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DR. DOUGLAS N. GRAHAM
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Hygiene is defined in Blakistons New Gould Medical Dictionary as
The science that treats of the laws of health and methods of their
observation. The word hygiene is based in Greek mythology; Hygeia
was the Greek goddess of health. Today, a hygienist is one who is
trained in the science of health.
The worldwide Natural Hygiene movement is peopled by millions of
health enthusiasts. Hygienically trained professionals specialize in the
creation of health, as distinct from the treatment of disease and
elimination of symptoms. They offer lifestyle and nutritional guidance in
a manner that enables each health seeker to achieve and maintain his or
her highest possible level of well-being. This is accomplished through:
Education as to the causes of ill health.
Instruction regarding the conditions necessary for creating and
maintaining optimal health.
Assistance with the processes of change required to develop healthy
dietary and lifestyle habits.
Supervision of fasting and post-fast realimentation (the resumption of
feeding).

You cannot break the laws of nature;
you can only prove them.
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Fasting is a period of comprehensive, maximal rest augmented by
abstinence from all foods. Water is consumed in sufficient quantity to
satisfy thirst and physiological requirements. Fasting is not starving; it is
a natural process and therefore not to be feared. During a fast, a person
literally lives from his or her reserves, consuming excess fats and waste
proteins and converting them as necessary to glucose for fuel. Vital
tissues, such as brain, nerve, heart, liver, kidneys, and so forth, remain
virtually untouched.
When fasting, a person experiences healing at a rate that is swifter than
normal. He or she is ridding the body of toxins and excesses, allowing the
body to use its own wisdom to healthfully reorganize itself from the
cellular level up. As the toxic load is reduced, the functioning of every cell
is enhanced. The detoxification process happens most efficiently and
effectively when it is accompanied by fasting.
Vital nerve energy is accumulated during our nightly sleep. This
period of concentrated rest has been considered a mini-fast for centuries;
we break the fast with our first meal, and we call it breakfast.
During a fast, rest and sleep are the biggest factors in enhancing
healing. It is only when the body is at rest that it is able to direct the
maximum energy toward the various chemical and mechanical processes
of detoxification associated with recovery from dis-ease.

Hunger, like thirst, is experienced in the mouth.
It is a sensation few of us have ever experienced.
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The faster is encouraged to participate in all forms of rest: physical,
sensory, emotional, and physiological.
Physical Rest
Physical rest means that the faster participates in no physical activity other
than that which is required for personal hygiene. Bed rest is the rule during
fasts of long duration. During a fast, energy that normally activates our
muscles is diverted to the organs of detoxification. The production of lactic
acid and other metabolic acids formed during activity hinders the progress
of the fast.
The body, when enervated (weakened and fatigued), accumulates
acids faster than it can eliminate them. This hyperacidity, called acid
toxemia, is reduced during fasting, as the primary sources of the acidity
muscular activity and dietary intakeare eliminated.
Sensory Rest
Sensory rest entails a reduction in the amount of sensory stimuli to which
we are subjected. As we are visual creatures, simply closing our eyes
dramatically reduces the amount of input to the brain. Being in a quiet,
peaceful location also lowers the amount of input, and this is an
important consideration in choosing a location for fasting.

The body heals itself most rapidly while fasting.
A person can often recover from a lifetime of abuse in
just a few weeks. That is why we call it a fast.

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Body energy that could otherwise be directed toward elimination of
toxins and improvement of metabolic functions is less available for the
task when forced to recognize and organize outside stimuli. Elimination
of television and other entertainment media, reading material, and even
quiet conversation, all greatly reduce sensory stimulation and thus
maximize the benefits of the fast.
Emotional Rest
Emotional rest accrues as the faster lets go of his or her worries for a
time and allows the fasting supervisor and staff to share in his or her care
decisions. Separation from the responsibilities of work, household,
family, and friends allows the faster the opportunity to develop emo-
tional poise through introspection, visualization, affirmation, and
meditation. Supportive relationships, friendly staff, and a caring
supervisor all make it easier for the faster to rest without worry.
Emotional rest accumulates as the faster becomes increasingly
confident that through fasting he or she is doing all that need be done to
get wellin fact, all that can be doneand that day by day health is,
indeed, being acquired.

Excessive feasting leads to the need for fasting.

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Physiological Rest
Physiological rest is achieved by reducing caloric intake, and thus
digestive activity, to zero. The organs of digestion require more fuel than
any other single physiological process, except strenuous physical
activity. Upwards of fifty percent of the total blood supply can be sent to
the organs of digestion when a heavy or complex meal has been
consumed. The digestive process is so energy intensive that it is easy to
understand why people often feel tired after eating.
Your mother may have told you not to go swimming after eating
because you would get cramps. She was correct: when the body directs
blood to the digestive tract, insufficient blood remains to also supply the
muscles.

Good eating habits never result in indigestion.

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Health is the natural state of humankind. Provided with the essentials of
life and healthful conditions, the body will heal itself. By striving to as-
sert homeostasis (a state of equilibrium), the body is always vectoring
toward improved health.
Symptoms are indicators that all is not right with the conditions the
body is experiencing. Anyone who is displaying symptoms, minor or
severe, acute or chronic, is a likely candidate for a fast. When a person is
upset, tired, nauseous, feverish, congested, has indigestion, or is just not
feeling like him or herself, a fast is indicated.
Such a fast may entail nothing more than skipping a single meal. For
instance, if you are more tired than hungry, you should sleep rather than eat.
If you awaken in the morning still full, or have stomach upset from the
previous night, forgoing a meal or two will quickly set things right.
However, chronic symptoms and/or progressive degenerative conditions
often call for fasts of longer duration in order to conserve vital energy,
restore metabolic homeostasis, and reinstate health.
Children who go to bed with a fever and no appetite usually recover in
a day or two. A fast offers an adult-sized portion of rest and sleep, which is
usually all that is required for the return of health. We tend to fall behind
on rest and sleep, never quite recovering from yesterday. The resulting
gradual enervation leads to an accumulation of wastes in the body, once
again resulting in the condition known as acid toxemia.

If you quit taking care of your health,
it will go away.

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Metabolic homeostasis is the baseline indicator of balance between
anabolism (the creation of complex structures from simpler ones) and
catabolism (the creation of simple structures from more complex ones).
Growth and repair occur when anabolism outstrips catabolism. Decrepi-
tude ensues when catabolism outruns anabolism.
Fasting is the quickest and surest method of reestablishing metabolic
homeostasis (stability) in most situations. (In case of a life-threatening
emergency or other acute trauma, medical intervention may also be
indicated).
Drugs can effectively suppress symptoms, often more rapidly than
the body can reduce them through the initiation of a fast. However, drugs
do not address the cause of the problem, as fasting does. When
homeostasis is breached, a fast is appropriate.

All drugs are poisonous.
One cannot be poisoned into health.

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The duration of the fast is subject to many factors, among them age,
weight, general fitness and vitality levels, health-supporting and health-
destroying lifestyle habits, and emotional outlook. Of primary concern
are the number and degree of compromises to homeostasis.
Fasters must be monitored a minimum of once daily, and during
times of healing crisis, almost constantly. Fasting is always considered a
day-to-day event. A fasting supervisor should not generically recom-
mend a twenty-one day fast, for example, but should monitor the faster
one day at a time and make decisions accordingly.
When a person with rheumatoid arthritis comes to fast, the supervisor
may recommend a given number of days of fasting, based on previous
experience with people who had similar histories. We must remember at all
times, however, that the body is a self-regulating and self-healing organism
with its own intelligence and its own agenda. In its innate wisdom, the body
always attends to our conditions in order of priority, addressing first those
conditions that will kill us and only then turning its healing energy to
sources of pain and discomfort.
The health seeker may embark upon a fast with an intention for his
or her rheumatoid arthritis to heal quickly, but dealing with those factors
specific to rheumatoid arthritis may be twelfth on the bodys list of items
to address.

The time to fast is when there is no time for it.
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Fasts of more than twenty-four hours bring humans through a wide range
of physiological changes. These may include, but are certainly not limited
to:
Passage from normal glycolysis metabolism (the breakdown of glu-
cose) to gluconeogenesis (the creation of new glucose from fat).
Increased specific gravity of the urine, due to the additional quantities
of solid wastes being eliminated.
An exceptionally high level of ketone bodies in the blood (alcohol-like
substances that occur with the gluconeogenesis of fats).
An abnormally high level of serum cholesterol. This temporary
condition represents the clearing of cholesterol from blood vessel
walls and is not considered hazardous.
Lower-than-normal blood pressure, with possible dizziness, resulting
from lowered levels of mineral salts.
A slowed respiratory rate. This is considered normal when the body
is at rest.
A slowed pulse. This is another indicator that the body is in a state of
deep rest.

Overcome a lifetime of slow death lifestyle habits
with a bit of fast living.

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Steady but low blood sugar. While fasting, the wisdom of the body
produces as much sugar from fat as is necessary to maintain life and
continue the processes of detoxification.
Various physiological rebound phenomena, also referred to as
oversteering. These are efforts to make up for both deficiencies and
oversufficiencies (examples might be long periods of sleep to
compensate for a chronic lack of sleep or eating monomeals to
compensate for dietary excess). Withdrawal symptoms from toxic
substances also qualify as rebound reactions.
Weight loss. As much as ten to twenty pounds may be lost during the
first week, five to seven the second, and two to three during subsequent
weeks. Fasters forgo daily calorie intake, while continuing to use
calories (perhaps 1,000 to 1,500) for basal metabolic function. However,
the rapid early loss results largely from releasing water weight, held by
the body to dilute stored toxins. In cases of morbid obesity, weight loss
can be more extreme.
Increased awareness. The functioning and sensitivity of all the senses
is heightened during the fast. Most notable is sense of smell; however,
vision, hearing, taste, and touch all tend to improve dramatically, as do
other nerve-related physical functions, such as balance, coordination,
kinesthetic awareness, and reflexes.

Every great religious leader in history
fasted for clarity of mind.
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Lowered (toward normal) pulse pressure. This is the difference
between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and it reflects the elas-
ticity of the arteries. As arteries become more elastic, pulse pressure
falls.
Consult with your hygienic professional for fasting supervision and
hygienic education. You will benefit greatly by incorporating Natural
Hygiene into your life. You will develop healthy lifestyle habits, learn to
expect high levels of health without the insult of drugs or surgery, and
come to appreciate symptoms occur as early warnings of incorrect living.



See you in the fast lane.

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Dr. Douglas Graham, a lifetime athlete and 30
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year raw vegan, is an
advisor to elite athletes and trainers from around the globe. He has
worked professionally with top performers from almost every sport and
field of entertainment, revitalizing and extending their careers through
nutrition, lifestyle, and his unique brand of fitness training.
Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern raw movement, Dr.
Graham has shared his strategies for success with audiences at more than
4,000 events and gatherings worldwide. He gives keynote presentations
and seminars guaranteed to educate, motivate, and inspire. He has served
on the boards of over a dozen international health organizations.
Dr. Graham is the creator of Simply Delicious cuisine and director
of Health & Fitness Week, an annual event that provides world-class
training and nutritional guidance to people of all fitness levels in
beautiful settings around the world. He is living proof that eating whole,
fresh, ripe, raw, organic food is the nutritional way to vibrant health and
vitality.

DR. DOUGLAS N. GRAHAM

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