In the long-running argument/debate/feud that has existed between those who subscribe to the Asklepian view (doctors, who try to fix things from the outside in), and Hygeans, who believe in strengthening the body's naturally present resources to successfully defeat any challenges to the body, there is a huge gap. Huge as in unbridgeable. Even as professors of medicine, including an unusually effective Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop;, or Dr. Andrew Weil, and so many other highly-qualified practicioners, move us all closer to the Hygean approach, too many more argue on behalf of externally-produced chemical and pharmacologic approaches to disease.   They make more money. That should be the end of the story.

One would think that a close look at the two syllables that comprise the word disease would suffice to guide us all towards making better, healthier decisions. Sad to say, humans still seek that lazy way out, relying on what they believe to be the fast-fix of chemical intervention, rather than enjoying more than the most superficial understanding that the "health" is from the Latin word that translates into English as "balance."

One of these days, the majority of people will understand just why a prescription is required for these chemical weapons used against disease and infection: in every single case, the drug is so dangerous it requires a doctor's signed order for its use. That's precisely what a prescription is. Without exception, every single prescription medicine has ancillary effects that are lethal or life-alteringly unpleasant. Otherwise a doctor's permission would not be required. The Asklepian view states that ridding the body of one disorder is well worth the occasional occurence of death, well worth the consistent production of secondary injuries caused by the medication.

Whether it's antibiotics, which work specifically by attacking the immune system in order to make it work harder, rendering our bodies vastly incapable of fighting off invaders naturally; or most of the topical treatments for skin disease, which have side effects such as destroyed liver function, renal impairment, or a host of drugs that have spawned resistant strains of bacteria that no longer respond to conventional treatment or the drugs that were invented to kill them off, the human race is now facing it's second great wave of medical challenge: how to change over, or, rather, to change BACK to the naturopathic route to wholeness, which is the actual translation and meaning of the word "healing."

For example, in a typical year in Haiti, a hundred or more people die each year from anthrax, which is a naturally occurring organism all around the world. Yet, when the US experienced a so-called "anthrax scare" in 2001, the deaths of five Americans caused hundreds of millions of dollars to be wasted addressing the issue, not to mention causing uneccessary panic and trepidation.

Included in that fritterance of fundage was the inoculation of two thousand individuals with the heaviest antibiotics known to man in hope of preventing their development of anthrax symptoms. Not only did they find out it had all been unnecessary over-precaution, they also learned that, for the rest of their lives they would have little or no auto-immune protection anymore, because antibiotics by definition destroy the body's immune system of immunosuppressants, antibodies, white cells, and more.

To speak of "more" is to realize that, more than at any time in history before or since the Black Plague which killed off forty percent of Europe's population in a short time, humankind needs urgently to wean off the chemicals, and move back to nutrition and health promotion products that occur naturally. "Naturally" means it grows in soil.

In every walk of our oldest civilizations, particularly the Oriental, natural and herbal approaches persistently and consistently outperform chemical approaches.

Look at the perfect example of cruciforms such as broccoli and cauliflower. Including these marvels of nature in your regular diet is irrefutably vital to fighting the onset of cancers and other oft-lethal assaulters of our natural wholeness. Fresh broccoli several times per week in your diet wields a greater impact and benefit than a dozen fat daily vitamin pills. Since broccoli sprouts have been shown to have 20x to 50x the sulfurophanes of a mature head of broccoli, it would certainly seem wise, particularly from the point of view of the Best Health Way Of Life, to include in our regular diet this fantastic natural medicine built into broccoli sprouts.

If you think that swallowing a washcloth might clean out some of the garbage in your human pipes, try eating lettuce or celery, good bran or shredded wheat, because they are fast, efficient tools for cleaning out plenty. At the top of such a list, the Best Health Way Of Life recommends arabo-galactin. Along with providing your intestine with a magnificent fiber that cleans in ways nothing else on earth can do, there is another huge benefit to arabo-galactin.

The double-value of arabo-galactin is found in the fact that arabo-galactin converts to butyrate in the intestines, and butyrate just happens to be the primary food of the intestine.

Additionally, the Best Health Way Of Life urges you to learn and take good note of the fact that, when you combine this amazing health shortcut with the primary set of Longevity shortcuts (more air, water, unheated oil, air-dried sea salt, and good bacteria such as is found in kefir), the results include rapid weight loss with concomitant increases in energy and strength, greater muscle tone and productivity, far stronger immune system, measurably faster, more creative thinking... ... and on and on and on... all from increasing fiber and water in your diet, EVEN IF YOU EAT LARGE AMOUNTS OF GARBAGE FOOD!.

Increasing the number of deep, really deep breaths you take each day, and the amount of water that you drink, not only cures several dozen different maladies in and of themselves, but as well, serve to boost immune function observably, and measurably.

There is no doubt that this will also boost your IQ by up to twenty or more points in a matter of weeks when you do at least ten proper respirations per day.

Proper deep breathing even influences your muscle tone, reduces sensitivity to cold, reduces heart rate and blood pressure, and most assuredly elevates your ability to construct solutions to challenges. For some of us, the most attractive feature of proper breathing is that it dramatically --- to the point of being revolutionary -- enhances and multiplies your creative responses to challenge. Ideas flow faster, smoother, and smarter than at any time in your life... right back to when you USED TO breathe properly as a child. More than any other dietary factors, one licit assay of why the learning curve of humans drops so much between childhood and post-adolescence is the reduction of oxygen feeding your brain on a daily, hourly, and minute-by-minute basis. That is why proper breathing is considered by all of the world's great masters to be the single most important and powerful tool available to a human.

How fascinating that it is also the one and only tool we cannot survive more than a few minutes without the benefit of its presence. Hmm. Now THAT is food for thought... more literally than you have recognized up until now. Let today be the day you alter that forever and for the better: YOUR better.

Did you know that anything and everything that is red which grows in the ground has a triple effect of being anti-carcenogic, immune-boosting, and anti-aging?

Eat these things regularly and feel for yourself what wonders they work when you are consistent about ingesting them. This shortcut doesn't even require a couple of months to kick in; only weeks or, for those who are also drinking larger amounts of water each day, just a matter of days for you to see your energy levels increasing, sleep requirements happily, restfully decreasing, as well as other great, observable benefits

Why waste your time looking for "quick and easy answers" when you know better? There are few circumstances where you can find an instant reverse from medicines, or even vitamins. Fresh fruits and vegetables, a gallon of water each day, and many, MANY more deep breaths of fresh air, even if it's relatively 'dirty' metropolitan air, all work individually AND corporately to provide you with a profoundly healthier physical environment in which to live, dream, and enjoy your turn on the carousel of life, with wholeness, balance... and health.

Even better, this approach does not take years, or even months to yield significant effect; it's generally just a day or three before you begin feeling more energy, more vitality, more problem-solving ability, so you need not take anyone's word for it: just do it and see for yourself. It's not even absolutely necessary that you eliminate the worst foods from your diet; only that you add more air, water, and ground-based items!

I realize you think this is great stuff, & applies to most people, but not you. Well, we have news for you. What you do speaks so loudly we can’t hear a word you’re saying. You can come away from this document pleased to have created a few better thoughts, or you can make it your business to read it again and then write down on a piece of paper three, four, perhaps five of the points most pertinent for you to remember towards acting upon.

That will leave only the question of what action you will take, and when.

You now enter the most powerful minute of your life.
 
What are you doing with it?