Become Healthy or… Extinct! In pursuit of symbiosis with Mother Earth A book on health, nutrition and metaphysics of the human body that teaches how to cure chronic illness without medication Written by Therapist & Alchemist Darryl D’Souza First Edition: 11th November 2011 Second Edition: 21st February 2012 Third Edition: 31st March 2013 Fourth Edition: 14th February 2014 Become Healthy or Extinct Preface What is the most valuable thing in the world today? Riches, Assets or Resources? Food, Water, or Electricity? People, Technology or Information? You may choose none of the above and instead say that it is peace of mind, perhaps because that is becoming rarer by the day. We always tend to value something more when it starts slipping away from our hands. There are a growing number of people who say it is health, because if you do not have health, none of the above really matters. If you are not healthy, you have to spend a lot of time as well as money to fix your health. You have to subject your body to medicines, regular exercise and a special diet. As you get busy doing all of this, you lose time, energy and opportunities to do other things, such as work, making money, spending time with your family and friends, recreation, travelling, entertainment and pursuing your hobbies. But if you are healthy and have vibrant energy every day of your life, you can draw on these two resources to fulfil all your needs to the max. So, yes, health is a very important aspect of life that should always take precedence no matter what. If you let your health go down the drain, a time will come in your life, when you will struggle every day just to remain healthy, and that is when most other things won‟t matter. With so many changes happening in the world today, we see a rapid decline in the quantity as well as quality of many of our natural resources such as food, water and the environment, which are in turn, dragging down our health, at a faster rate than what we can cope with. The title of this book, “Become Healthy or… Extinct” may appear a bit radical at first, but its reality will slowly dawn on your awareness once you are halfway through it. Take a brief look at the average health of people across the world today and see where it is headed. Till about a century ago, chronic illness (an indicator of the diseased state of the human being) was not a common occurrence till the age of 50 years. However, if you look at averages in the world today (2014), you will see that chronic illness has started manifesting as early as at the age of 35 years. In some cultures that follow unhealthy lifestyles, chronic illnesses such as obesity, hormonal imbalance, indigestion, gastric problems, blood impurities, allergies, asthma, sinusitis, skin problems, migraines, eye problems, thyroid problems, lung problems, diabetes, vitamin 3 Become Healthy or Extinct deficiency and autoimmune disorders have started manifesting at the age of 25 years itself. So from a state of good health up till 50 years of age just a century back, we barely manage good health till the age of 25 nowadays. If it took 100 years to manifest chronic illness 25 years earlier in life, could we in another 100 years, have chronic illness at birth itself? If that is not alarming enough, let us take a more realistic view of the situation. The rate of this degradation of the human body has in fact accelerated exponentially in the last 15 years. If you are truly aware of the present rate at which all of our sources of food, water and environment are getting contaminated and the way chronic illness is getting a hold of our younger populations, you will begin to see that chronic illness at birth itself will be the norm for every child within the next 20 years! Can you estimate the survival chances of a baby born with the illnesses that are listed above? Bringing up a child who has incurable or chronic illness right from birth is a very extended, trying and exhausting experience. There are people who have been through the ordeal, and they wish it for no one else. Would this not mean that in another 20 years every parent would be faced with a grim choice of whether they really want to have a child? This scenario will mark the beginning of the extinction phase of the human race, because an increasing number of people will choose not to have any children at that time. Human life would not be worth it, so as to say. If you feel like passing this off as just a theory right now, know that your inaction with every passing day will only make it more real. Do you think that the medical and healthcare system is capable of reversing this trend? Evidently, they have been on this job for decades, but do you see it getting done? Now it is actually getting done for a few smart people, but what about you and your family? Are you still going to keep the fate of your survival in someone else‟s hands? If your prompt answer is “Yes, because I do not know what else to do”, you better read every page of this book, because this choice of yours is a road travelled by many that invariably reaches a dead end! 4 Become Healthy or Extinct Think about this for a while. What do you think you have more power over? Enforcing quick changes in the present global systems of bad food, water and environment? OR Making changes in your own daily choices? The latter, I think, because even the most powerful individuals on this planet cannot effect quick changes in the quality of resources just by their own personal will. Even if we all put in efforts, it would take years for entire systems to change. Do you think you have so much time at hand? Now what you really do have, is the power to make daily choices that will develop your own body‟s strength and immunity, which will in turn, fight the degradation caused by the external factors not under your control. You will be amazed that this is a capacity that you can develop within a few months. I have written this book to give you the knowledge that will build this capacity Of course, changing the system for better is what we all must constantly work towards, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort to do so. Leave aside the “how” of this aspect for now, because by the time you complete reading this book, you will have a lot of clarity on that as well. The scary possibility of becoming extinct will certainly not be there for some people, who have found ways of being in the best of health, effortlessly, even till the age of 50 years. They even think that they will live in good health till about 100 years and may even see ripe old ages of 150. I count myself in this club, and I hope you are tempted to come join it too. There are a lot of interesting things that you can do in a 150 years, but you will discover them only once you start living it. The truth is that the human body is designed to be in a growth phase till 50 years of age, and so also, perfectly healthy with no signs of aging till this time. Now this assertion may sound radical, if you‟ve long held the wrong notion that the human body has a growth phase that lasts for about 25 years, followed by a plateau phase till about 40 years of age, after which a phase of decline is imminent. Further in this book, I explain why complete human growth is not over till the age of 50 years. Before that however, I will show you how to become healthier with every passing day of your life. Now that, I‟m sure, is something you want to start understanding right away! Darryl D‟Souza 14th February 2014 5 Become Healthy or Extinct 6 Become Healthy or Extinct INDEX How I came to write this book ................................................................... 9 An introduction to this book ....................................................................12 A Reality Check .........................................................................................16 Causes of Chronic Illness and Disease ...................................................22 The Human Body ......................................................................................29 Laws of Nature ..........................................................................................38 The right balance of Food ........................................................................50 Living Food ...............................................................................................62 Cooking .....................................................................................................65 Acidity and Alkalinity ................................................................................69 Acidic-Alkaline Foods Chart ....................................................................74 Juicing .......................................................................................................79 Free Radicals and Antioxidants ...............................................................89 Digestion ...................................................................................................96 Laws of the Human Body ....................................................................... 102 Food Combination .................................................................................. 106 Eat right for your Constitution ............................................................... 111 Common Foods that ruin our Health ..................................................... 114 Organic Food........................................................................................... 138 Antibiotics ............................................................................................... 140 Probiotics ................................................................................................ 142 Supplements ........................................................................................... 145 Healthy Choices ...................................................................................... 147 Metaphysics of The Human Body .......................................................... 151 The Natural Health Therapy .................................................................... 169 Exercise for Good Health ....................................................................... 173 Your Body is Unique ............................................................................... 176 Going Vegetarian .................................................................................... 178 The Healing Therapies ............................................................................ 180 The 5 Elements Therapy ......................................................................... 181 Mind over Matter ..................................................................................... 197 Cleanse Therapy ..................................................................................... 203 Acupressure ............................................................................................ 218 Acupressure Hand Charts ...................................................................... 224 Acupressure Treatments ........................................................................ 237 Foot Reflexology ..................................................................................... 256 Sun Yoga ................................................................................................. 257 Reverse Aging ......................................................................................... 262 Cancer ..................................................................................................... 265 Summary ................................................................................................. 275 Author’s Note: ......................................................................................... 279 Author’s Favorite Quotes ....................................................................... 280 7 Become Healthy or Extinct 8 Become Healthy or Extinct How I came to write this book Though an engineer by profession, I got drawn into the world of medicine, alternative health therapy and metaphysics of the human body by a series of illnesses and experiences in my life that started with a near fatal attack of Pneumonia when I was 20 years old. It was followed up 2 years later by a severe attack of Amoebiasis from drinking mountain water. At the time, I was studying to become an engineer and I was living away from home, eating either street side food or very spicy food that was the tradition of the city I lived in, Pune in India. I never really recovered from the Amoebiasis even though doctors treated me quite often with Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicines whenever I got diarrhoea. They did, of course, advise me to get on a healthier diet, but I simply could not manage it, being away from home. So my health got worse, and within a few years, I was diagnosed with Amoebic Colitis. Colitis made me hit the panic button, kick-starting my serious search for a cure in the world of conventional medicine as well as alternative therapy. This downward shift in my health was also marked by the sudden appearance of a skin allergy that defied diagnosis even by several highly acclaimed doctors in India and overseas. I was eventually put on Allopathy to suppress the skin allergy. Although the colitis came under control after a few years with a lot of effort, the allergy kept getting worse with each passing month even though I was on regular medication. It would manifest as an intense skin irritation all over my body that would get so bad, I would end up scratching my skin off. Doctors could not diagnose my illness or stop it from getting worse, so forget the talk of a cure. The continuous medication made me very drowsy, and my failing performance at work prompted me to give it up and just sit at home doing nothing. I began to even have difficulty wearing clothes and footwear, since their friction would irritate my skin severely. After every meal, I had to scratch my gums and grind my teeth to soothe my gum irritation. The year was 2004, and I was so fed up of my state, that I began contemplating suicide. So intense was my trauma. It was in this desperate state of mind that I tried Acupressure as a treatment from an engineer, Ashvin Dalal, in Mumbai. I thought it was a complete joke that pressing some points on the body could achieve things that the best systems of medicines could not, but I had nothing to lose and was still determined to live. Although sceptical, I religiously followed the treatment he advised me, and was quite surprised to see signs of remission within two weeks. I did not believe it at first and just continued the treatment diligently. To my utter amazement, my allergies completely reversed within 6 months flat! That was a complete shock for me. Here I was, fighting an illness that had no known cause and no known remedy, but this amazing system of treatment cured me. What‟s more, it happened with no medication whatsoever! 9 Become Healthy or Extinct This experience became a very powerful realization for me that made me quickly learn the acupressure system and teach it to others as well, especially to those suffering from chronic health problems. All through the previous 12 years of my life, at various stages of my illnesses, I was treated by very good doctors in India and overseas, who used Allopathy, Homeopathy, Ayurveda, body creams and lotions, intravenous drug treatments and nature cures. Even though I made sure that I gave every system almost 2 years to work on me, none of them helped at all. I even tried prayers and energy- healing treatments, but it seemed that miracles were meant for others only. Those years of my life were filled with the real education about health and the working of the human body. It taught me about healthy living, why the human body deviates from health, and most importantly, why modern medicines do not work! This prompted my further learning of the laws of nature, the laws of the human body and the study of natural health systems and natural curative substances, all of which, worked! With experience, I understood that Acupressure by itself could not cure all types of illnesses, so from all my learning, I put together components of natural healing that I knew worked. I called this „The Natural Health Therapy‟ protocol, which is what I bring to you in this book. In my experience, it is one of the most powerful systems of physical healing. If you make the effort to understand and practise it diligently, I‟m sure you will have the same opinion in time. The truth is that ever since I started using The Natural Health Therapy in 2005, all my maladies vanished completely. I have not fallen sick for even a single day since then and neither have I taken a single medicine, nor needed visited the doctor. It has been nothing of a miracle. So what am I actually saying here? I am saying that I cured my sick body that suffered for over a decade from Amoebiasis, Colitis, Dysentery, Constipation, Indigestion, Acidity, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Allergies, Skin Disorders, Internal Heat, Internal Toxicity, Systemic Candidiasis and a gut system that was so inflamed that it caused 3rd degree Piles that had to be surgically removed, and I have brought my body to a state where I have not been sick for even a single day in the last 10 years! I did have one side effect from using The Natural Health Therapy though… It reversed my biological age by about 20 years! 10
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