Survival Into The 21st Century part 4

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discarge were generally higher...on the first days it was three times

higher than normal values for venous blood. " Leukocyte count goes up

only when there is poisoning of the body.

Dr. Bieler, M.D.,in his excellent book, Natural Way To Sexual

Health, 1972, observes that: " Among one primitive people in the

australian bush country, WHO LIVE ENTIRELY ON FRUIT, THE MENSTRUAL

PERIOD LASTS ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES; approximately a tablespoon of

blood is expelled ...The women of the American Indian of the Great

Plains who lived on a simple diet and were exceedingly active, had a

short uncomplicated menstrual period, scarcely noticeable " .

If menstruation were a natural function, it would be present in

all healthy women. However, investigations show that unhealthy women

experience the longest menstrual period, and, as health improves,

menstrual discomfort diminishes. If a woman has not degenerated too

far, chooses her diet wisely, abstains from sexual activity, follows

an exercise program in fresh air, menstrual losses will continue to

diminish and in some cases, disappear altogether.

Dr.George Starr, M.D., claims menstruation is unnatural and

pathological. He has cured thousands of women of this discomfort so

that their periods were no longer bloody. He writes: " Nothing

influences a woman's monthly flow more than diet.Sometimes a woman

who flows profusely can be cured entirely by cutting down the diet

and living on raw food. Often persons will skip one or two months

when changing from heavy cooked food to raw food but they need not

worry about it " .

Havelock Ellis writes about a woman who suffered painful and

profuse menstruation on a meat diet and found menstruation and pain

almost completely vanished when she changed to vegetarian foods.,

Ellis quotes her: " Food too makes a difference. I find that if I take

two meat meals each day during the previous twenty-four to twenty-

eight days, the next menstrual shows more blood. On two occasions I

have lived on a vegetarian diet for three weeks and the flow has

decreased - almost ceased in fact. "

Dr. Schroyer feels that to reduce and end these discharges

(menstrual and leucorrheal) it is necessary to detoxefy the blood and

the intestinal tract, which is best accomplished on a low protein,

strictly vegerarian diet. This leads to re-establishing the

intestinal flora. Dr. Schroyuer believes that menstruation is a

product of pathological inflammation of the indometrium (mucous

lining of the uterus).

Arnlod Ehret claims that menstruation is due to a toxic

condition of the blood. He found that a low protein diet, mainly raw

vegetables and fruit, caused menstruation to take place at

progressively longer intervals until it finally disappeared. Ehret

writes: " If the female body is made perfectly clean through this

diet, menstruation ceases...every one of my female patients reported

their menses as becoming less and less - then two, three, four month

intermission and finally disappeared. "

This method of reducing menstruation works best in a female who

lives in chastity, free from uterine hyperemia caused by sexual

activity which can induce menstruation, regardless of diet. However,

as she rebuilds herself nutritionally through the mucusless diet, and

limits intercourse to a minimum, bleeding completely ceases.

 

Diet,

Menstruation and Fertility

There are quite a few studies of recovery of the potential for

reproduction after a period of inadequate nutrition. In protein-

deprived adult male rats, the seminal vesicles soon returned to

normal after the rats were fed a diet containing casein. Ovarian

maturation and function inhibited by underfeeding was renewed by

increased feeding, with a resultant return of reproducing capacity.

Dr.Alexis Haig writes on his experience with humans: " Excessive

loss at the period has been greatly influenced by the patient going

on a uric acid free diet.A remarkable and very interesting point with

regard to one or two of the cases was the tendency for the flow at a

period to be missed out all together. These last cases have since

married and had children without any trouble. Can it be that by

living on a more natural diet woman would have her periods correspond

then with those of other mammals (which are bloodless) " .

Dr. Israel, M.D. writes that in his practice he has run into

some cases where the females do not menstruate but do conceive. He

writes: " It is absent in the few WOMEN WHO NEVER MENSTRUATE BUT

NEVERTHELESS BEAR CHILDREN and show on repeated biopsies, cyclic

endometrial changes identical with those of menstruating women " .

The following are studies of larger scope. " Severe general under-

nutrition may produce amenorrhea (cessation of menstruation) and

infertility. In Rotterdam during the period of gross malnutrition

from Dec. 1944 to May 1945, fifty percent of the women had amenorrhea

and the weekly conception rate fell from a prewar figure of 206 to

93 " . However, the difference in fertility could have been due to war

and the absence of men. Millis in another study, found no evidence of

reduced fertility in Singapore during a period of general under-

nutrition in 1947.

The conclusions one can draw from these two studies is that

general undernutrition does not necessarily lead to infertility. As a

matter of fact, a diet adequate in vitamins, minerals and sunshine,

though low in protein, fat and carbohydrates, can provide all

nutrients needed for the birth of healthy children. The , Hunzas,

Georgians and Equadorians who eat a diet low in protein, but

otherwise adequate, have been around for thousands of years and show

no loss in fertility.

 

Minstruation,

Fertility and War

Whitacre and Barrera state: " Duting war and in other situations

where starvation conditions existed, amenorrhea is common " .

Hommberg found that before the war, out of 1356 patients

observed, only 9 percent of the cases were amenorrhea, In 1917 there

was a rise to five percent and in 1918 to nine percent. German

physicians attributed this to " defective nutrition, underfeeding,

physical starvation, exposure to cold and wet, enforced celibacy. "

Rubner, in his report on under-nutrition in Germany during the

World War blockade stated that on reduced rations, (31 gm. protein),

a cessation of menstruation occurred with many women. Strickel found

that, during 1917, cases of amenorrhea were seven times more frequent

at Charite Frauenklinic, Berlin than before the war.

 

 

Menopause

If a woman has taken steps to stop the monthly loss of body

fluids at an early enough age, the ovaries will continue to function

throughout life with reproductive capacity persistent into centuries.

In a healthy woman, menopause occurs, if at all, quite late in life.

Dr. Bieler writes: " The normal menopause in the healthy woman is

almost symptomless. But the toxic female who has had relief from the

burden of her poisons through menstrual channels truly suffers as a

whole series of new ailments arise " menopausal hot flashes, extreme

nervousness, headache, arthritis neuritis. gastric and intestinal

indegestion, weakness and prostration, irritating vaginal descharge,

palpitation of the heart, shortness of breath " (NATURAL WAY TO SEXUAL

HEALTH, p. 176).

" For the patient suffering from milder disturbances of

menstruation and menopause, much relief can be offered ...by limiting

the diet for one or two days just before the period begins Urine

tests will indicate whether the toxins are protein or starch and

sugar related. If the latter, then the appropriate antidote is an

acidic cleanser consisting of diluted fruit juices taken every hour.

If protein acids are the offenders, an alkaline base such as diluted

raw vegetable juice or vegetable soup (without meat) is prescribed " .