Lose Weight, Have More Energy and Be Happier in 10 Days. Peter Glickman

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      There is another experiment in life extension that is seldom mentioned, but it reveals another reason that calorie restriction works to extend life. Besides, it is a great story.

The Chicken Heart that Lived Forever

      On January 17, 1912, a Nobel-prize-winning surgeon, Alexis Carrel, extracted a tiny piece of heart muscle from a chicken embryo and placed it in fresh nutrient solution. In order to remove the metabolic wastes constantly being generated by it, every forty-eight hours he would transfer it to a new flask with a fresh, clean bath of nutrients. Because it grew, the heart muscle had to be regularly trimmed before being moved to its next flask. Thirty years later the tissue was still growing! Keep in mind that the average chicken lives for five to seven years, twenty years being the longest.

      When Carrel died in 1944, the tissue was still living. It continued to live until April 1946, when the experiment was deliberately ended.³⁷ Later scientists have not been able to repeat this experiment with the same results, but no one argues that the chicken heart lived for thirty-four years.

      This experiment points out the importance of eliminating metabolic wastes, which are by-products of digestion and other normal body functions. They are toxic and must be eliminated; for example, digestion of animal protein produces uric acid which must be eliminated in the urine. Shelton even gives laboratory reports of the amount of toxins eliminated on fasts in The Science and Fine Art of Fasting.³⁸

      I have heard people say there is no need for cleansing because the body’s elimination systems normally handle that. That may be true for someone who always exercises, drinks plenty of water, eats plenty of vegetables every day and never smokes, drinks, eats junk food nor over-eats. However, I have never met such a person.

      Most people have a backlog of waste that the body’s elimination systems will handle if given the chance. Giving it that chance means a regular period of restricting the quantity and type of food (no junk food, for instance), and can include water fasting, juice fasting or living on a restricted diet of healthy food only.

My Experience with the Master Cleanse

      I always feel younger when I am on the Master Cleanse and I frequently hear from people doing the Master Cleanse that their friends say they look ten years younger. A few years ago while I was on the Master Cleanse, I took my grandson, who was probably seven at the time, to the park and we played tag. I was running all around and having a good time. Two somewhat older children watched us for a while and then joined us in the game and we all had a good time. Afterward, my grandson said something to me and called me by his nickname for me, “Pepa,” pronounced “Pee-Pa.” The other boys asked what that was and I told them it meant “Grandfather.” They refused to believe it. They said grandparents just do not run around and play tag. I guess their grandparents did not know about the Master Cleanse.

      My point is that the Master Cleanse done three or four times a year as recommended by Stanley Burroughs, the developer of the Master Cleanse, acts as intermittent fasting. In between cleanses, he recommends a vegetarian diet that excludes meat, dairy, fish and processed foods.³⁹ Such a diet, especially one that includes lots of green leafy vegetables, would resupply the body with the alkaline minerals necessary to neutralize the acidic toxins that are first mobilized from the fat cells and connective tissue, then neutralized in the liver and finally eliminated.

What About Protein, Vitamins and Minerals?

      Allan Cott, M.D., wrote a million-copy, bestselling book in 1975 called Fasting: The Ultimate Diet. He followed it two years later with Fasting as a Way of Life. Because of the feedback he had received from his first book, he wrote, “If disparaging doctors would take the time to examine the evidence […], they would finally stop warning of ‘dangers’ that simply do not exist for most people.”⁴⁰

      The average person has enough nutritional reserves of all kinds to fast (water only) for at least a month.^{41,42,43,44,45} So, doing a Master Cleanse for ten days or more is no problem for most people.

      The need for protein is greatly exaggerated in our society. How many people do you know personally with the following symptoms of protein deficiency: apathy, a swollen belly (not fat, just swollen), swollen legs, stunted growth, flaky skin and mental retardation? Have you seen many people around you that have those symptoms?

      More likely, you have seen people with mental fogginess, headaches, dehydration, and a higher risk of osteoporosis, heart disease and cancer. Would you be surprised to learn those are the symptoms of too much protein?

The Future

      Thomas Edison was a remarkable man. He imagined recording a performance and being able to hear it again later. Then he invented the phonograph. He imagined being able to create light in the darkness. Then he invented the electric light and all the other necessary items to provide electricity to cities. He imagined being able to record pictures that moved. Then he invented the motion picture camera. Edison observed the medical system of his day, drawing the following conclusion (as reported in articles from late 1902 and early 1903⁴⁶):

       “The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

      Thomas Edison

      The future is here. Use what you know about nutrition to extend your life and health.

       Part III:

       How to Do the Master Cleanse

Shopping List

      IMPORTANT NOTE: These quantities are based on six glasses of lemonade per day for the minimum of ten days. You should drink six to twelve glasses of lemonade per day. So, you may have to multiply these quantities if you drink more glasses per day or go longer than ten days.

      • Books: Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days by Peter Glickman and/or The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs

      • 30 large lemons, 60 limes or small lemons, or a combination. Only buy half this amount and the other half later, if you buy organic, which is СКАЧАТЬ