or other industrial toxins, and helping bodies heal themselves. Stored
pollutants in our bodies can raise their toxic heads at any time in our lives and cause serious problems from
infancy to elderly, including cancer. Also, I work to avoid and prevent pollutants from entering the body. My
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Subscriber’s question: How Toxic is Our Civilized World?

by aajonus vonderplanitz, phd nutrition

Dear Aajonus, In light of Bisphenol A research inhaled. Flintstones contain metallic minerals that are
(http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Report_Warns_on_Serious_ not bio-actively or ionically bound, nor evenly
Health_Problems_Linked_to_Bisphenol_A_16445.html) do distributed with bio-nutrients. When inhaled, flint
you recommend avoiding all plastic water dust causes destructive free-radical activity that is
containers? (Sorry, the senders name disappeared predominantly destructive on cellular levels. Even if
during a computer crash.) we use the ancient wood-to-wood friction method to
Aajonus: Since pollution results from almost make fire, smoke disburses tars and monoxides into
everything we do in modern society, we probably air we breathe. Monoxides arrest oxygen absorption
should ask: How toxic are we in our extremely toxic and smother cells. Vegetable tars from burned wood
environments? Rather than selectively address harden and eventually crystallize in humans.
compounds in plastics first, I will introduce discon- Now, consider a modern-day fire such as
certing data that most people do not want to face or barbeque. We use poisonous lighter fluid, fabricated
admit about overall disease-producing pollution at its and chemically treated charcoal and sulfur matches or
beginning. I discussed in my books that even the lighter. Charcoal contains mercury that vaporizes and
basic act of cooking produces many chemical we inhale it. Mercury is the worst neurotoxin on this
changes that cause environmental and body toxicity. planet. It dissolves cells, especially brain and nerve
Those chemical changes occur both in food and our cells. The chemical structure of lighter fluids are:
environment. aliphatic petroleum (solvent used to ignite charcoal),
It starts when we light a fire. Fire produces denatured alcohol (methylated fermentation); butane
monoxides. Monoxides are poisonous to our cells. If (highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gas
utilizing flintstones to start fire, often flint dust is used in cigarette lighters and gas-flame grills); and
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naphtha (volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon of millions of years, have we unwisely initiated
mixture used in wick type lighters and lamps). All of changes in our biology that may be damaging them
those are usually deadly to the entire body if profoundly for convenience? How well do we enjoy
swallowed, and deadly to many cells when inhaled. those conveniences in states of weakened senses and
All of them add pollution to our environment. With ill health? How many people are satisfied, even with
those alone, we added a minimum of 26 man-made all of our endless gadgets and conveniences? Could it
chemicals to our world that we are not properly be that our lack of optimal health is the reason most
equipped to live with optimally, healthfully. of us are unsatisfied and want more and more? Are
Rachel Carson pushed Americans to question we unable to be satisfied because we are trying to
chemical “miracles” when she published Silent achieve satisfaction from something other than
Spring in 1962, and legislation was passed to address health?
concerns she and others raised about environmental As a boy of 3-7 during the early and mid-1950s, I
toxins. By early 1970s, more alarms rang. DDT, the remember traveling through parts of Alabama,
pesticide that was advertised to have saved American Tennessee and Florida when racism and segregation
soldiers who fought in the South Pacific from malaria were strong and bitterness flourished among whites.
and been sprayed on millions of acres of cropland, It was so pervasive that African-Americans rarely
was fingered as a killer of birds, especially the ever contested whites. However, what I remember
beloved bald eagle. Eggshells thinned by exposure to most is the joy of life that blacks enjoyed even under
DDT resulted in fewer hatchlings that survived. DES, such suppression. I saw playfulness with considerat-
a drug believed to prevent miscarriage, was found to ion and abandon, and it all seemed so natural.
cause cancer in young women whose mothers took it Blacks young and old played outside their shakes
during pregnancy; emergency hysterectomies saved in ragged clothing and crude handmade toys, if any,
many of the daughters' lives, but at a terrible cost. It with such joy I could touch it but not understand it.
was also responsible for many deformities including We drove past them in our 1951 Packard sedan. We
very small hands and genetically twisted uteruses. had luxury that the blacks I watched could never
PCBs, highly effective lubricants and insulators embrace for themselves. My family utilized all that
used in electrical capacitors, transistors, hydraulic modern medicine that the times had to offer,
fluids, plasticizers, inks, waxes and adhesives, were especially since my mother was a Certified Nurse.
deforming and killing birds and fish. By 1971, My father, who was an engineer and inventor,
Monsanto voluntarily stopped making PCBs. Each of idolized technology. If he heard anyone say anything
these problems was seen as an isolated case; simply a bad about technology, he entered rage. He yelled at
few rogue chemicals had wreaked havoc, but havoc anyone who suggested that harm resulted from it.
could be contained. We were lead to believe that we We ingested all of the modern canned processed
could stop chemical damage by scientific inquiring foods and packaged processed cereals full of
and goodwill. chemical additives that claimed superior nutrition and
The average person still thinks about chemicals as safer than from a garden. We did not know the fraud.
single entities because that is what we are taught, and Rarely did my brothers and parents enjoy each
that our system of federal regulation that decides on a other. My family quarreled and fought daily if not
case-by-case basis whether chemicals are safe hourly. Those blacks I watched and adored could not
enough to circulate in our world provides safety. afford many of the modern foods and conveniences.
What most people do not know is that only about Overall, most of them ate from their gardens and
2,000 of the approximately 80,000 man-made new looked so much healthier than most whites. Looking
chemicals of the last century have been tested. Only a back on those events with what I know now about
handful of those have been properly tested for health cooked and processed foods with myriads of
consequences. additives, I understand why we were an unsatisfied
By having introduced so many substances that did and unhappy modern family, and why those “poor”
not evolve along with living organisms over hundreds blacks were rich with health in their poverty. They

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could not afford many chemically poisoned Because of our adherence to low-fat diets -
processed foods and were not contaminated as my fostered, promoted, advertised and brainwashed by
family was. media rhetoric from food, agricultural and medical
industries - our children have had little healthy fat to
The following study demonstrates that living a pure bind with toxins. Therefore children are at much
organic cooked processed lifestyle offers no greater risk from toxin-generated diseases.
protection: Toxic Nation: A Report on Pollution in Canadians A lifetime exposure to even low-level toxins
This is a report of studies conducted by ultimately degrades health when bodies lack fat.
Environmental Defence (in Canada) which arrives at Some of the chemicals found in test-subjects’ bodies
indications of excessive industrial toxicity levels in have been shown to harm development of children,
people. The results challenge much of the average cause reproductive disorders and cause cancer, and/or
health-conscious individuals. For instance, many cause neurological problems.
vegetarians came to discover after years of eating The “biomonitoring” method used in the Canadian
vegetarian that vegetarianism caused much health study which sampled human tissues and fluids gives
deterioration. Average health-conscious individuals us only a small sense of the various chemicals our
discover everyday that their faith in our “healthy” bodies have absorbed and are absorbing through air,
food products leaves us toxic. food, industrial products, soil and water. The study
In the Canadian study, children as young as 10 specifically tested for only 88 known chemical toxins
were found to have flame retardants, heavy metals, of 80,000. Tests detected 60 of those 88 chemicals in
insecticide metabolites , organophosphates, 11 volunteers, including 18 heavy metals, 5 PBDEs,
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and stain repellents 14 PCBs, 1 perfluorinated chemical, 10 organo-
even when raised by health conscious parents. One chlorine pesticides, 5 organophosphate insecticide
34-year-old mother who conscientiously selected metabolites, and 7 VOCs. Forty-four various
mostly organic, biological food stuff discovered from chemicals were detected in each volunteer, including
the study that she had 36 toxic chemicals; the highest 41 carcinogens, 27 hormone disruptors, 21
among the volunteers. Her 10-years-young son had respiratory toxins and 53 reproductive/developmental
25 toxic chemicals in his body. A 24-years-young toxins.
mother and her 10-years-young daughter had similar This study was the first Canadian measurement of
results, 31 and 24 respectively. PFOS levels (the key ingredient in Scotchgard, the
Three generations of one family of native-north- 3M-made fabric protector that is in nearly every
Americans from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in home) in people’s bodies. It is also an ingredient in
Sarnia, Ontario were tested. The elder had 32 “sizing” (chemicals used to protect and reduce
chemicals in his body. His son had 36, and his 14- stretching in materials while being cut and sewn).
years-young granddaughter had 20 chemicals. The That means that we are absorbing PFOS from our
elder Wilson Plain Sr. commented, "What's most clothes, bedding and home furnishings. Sizing
shocking is my granddaughter has chemicals in her remains in the fabric until many washes removes it.
body that were banned before she was even born. However, some of it remains in the fabric and every
Canadians have the right not to be polluted by these time we inhale or ingest a fiber of lint, our mouth,
chemicals." I think that everyone in the world has a lungs, esophagus and stomach dissolve it and release
right not to be polluted except those who manufac- it into our bodies. Even organic fibers may contain
ture, distribute, sell and utilize them. sizing. Some producers tout the label organic which
Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental only means that the fiber was grown or raised
Defence stated, "Pollution is now so bad in our organically but does not mean that the fabric was not
country that the bodies of our children have higher subjected to chemicals during processing.
levels of pollution than their parents. Our children are A First Nations leader from northern Quebec
being poisoned every day by toxic products in their found that he had the highest levels of mercury and
home, in their schools, and when they are at play." persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as PCBs

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and organochlorine pesticides. That reaffirmed other cookware. Even stainless steel which is partially
studies indicating that many chemicals migrate made of nickel and chromium gradually leeches from
through air and water currents and other climatic cookware every time food is cooked in it. Consider
conditions. that while cooking, food changes to highly fraction-
PCBs were detected in all volunteers including ated chemicals that often form into solvents. Those
those born in the early 1980s even though PCBs were solvents gradually erode surface metal of cookware.
banned in USA in 1970s. However, results revealed Compare and consider that simple water gradually
higher levels of PCBs in older volunteers in erodes rock made of metallic minerals. Now,
comparison with younger volunteers; for example, consider what highly reactive cooked compounds
between 12 and 14 PCBs were detected in samples from food will do to metal cookware.
from volunteers aged 60 and older, while an average Is modern stainless steel less toxic than metals
of 5 PCBs were detected in subjects aged 25 and made from a century ago? Yes but that does not mean
under. Those results are similar to equivalent studies that we are not being poisoned by cooking in them. It
done in the U.S. and Europe. simply means that we are being less poisoned.
It was reported on April 9, 2006, at a conference Aluminum and other metallic cookware including
examining air quality from sources such as coal, and especially non-stick coatings (i.e. Teflon) are
motor vehicles, and residential oil-emitted metals quicker to erode into food while cooking. Non-stick
such as copper, zinc and vanadium that these were cookware is more toxic than any cookware produced
present in the air at unhealthy levels (Health Effects prior to 1950s.
Institute). Those metals accumulated in lungs, heart, Flame-retardants containing polybrominated
liver tissues and in blood. There they damage cells diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are added to plastics
and very often prevent proper functions that are including foam products and mattresses to make them
detectably or obscurely disease, including allergies, less burnable. (Agency for Toxic Substances and
respiratory, and cardiovascular problems. At the Disease Registry's fact sheet.) PBDEs are in many
conference, they failed to properly acknowledge that home and office products to protect against extreme
mercury, the worst neurotoxin on Earth that is mainly fires. PBDEs can easily leave the products that
in our environment because of coal-burning, should contain them and enter the environment. Children
have been outlawed 60 years ago. teethe and chew on such products. Children wear
Mercury is in fish, beans, grains, lakes and oceans. clothing that industry tells us protect our children in
It’s in mouths within amalgam fillings. Mercury is case of fire. However, while every moment our
pervasive in our environment, released mainly into children perspire into and inhale fibers from those
the atmosphere through extensive coal-burning for clothing and bedding, they absorb PBDEs.
energy. The scientists didn't test vegetables and fruits, but
I blame airborne pollution including vehicle found PBDEs in a soy infant formula and breast milk.
emissions totally on industry. I did that because the All soy products are toxic to humans in raw or
auto and power industries have fought our right to cooked form and should not be eaten and here is
clean air with billions of dollars over the last 40 another reason not to consume soy.
years. Otherwise, we would have clean air because Organic Consumers Association states that
we would have technologies that are not dependent scientists claim they aren't sure how PBDEs get into
on oil and fossil fuels, or we would have technologies foods such as butter, cheeses, chicken, eggs, duck,
that cleaned the byproducts so they were not dis- fish and ice cream but they theorize that particles
persed into our environment. Industry fights clean air escape from carpets, furniture, computers and
sources so that those invested in coal and oil continue televisions into the air (out-gassing). Those micro-
to accumulate greater profits without having to spend particles fall to ground and water, and are inhaled by
much of it on pollution-prevention. animals including humans. Animals also consume
In our homes, there are many sources of toxins crops grown in soil polluted with PBDEs.
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bind it and prevent cellular damage. Animal studies provide increased sun-protection and as liner in
have shown that PBDEs alter hormonal function, canned and other food containers, especially fast-
change the development of reproductive organs, harm food packaging. Some references to PFOAs and
the nervous system, affect behavior including PFOSs are Chemicals in frying pan a potential hazard to
attention deficit disorders, and cause liver tumors. environment and Fluoropolymers may have harmful long-term
It was and is relatively ignored that when burned effects. PFOAs are suspected carcinogens only
in fires, PBDEs and other chemicals in products because the industry fights the debate like the
caused such airborne pollution that people hundreds tobacco industry argues that smoking does not cause
of miles from fires are rendered functionally helpless and promote cancers.
from breathing drifting smoke. Permanently or Another fluorochemical is perfluorooctanyl
temporarily, some chemically sensitive people could sulfonate (PFOSs). The 3M Company was the largest
not or cannot think rationally or coherently. Some are worldwide producer of PFOS chemicals but stopped
in a state of constant panic and fear, unable to manufacturing PFOSs in December 2000 because
perform normal everyday chores. Some cannot sleep PFOSs do not biodegrade. They persist in our
so they pace incessantly. Some smoke-inhalation environment and effect long-term damage to health
sufferers’ appetites are thrown into frenzy. and environment. Although 3M Company does not
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a mixture of manufacture PFOSs, PFOSs continue to be sold from
up to 209 individual chlorinated compounds. Most of the manufacturer’s stockpile of it. Any manufacturer
them are extremely toxic. There are no known natural who desires to utilize it in their products worldwide
sources of PCBs. Although PCBs are no longer may do so. PFOS were found in wildlife species
produced in the USA since 1970s, and have not been across the US, such as fish-eating birds, and in the
utilized since 1990s, they are still found in products Baltic region and in Sweden, and in human blood
produced elsewhere in the world, are imported into samples.
USA, and are in our environment. PFOSs accumulate to a high degree in humans and
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease animals. It has been estimated that PFOSs remain in
Registry's PCBs fact-sheet states numerous ways we the human body for up to 8 years. However,
are exposed to chemical cocktails: a) small amounts according to Dr. Frances Pottenger and Edward
of toxic chemicals outgas into our air when products Howell, toxins are often transferred to new cells for
get hot during operation and could be a source of skin up to 5 generations. That means that they could
exposure and inhalation, b)eating contaminated foods remain in humans for as little as 40 years in people
and drinking contaminated water, during repair and who eat a diet rich in raw fats and proteins, or a
maintenance of PCB transformers, c) accidents, fires lifetime in those who eat poor diets.
or spills involving transformers, fluorescent lights, In a 2-generation “reproductive effects” rat study,
and other electrical devices; and d) disposal of PCB- PFOS caused postnatal deaths and developmental
laced and other chemically laced products and effects in offspring. At higher doses in this study, all
materials. progeny in the first generation died. At extremely low
PCBs caused cancer in laboratory animals. Human doses, many progeny from the second generation
diseases associated with PCBs-exposure include died. It is very rare that the public is privy to reports
immunological and neurobehavioral changes in of such dire effects. Most often, those results are
children and acne-like skin conditions in adults. confidential to the industries that make and utilize
PCBs were found in over 500 of our most toxic 1,598 chemical hazards. Understand that I am addressing
sites on the Environmental Protection Agency's only few chemicals of the 80,000 that are or have
(EPA) National Priorities List. been produced globally.
Fluorochemicals (PFOAs) such as perfluorooc- Organochlorine pesticides, introduced in the1940s,
tanoic acid (PFOA) are used in non-stick coatings on persist in the environment long after they are applied,
cookware, as a stain repellent on clothing, carpets, in soil, environment and animals, including people
and upholstery, as undercoat on beach umbrellas to who eat food grown on or near application. They

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accumulate and levels build in the body daily, yearly. chemicals and their hazards are ignored.
People may be exposed to organochlorine pesticides In 2000, 3M Company removed perflouro-octanyl
by eating cooked fatty foods, such as pasteurized salphonate from Scotchgard because it caused
milk and dairy products, or fish that are contaminated reproductive problems in rats. It had also been found
with those pesticides (Center for Disease Control in high levels in urban wildlife. Rarely does a
(CDC) fact sheet). company who has polluted, or does pollute, suffer
Organochlorine pesticides may be absorbed by criminal or civil retribution. 3M Company did not
eating foods imported from countries that allow suffer for harm it did to humans and environment for
persistent pesticides usage. They are passed through perfloouro-octanyl. In fact, none of the chemical
placentas to unborn children and are passed by companies were charged and convicted of criminal
breastfeeding to infants. They are absorbed through behavior. They never admit to gross harm from the
skin and inhalation. worst chemicals, such as vaccines and dental
One organochlorine pesticide, lindane, is used to amalgams.
treat lice and scabies and is readily absorbed through It should also be a crime that companies can be
skin. They produce reproductive and neurological allowed to produce chemicals that are not tested and
effects in animals. People who work with organo- proved safe prior to usage. It may be very likely that
chlorine pesticides for years develop liver damage. all industrially produced chemicals cause harm to
Hold on to your panic button: organochlorines are environment and life just as there are side effects to
used to “purify” our environments, food and waters all medications.
of microbes, and to “clean” clothing and other Chlorine has been used for more than 100 years to
materials. disinfectant water under the false belief that microbes
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) include in water caused disease such as malaria. About 50
toluene, benzene, formaldehyde, ethyl benzene, years ago, it was discovered that that noble attempt to
styrene, acetone and a host of other chemicals, some offset infectious disease in public water supplies
of which have already made the EPA's list of caused disease. Since water is basically a solvent that
Extremely Hazardous Substances. Many can be disperses and gradually fractionates most objects
found in medication such as formaldehyde which is within it, when chlorine interacts in water, toxic
used in vaccines, perfumes and cosmetics. byproducts result that cause increased risk of certain
Other examples of pervasive VOCs contamination cancers, and birth and developmental defects. All of
and health hazards are mentioned in the report Toxic those hazardous results are ignored and combinations
Carpet: Dangerous Toxins that Live in Your Carpeting. of chlorine and ammonia and chlorine-dioxide
Known carcinogen p-Dichlorobenzene is in new (chloramines) and ozone are used to “disinfect” water
carpets, as are other chemicals that produce fetal and other items of our daily advanced modern
abnormalities in test animals. In humans, those society.
chemicals also cause hallucinations, nerve damage I have illustrated many times that microbes do not
and respiratory illness. Some of new-carpet odor is cause disease but the chemicals we use to destroy
outgassing of the chemical 4-PC that is associated microbes and make our lives sterile are disease-
with eye, nose and upper respiratory problems. Many causing. Toxic byproducts from chemicals used to
new carpet owners suffer from these for as much or disinfect public drinking water were named
as little as 5 years, depending on the individual. 4-PC Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs).
is used in latex backing of 95% of US carpets. It has been postulated that it is materials in water
Government and chemical industries seem to let us that react with chlorine and chloramines that cause
think that they are conscientious and caring in toxicity resulting in disease. However, some of that
regards to our health. Occasionally, they selectively debate is merely “legalese” to prevent successful
disseminate to the media that one specific chemical lawsuits, arguing that the companies cannot know the
has caused problems and that they have agreed to content of all water because they are all different.
discontinue USA production. The other 79,900 Most of the same diseases resulted when those

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substances were administered alone into laboratory the environment long after initial exposure. Most
animals. However, approximately 600 DBPs have plastics are treated with such chemical processes to
been identified since 1974 because of the combining prevent plastic from fungal molds. Fungi were the
of chlorine with substances that naturally occur in principal reason plastics were much delayed in
waters. manufacturing. Poisoning the environment was and is
Scientists believe they've identified about half the less of a concern than making plastics utilizable for
DBPs that occur in chlorine-treated water. They practically everything in our technically advanced
estimate they identified 17% of those occurring in lifestyles.
chloramine-treated water, 28% in chlorine-dioxide- Dioxins are known carcinogens. In fact, one
treated water, 8% of those produced in ozone-treated dioxin in particular, TCDD, is the most potent animal
water, and of the 600 structurally identified DBPs, carcinogen ever studied and has been linked to cancer
the toxicity factor is known for approximately 30%. in humans. We traded plastic conveniences and
Genetic toxicologist Michael Plewa, who headed a economy for deformed children, miscarriages, still
research team that examined DBPs in the public births and a myriad of diseases, just as we have
water, stated “This research says that when you go to traded “purified” water with the same results. Are we
alternatives, you may be opening a Pandora's box of happy or even content with those trades?
new DBPs, and these unregulated DBPs may be The military industrial complex is a grand user of
much more toxic, by orders of magnitude, than the dioxins such as in Agent Orange. Dioxins so
regulated ones we are trying to avoid.” Plewa's contaminate cellular structures that cells can no
research team that included 3 EPA employees longer perform normal metabolic detoxification.
discovered idoacetic acid (a DBP) in US drinking Resultantly, HIV-1 virus is activated in genes to
water treated with chloramine that when tested on perform detoxification; it does so very poorly.
samples of mammalian cells proved to be the most Dioxins, like most industrial chemicals, are virtually
genotoxic DBP ever reported. “These iodoacetic inescapable as they permeate our air, food, land and
acids raise new levels of concerns. Not only do they water.
represent a potential danger because of all the water Identifying merely 60 toxic chemicals in the
consumed on a daily basis, [that contaminated] water Canadian study fails to address the possible
is recycled back into the environment. What are the consequences of new chemicals and hazards resulting
consequences?” Plewa and his colleagues found that from environmental and bodily mixtures of those 60
in hamster cells, just one iodoacid they tested was chemicals. Yes, an even greater catastrophe is the
anywhere from 2-300 times more toxic than other fact that there are dire reactions from mixing and
chlorine byproducts. combining 80,000 industrially produced toxins within
Using chloramines as "safe" alternatives to chlorine our environment that enter our bodies.
for water purification has substantially increased lead Finally, to directly answer my subscriber’s
levels in some people. The chemical compounds used question about drinking water from plastic, I would
in purification, fluoridation and basic plumbing not drink water from plastic. Also, I remind readers
materials interact causing more hazards to our health. that I am against drinking much water. I rarely drink
Tetravalent lead scales have been found inside lead water because waters do not contain any bio-active
water pipes from several utilities. In a free chlorine nutrients to properly utilize H2O within cells. When I
solution, tetravalent lead is stable, but in the presence do drink water, it is from water bottled in glass.
of chloramine it dissolves into the water. (Experiment
confirms chloramine's effect on lead in drinking water.) We may easily conclude that even if we try to live
American Free Press highlighted “unhealthy cones- pure organic lifestyles, toxins are mostly unavoidable
quences” of chloraminated-water in Washington, DC; and inescapable because the bottom-line is business
Corpus Christi, Texas and San Francisco, CA. and profits not health or environment. Although we
Dioxins are created when chlorine and organic are frequently exposed every second to one or more
matter react in the presence of heat. Dioxins linger in industrially produced environmental toxins and have

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many accumulated within our bodies, eating my and 3-5 tablespoons coconut cream to bath water, and
Primal Diet will help remove them and bestow to us a fraction of all of those to dish water. Avoid showers
greater chances of preventing or reversing severe because there is presently no filter system that
diseases in a world where 1 of 2 men and 1 of 3 removes all the myriad of industrial toxins from
women gets cancers (Samuel Epstein, M.D.). We municipal waters. However, filtration systems are
need the best naturally grown raw, unheated-above- very helpful. Avoid cooked and processed food. Keep
96-degrees F. and non-frozen animal and other fats to plants that absorb toxicity in our homes to absorb
protect our cells from those industrial toxins. Raw many airborne pollutants. See Primal Diet newsletter
unpasteurized aged-in-wood apple cider vinegar for summer of 2007, dated June 9.
chelates with many industrial toxins and heavy I suggest that we do not use soaps for cleaning
metals. anything except laundry. Many “ecologically
Consuming small amounts of that vinegar, about 1 friendly” soaps and cleansers are not friendly to us or
tablespoon daily with or in one vegetable juices environment. They may contain on average 30%
mixture, or divided into several vegetable juices, biodegradable substances and the rest are the same
while eating a diet with plenty of raw fats mentioned chemical toxins used in commercial products. Yes,
above, helps remove industrial toxins including they are less toxic but they are not totally safe.
heavy metals gradually. However, the process of the The only company I have researched that utilizes
body utilizing vinegar to chelate with those toxins up to 93% biodegradable substances is BioKleen in
causes massive mineral losses. Minerals are utilized their Cleaner, not their laundry detergent. I use a
to further chelate and neutralize those toxins. Each tablespoon of BioKleen’s Cleaner for each load of
molecule of toxicity may require up to 200 molecules laundry. To clean my dishes, I simply use warm
of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and potassium to water with 2 tablespoons raw apple cider vinegar, 1
harness and neutralize it. tablespoon sea salt and 1 teaspoon coconut cream.
As much as possible, we need to prevent toxins For my body, I use fresh or fermented coconut cream
from entering our bodies. Avoid drinking water in that leaves my body moisturized and protected
any form that is not bottled in glass. Decontaminate against environmental toxins.
home water with filters by adding 3 tablespoons raw
apple cider vinegar, 2 tablespoons sun-dried sea salt ________________________________________

Subscriber’s question: Is Raw Milk Always Beneficial Even With Much Bacteria?
by aajonus vonderplanitz, phd nutrition

Hey Aajonus, The following news item about the notice at the beginning of any article. It should read:
dangers of raw milk appeared on Yahoo News “Writer is a researcher of available info and has been
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_us/r brainwashed to consider any academic view as
aw_milk_crackdown;_ylt=ArkdQ7.XlWYQSqXdcbe predominantly true and all others to be suspect.” We
lunla24cA What are your thoughts? (Subscribers should be able to sue them for tremendous penalties
name was lost in computer crash.) depending upon the probable damage to the public.
Aajonus: There was virtually no scientific research For details on the benefits and total safety of
conducted in that raw-milk article. The writer simply natural raw milk, please read my and Dr. Douglass’s
repeated past erroneous rhetoric produced by the Report In Favor of Natural Milk at
pasteurized dairy industry and microbe-phobic www.RawMilk.org or
individuals that has lingered since 1920s. There were http://www.wewant2live.com/site/811618/page/1755
at least 6 direct misrepresentations of facts in that 637 Both Dr. Douglass and I have consumed raw
article. Such non-journalists should have a warning milk from cows with unclean udders and teats. In the

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milk were mud, fecal matter and urine from the cows. when full of bacteria, I would be dead. In fact, all of
There were also flies and their fecal matter and urine the people who drank raw milk prior to modern
in the milk. I drank much of that kind of milk up to 2 milking equipment would be dead. Although such
weeks after milking and did not get indigestion, milk does not taste as our taste-buds have been
vomit or diarrhea. Instead, I felt much healthier. trained to enjoy, I often prefer high bacterial milk. I
As you will read in the report, most milk prior to find that it digests quickly and gives me more mental
modern milking equipment introduced in the 1950s clarity and focus. Today, it is relatively impossible to
contained very high levels of E.coli and many other acquire such bacteria-rich raw milk unless I milk the
bacteria, up to 3 million bacteria per gram. Infants, goat or cow by hand.
children and adults thrived on it. If it were unhealthy __________________________________________

Subscriber’s question: What Place Do Energy Therapies Take In Healing?

by aajonus vonderplanitz, phd nutrition

Dear Aajonus, There are many people who claim diet and heat, I would again seek their help.
that energy work can cure anything. What is your Yes, everything is made of electricity and light
experience? Debra, Birmingham, AL however, cells are GROWN over time to hold,
Aajonus: I have experienced favorable and harmful convey and generate bio-active energies. On this
energy therapists through my journey to optimal physical plane, without those structures (cells) there
health. I have seen many people further damage is no live self-sustaining manifestation, containment,
themselves because they were told (and believed, conveyance or generation of those energies.
without wisdom) that energy is more important than I have known thousands of people who had been
structures in this reality. That is, they were told misled to believe that energies are more important
energy is more important than the physical, including than cells. Acting on that belief resulted in no cures at
diet. They were told that if they controlled their all. It does not matter which came first, energy or
energy-producing thoughts, they could eat anything structure (cells). Once structures are formed, it is
without harm. relatively improbable that normal life and spiritual
Every energy worker and "master" who had energies can immediately restructure our cells. Time
disseminated that rhetoric did not prove it to me with and growth are prevalent in our reality.
their experience. None of them surmounted health Energies that can immediately alter physical matter
problems. All of them had worsened health problems are often those that can disrupt natural flows and
while adhering to that concept. Even the life-long- destroy. I have found that man-made mechanical
committed vegetarian Dali Lama dropped his energy devices generate non-bio-energies. Those
vegetarian dogma and began eating meat when his energies are usually in a large or small manner
health deterioration began to affect his daily destructive to living cells. I suggest that we consume
functions in his advancing years. Health-related raw foods and absorb sunshine to provide everything
miraculous events are exceptions and far removed that helps us re-energize ourselves, our cells.
from normal. The following is a miraculously natural event from
I have been health conscious as a health researcher Mother Earth’s kitchen of therapies that I discovered
for over 40 years. I experimented with all sorts of through trial and error. Renee Bentall, 47 years-
energetic modalities. They were relatively ineffective young at the time, caught one of her index fingers in
in making radical changes toward better health and a grinder. It was ground including bone. Not even
never created homeostasis because they did not one cell could be saved and reattached.
permanently change the structures (cells) that contain I advised Ms. Bentall to apply lime juice first to
and generate energy. open wound and surrounding area. Lime juice
I found several energetic practitioners who surrounds particles and dead cells of flesh, blood,
mitigated my pain and suffering for up to 3 days but lymph and nerves so that white blood cells would not
without cure. I was very grateful for their help. If I amass in the area that could complicate healing and
were in pain that I could not control on my own with re-growth. I suggested that she apply coconut cream
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over the lime juice, and apply unheated honey over tape it all loosely with adhesive gauze. The following
the coconut cream, then lay a very thin slice of fresh photos recorded her finger’s healing progress while
beef or buffalo steak over her finger’s open wound. I Renee’ adhered to my Primal Diet and followed my
asked her to cover the meat with a piece of coconut- advice for her finger. The first 2 photos were taken
cream-moistened gauze to prevent the meat from within 3 days of injury on 12 September 2007. The
drying and contracting her wound. I instructed her to third and fourth photos werre taken 6 November
place a piece of plastic the size of the gauze to cover 2007. The last 2 were taken 22 September 2008, one
the gauze and prevent the gauze from drying, then year after the incident.
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Until my next issue, I wish you happiness along with

radiant health.

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