REPOST - Supplements and The Law of Stimulation (LSHS, Natural Hygiene, Shelton)

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I’ve just reposted this in Path of Health, and thought others here

might also enjoy it.

 

 

 

Supplements

 

 

 

From LSHS, Part VIII: Harmful Practices to avoid, Lesson Thirty-Nine - Food

Supplements

 

(Instructors for the lesson were Robert W. McCarter, Ph.D. and Elizabeth D.

McCarter, D.Sc. and a quick, interesting historical side note: Robert W.

McCarter was one of the assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the

late 1920s, working with Dr. C.G. King when they isolated Vitamin C)

 

Salient Facts:

 

1. The use of supplements in the diet is a new concept in the history of

mankind;

 

2. When he uses supplementary substances, man is participating in the

largest nutritional experiment in the long history of the human race, the

results of which is not in nor ready for evaluation. [bob note: note that

this was written probably 20+ years ago now...]

 

3. Since it takes four or five generations to evaluate the effectiveness of

a particular diet, the value of supplementation is, lacking the proof,

subject to question.

 

4. The great increase in chronic degenerative catastrophic diseases in

recent years would appear to negate the well-touted concept that using

supplements is beneficial.

 

5. The manufacture and sale of supplements has replaced the old patent

medicine business and is now one of the ten largest businesses in the U.S.

[bob note: it may be even higher now...]

 

Other things I found interesting in this lesson:

 

 

 

Unchanging Principles Govern Life

 

 

 

Hygienists unequivocally hold that a general law under grids life, one

deprived from physiology and biology and that we cannot escape the rule of

law either in our eating or in our living, if we would retain our health.

If we would escape the degenerative diseases that plague the vast majority

of people, we must learn not only what we should do but also what we must

not do. When the laws of life are ignored and possibly defied, due

accounting will be required of us and, more often than not, such accounting

will result in the rapid of more subtle erosion of health according to the

inherited constitution and the extensiveness and intensiveness of the

infractions of physiological and biological order. "

 

 

 

" Food is any substance which can be used by the organism, in this case man,

to make blood, formulate secretions, construct bones and ligaments and build

tissues and nerves without adding anything that might prove over

stimulating, exciting, irritating to the cells or destructive thereof, or

obstructive, to function. "

 

 

 

Enzymes: " At about 94 degrees, food enzymes start to lose their

effectiveness, their ability to fulfill their catalytic duties and at about

118 degrees, they are no longer of any use. At the other end of the scale,

they start to become inactive at about 32 degrees and seem to be totally

destroyed at minus 104 Fahrenheit. This it is that baking, boiling, frying,

stewing, roasting, heating of any kind, dehydrating and freezing will either

reduce or completely destroy the enzymatic presence in food. "

 

 

 

" One is a real student of health when he understands this one absolute of

life: foods have been prepared for man, but only certain foods; man's

natural food contains all that he requires to

 

keep him living in full health provided his lifestyle and environment are

also conducive to health. Dr. Shelton reminds us that " nature is the

author and ruler of all health and happiness, not the physician. "

 

 

 

It gave decent definitions of toxemia, enervation and irritability.

(if interested, I could post those another time...)

 

" Irritability may be defined as that ability to take self preservative

action in the face of adverse influences. Such actions are often labeled

'disease'. Therapeutics is the art of altering the expression of the

organism's irritability. We do not die from disease (our body's

functioning) but from toxemia; from the causes of toxemia. To a large

extent the body protects itself - but constant dripping wears away the

stone. Any program of care that does not remove the causes of toxemia is

not rewarded with health, for the body by virtue of its irritability will

not cease to be 'sick', to be " diseased', to remove, or to accommodate

toxemia until success or death. If the need for disease is not removed,

health will not ensue. This is another Hygienic principle. To seek,

identify, and remove the causes of toxemia is the constant aim of the

Hygienist. The causes of toxemia and enervation are largely exogenous (i.e.,

from outside the body)... "

 

 

 

The Law of Stimulation

 

 

 

This is reprinted from Lesson Four of the LSHS, " Decision for Health, "

SUPERIOR LIFE MANAGEMENT by Drs. Robert and Elizabeth McCarter, 1980.

Bionomics Health Research Institute, Tucson, AZ.

 

 

 

… " We call anything which causes this increased action on the part of the

body, a Stimulant " . Of course, the immediate effect of the stimulant is

that which is most evident, that the stimulant is working and doing " good " .

This feeling of well-being is only temporary, however, since while the

stimulant appears to do good, it is actually doing harm, the extent of the

harm done dependent upon, and in a precise ratio to, the amount of power

called into play to produce the accelerated response, the feeling of

well-being, of euphoria. This is the Law of Stimulation. It reveals the

physiological consequences of false deception. It pertains to all

stimulants: drugs (vitamins, etc.), coffee, tea, cocoa, alcohol, nicotine

....the effect of many of these stimulants being extremely exciting; and also

to lesser ones such as the various herbs, onions, garlic and the like. All

appear to do good, but all perform a disservice to the body in that they do

lasting harm, the harm being due to the fact that they reach into the body's

energy reserves to accomplish the good they appear to do and offer nothing

in return which is of lasting value.

 

 

 

Their efforts are cumulative and remain with the person who employs them.

The sense of euphoria occasioned by their use is always followed, in time,

by a depression due to the expenditure of power required, as we have seen,

to bring about the exhilaration in the first instance.

 

 

 

Certain stimulants are said to 'act' on certain parts of the body as, for

example, digitalis is said to 'act' on the heart. The exact opposite is

true. In this case, the heart is already weak and the digitalis only serves

to weaken it further. All stimulants are useless to the body. They cannot

become part of the body; they cannot be turned into blood, flesh, or bone.

They present an encumbrance to body action and, for this reason, a threat to

efficiency and a hindrance to perfection. "

 

 

 

" ...The constant use of coffee, drugs, vitamins, even herbs, will slowly, or

rapidly, destroys the essence of life as they are used and according to the

inherited constitution of the user. " " ..Sleep restores the energy bank "

 

 

 

" Herbert M. Shelton states the Law of Stimulation as follows: 'Under all

circumstances, vitality of energy of any character whatever is invariably

manifested or noticed by us, as energy, in its expenditure, never in its

accumulation. "

 

 

 

This lesson was helpful to me in better understanding any

supplements/stimulations, and how their effects are exactly opposite from

what they seem!! And, I hope some of these extractions provide some insight

to others.

 

 

 

All the best,

 

Bob

 

 

 

 

 

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