Using The Clark Method Newsletter

November/December   2002          Number 48 (PDF Version)

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by Bonnie O’Sullivan

Dear Friends,

          You, my readers, are magnificent. Your generosity is the greatest. And those of you who sent us devices for Sandy to use are special friends of ours for life. Thanks to you, Sandy has been using: a hand held far infra-red device with a powerful ceramic heating element from Japan, called an Onnetsuki; a tens machine that is 100 times more powerful than any other tens machine, called a Thera-Stim; a machine that is said to work as well or better than NCR to re-align the bones of the skull and body, called a SCENAR; and a machine that unblocks the lymph system called a Light Beam Generator. Each has been very helpful to Sandy during the month she has been recovering from surgery.

By attending a seminar given by Jay Abraham on December 7-9, 2002 we were also introduced to another marvelous healing aid, E3Live, which is a liquid form of fresh-water, edible species of blue-green algae, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA) that is now available completely unprocessed and alive. The gentleman who hosted the seminar, Jay Abraham, who has been taking E3Live for several months, fasted on E3Live for the 3-day seminar and recommended it to us. He was brilliant, energetic and much calmer and focused than we remember him being in the past when we attended one of his seminars.

I’ve been drinking E3Live, 2 teaspoons 2 times a day, for over a week and it has done the following for me: My appetite is satisfied with less food and I’m not overly hungry at mealtimes as I was before, tomatoes have stopped causing me to have canker sores, I’m sleeping less, I do not need to go to the bathroom during the night, I have more energy, and I’m amazed at how fast my memory is working and how effortlessly I am able to make decisions (they’re made instantly, seemingly without thinking about them; it’s incredible).

Dr. Gabriel Cousens Talks about E3Live

An Interview With Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

On Healthy Spiritual Living and the Benefits of E3Live Liquid Algae

Dr. Gabriel Cousens is one of the world’s foremost authorities on living food nutrition, holistic lifestyle and complementary medicine. He graduated from Columbia Medical School in 1969 with a specialty in biochemistry. He is a holistic physician, psychiatrist, homeopath and family therapist. Not only has Dr. Cousens made major contributions in the field of natural health, he is also a shining example of health himself. Dr. Cousens is the author of Conscious Eating; Depression-Free For Life; Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet and several other books.

The following interview is based on a film shoot that took place on February 1, 2000 at Dr. Cousen’s Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. Eliot Jay Rosen, Los Angeles Times best-selling author of the book, Experiencing the Soul, conducted the interview.

EJR (Eliot Jay Rosen) — Before we talk about E3Live Algae, please tell us a little about this beautiful sanctuary in southern Arizona.

GC (Dr. Gabriel Cousens) — The purpose of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is to support the experience of complete rejuvenation, to offer people a “menu of awakened living,” to become fully liberated from all limitations so that they can live their lives fully and experience their birthright of the sacred joy of living.

We focus on helping people absorb more of the vital forces of nature through living food, sunlight, fresh air, clean water, meditation, yoga and other practices. We encourage people, whatever their orientation, to go inside and get in touch with the part of their eternal self, so they can regenerate from that point of enhanced awareness. That’s our function and that’s our focus here.

EJR — You mentioned the term, “living foods.” Could you give a brief definition of what living foods are?

GC — Living foods are foods that have not been altered by any particular process that negatively changes its biochemical structure and energetic charge in any way. Living foods are not subjected to heat. They are uncooked and nothing essential is removed from the food by way of processing. Living foods are truly whole foods in that they still have their life force intact. The best living foods are organically grown because the full complement of nutrients in the soil is essential to our health. As our health depends to a great degree on the quality of the foods we eat, eating as much living foods as feels right to the body, is the direction we want to go.

EJR — As far as I know, you’ve been eating and recommending Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), the species of blue-green algae that grows in Klamath Lake, longer than any other medical doctor in the world, almost 20 years, which in my book, makes you an expert.

GC — That’s true. However, I want to make clear from the very outset that throughout that time, my commitment has been, and still is, only to the highest quality algae and not to any company. I have no affiliation or financial interest in the company that is behind E3Live. In this way, I can have the cleanest, most scientific approach. I can switch to better products and not compromise my integrity when it comes to recommending what is best for my clients. I’ve shared AFA algae with thousands of my clients throughout the years. The reason I’m speaking with you today is because I’ve experienced that E3Live is a qualitative leap compared to the other algae coming out of Klamath Lake.

EJR — In the most general way, why is nutrition so important to our health?

GC — Nutrition is so vital to health because eating is our main way of getting energy, besides breathing and increasing our spiritual connection, which fills us with life-force. When we put nutrients in our body, we are taking in a gift from God. We’re taking in a gift from the living planet. The sad thing is that most of the members of our society don’t eat naturally, and we have a consequent degeneration physically, mentally, morally, AND spiritually.

People are mistaken if they think that you can pop a vitamin or eat junk food and that’s enough to keep healthy AND ALIVE. When you take natural, live, organic, whole foods into the body, foods that do not have pesticides and herbicides, it makes a huge, huge difference in the quality of life, in the quality of energy, in the quality of health. Eating a poor diet is like taking a car and putting diluted or impure gasoline into it and thinking that the car is going to run the same as if you put in premium grade. And when the car breaks down because it’s not getting the right fuel, some people, even traditional medical doctors, still don’t get the connection.

Superior nutrition specifically enhances our ability to excel as human beings physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Poor nutrition contributes to what I call a “biologically altered brain” in which we function at an inferior level. The result is increased drug addiction, alcoholism, increased hyperactivity, increased attention deficit disorders, and depression.

Do you know that there are 40 million people in the U.S. who are clinically depressed? The above conditions are all as a result of the biologically altered brain which comes as a result of poor nutrition and which is amplified by poor genetics. E3Live is specific for our nervous system, brain function and the quality of our consciousness. E3Live is specific food for drug addiction, alcoholism, increased hyperactivity, increased attention deficit disorders, and depression. More than any other food, it enables us to make a paradigm shift and enjoy a sense of well-being. There’s a quality of joy that’s really subtle that many people experience with E3Live.

EJR — Perhaps when some people hear the words “algae” and “food” in the same sentence, it may be a new concept for them to think that certain algae are edible.

GC — Not only are certain algae edible, but they are truly super foods. Indigenous people have eaten algae for thousands of years. I don’t know if they are still working on the project, but the U.S. space program, NASA, was at one time developing food growing systems in space that used algae as a staple protein source. Today more than ever, algae is thought of as a wholesome food in wider and wider circles. It’s not thought to be so unusual anymore.

EJR — How does E3Live compare to store bought vitamins and minerals?

GC — I don’t see E3Live as a collection of vitamins and minerals. In nature, there are certain energies that were given to us by God to use for our human development. For instance, the herb milk thistle has an affinity to the liver. Siberian ginseng is a specific for the adrenals, etc.

In the same way, E3Live has a unique energy that has an affinity to improving brain function. We now have clinical research showing AFA algae balances EEG readings and improves central nervous system functioning. So I don’t like to equate AFA algae as just being a good source of certain vitamins and minerals. Sure, it has the most reliable and plentiful amounts of B-12 than any other non-animal food I know, but this in itself is just an added bonus to the gift that AFA really is in the grand scheme of God’s creation. But I think this alga is so much more than that. To compare it to man-made supplements is to minimize the value of AFA algae. And now that an AFA alga is available in its liquid, live form, this for me is really the exciting part.

EJR — You were one of the first physicians to recommend E3Live liquid algae even though you were already using the powdered version of the same species of algae.

GC — That’s correct. I’d been eating algae from Klamath Lake since 1982. I happened to be at a Live Food Expo in San Francisco where I met the developers of E3Live. My first experience with E3Live was quite dramatic and wonderful. I felt the difference immediately. I felt such a paradigm shift compared to the other AFA algae I’d been using, that I am now recommending E3Live to my clients, and the response has been wonderful for so many different health concerns.

EJR — Will people still benefit from using E3Live even though they may not want to improve their diet, even if they know there is a better diet?

GC — Yes, absolutely. E3Live is going to help you whether or not you improve your diet. Obviously, to get the most positive changes, you’ll want to improve your diet and lifestyle. Yet there are many people who just want something to make them feel better. That’s OK too. And yes, these people will also benefit. I wouldn’t want people to think that to take E3Live one also has to adopt an unfamiliar lifestyle or have to do things that are not comfortable for them. Everybody has a choice as to what they want to do, or not do. However, what seems to happen is that when you begin using E3Live, you begin to feel a greater sense of well-being, and you naturally start to get interested in making improvements simply because you feel better.

I’ve had excellent results using the algae with children who’ve been autistic. One of the main characteristics of autism is the absence of verbal talking. These children only make grunting and other such noises. I remember one child case that began to talk in only one month after beginning using the algae. Unfortunately, if you can believe this, the mother really didn’t want the child to talk. She started complaining the child was talking too much, and made some excuse to stop giving the algae to the child, which is very sad when you think about it.

EJR — As a psychiatrist, do you sometimes use more traditional treatments for depression such as Prozac®?

GC — I’ve had people who’ve been depressed for years and years, and literally, within a few days after receiving AFA algae, their depression lifts. This is because the algae gets to the roots of helping heal the addictive brain chemistry, which is behind a lot of depression. I discuss this at length in my new book, Depression Free For Life.

People do not have a Prozac® deficiency. This approach doesn’t get to the root of the problem. My depression healing rate using natural foods, including E3Live, nutritional supplements and basic lifestyle changes, without the necessity of using any pharmaceutical drugs, Prozac® or anything like that, is over 90%. No drug can compete with that, period.

EJR — What about E3Live and meditation? It would seem to me if E3Live is good for mental clarity it might actually help people improve their focus in meditation.

GC — In my first book, Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet, I was very focused on what is the best diet for Meditators. I found that an uncooked, live food diet is best, not that one cannot make spiritual progress without it, just that the living food diet is extremely helpful. Along with this I found that AFA algae was a specific for meditation. And now, with the new liquid form of AFA algae, “E3Live,” its positive effect is even more pronounced. So yes, I find that E3Live is a specific food for enhancing one’s ability to focus in meditation. E3Live helps keeps the mind clear, light and joyful.

EJR — Could you compare the energetic and nutritional differences between E3Live algae and say, Spirulina algae, or Chlorella algae?

GC — For those who know about edible algae, there’s a tendency to want to compare algae in a competitive way. But this isn’t the way I look at it. Each of these algae’s has their proper roles. Chlorella is very specific for getting mercury out of the system. Spirulina is very good for hepatitis. Although Chlorella or Spirulina may help mental functioning a little bit, it is nowhere near the effect that AFA algae has on mental functioning. So Spirulina works more on the physical body, and E3Live’s real gift to humanity is that it works more on the mental, emotional and spiritual levels, yet, still has tremendous effects physically, as I’ve been mentioning. But it’s the mental functioning where people really feel the difference.

EJR — What about E3Live and the immune system?

GC — A recent study showed that AFA algae activates up to 40% more of the immune system’s beneficial natural killer cells. Natural killer cells hunt out viruses and bacteria, even seeking them out deep in the body’s tissues. One of the nice things about AFA algae, something I’ve intuitively known since 1982, is that it significantly enhances the immune system. If I feel any kind of viral imbalance coming on, I take E3Live and it always takes it away. I also use E3Live for my clients, not only to get rid of symptoms of disease, but as a preventative measure. I’ve actually known of two or three cases where people took the algae and healed their cancer. This is not to say that AFA algae is the primary immune stimulant to use above any other to fight cancer, but that this algae has some anti-cancer qualities. Scientists already know that AFA algae has some anti-HIV effects, but we need to do a lot more research in these areas.

EJR — Have you had any clients that have responded to using E3Live for weight loss and appetite control?

GC — Yes, I have, but let me say that in my practice I don’t focus on these issues in particular. What I find is that when I help people improve their nutritional intake, especially in the direction of a living food diet, they naturally gravitate back to their natural, normal and healthiest weight. Appetite control becomes much less of an issue with most people because when people’s bodies and brains are well nourished, when they self-regulate and normalize, they no longer feel depressed and so they don’t need to eat compulsively as a result of depression. As E3Live balances blood sugar levels, they’re not eating to compensate for low blood sugar.

EJR — Have you used E3Live successfully with alcohol and drug problems?

GC — Yes. E3Live is an essential part of my treatment program. Almost everyone I see, I put on E3Live because it helps with the underlying depression and helps heal the biologically altered, addictive brain aspects behind these destructive behaviors. I believe E3 Live is God’s gift for people with a biologically altered brain because of poor diet and poor genetics. These people suffer a lot in this world. One way they cope with the suffering is alcoholism and drugs. There are obviously better, less destructive ways to cope.

In alcoholism and drug addiction, we find subtle and not so subtle changes in brain chemistry and brain waves. In many of these people, the pleasure centers of their brains, the dopamine receptors, are not working correctly. We find that by using E3Live along with other dietary changes and specific amino acid supplementation, we can normalize the electroencephalogram (EEG) readings and balance the central nervous system at the root of the disorder.

For example, if someone’s brain function is off, not dramatically in the sense they are having epileptic seizures, but “sub clinically” and out of balance, their EEG isn’t really quite right, and we can normalize it with E3Live, proper nutrition and other supplements. E3Live helps people eliminate the craving for alcohol and drugs in part because blood sugar levels are being normalized and the brain is also functioning better.

There’s another hidden aspect in all this that very few people know about. The hypothalamus is a vitally important gland of the endocrine system. It is often not functioning properly in drug addiction and alcoholism. It’s very hard to heal the endocrine system, which is almost always out of balance in drug and alcohol addicted individuals. It turns out that E3Live is the only vegetarian source I know that brings hypothalamic function back to normal.

So as you can see, I’m particularly excited about E3Live. It is clearly the best of all the algae on the market right now for healing and bringing the hypothalamus back into functioning.

EJR — Because E3Live is perishable it has to be frozen. Is there a difference between freezing vegetables and fruits and freezing algae in terms of its maintaining its nutritional and energetic properties?

GC — Yes. This species of algae is genetically prepared for extreme alterations in temperature. In winter, parts of Klamath Lake freeze over, including the live algae growing in the water. But when the weather warms up, the algae comes out of its frozen dormancy phase and resumes its active growth cycle. Its genetic structure protects it from the effects of the cold, which is unlike fruits and vegetables, which are destroyed in frost. This is because AFA algae is high in lipids and free fatty acids, which protect it from crystallizing in low temperature conditions. Bee pollen works the same way; you can freeze it and you don’t damage the nutritional value. So the good news about this is that the algae is significantly protected against the effects of freezing.

EJR — The term “adaptogen,” usually refers to an herb, which has many different ways of working in the body. Could we apply this term to a food such as E3Live, as it’s been reported to be effective for many different health conditions?

GC — Yes, I think it is very appropriate to use the term “adaptogen” in connection with E3Live. It’s both a physical adaptogen as well as a mental adaptogen. In my own life, sometimes I’ll have to speak for an entire day at conferences. I take E3Live as sort of a mental adaptogen for the stress of putting out so much energy.

AFA algae is also a physical adaptogen in that it increases physical energy. There are world-class athletes who eat AFA algae because they feel it gives them a “competitive edge.”

EJR — Dr. Cousens, you’ve been incredibly generous with your time. Do you have any last words for us today?

GC — The essence of my message is this: it doesn’t matter what our chronological age is, we can be youthful at any age. But more important than staying youthful is to understand that one-sided physical health will never give us the lasting happiness and love we seek. We want to draw into our lives anything and anyone that nourishes, supports and enhances our spiritual and overall growth. Life is a great blessing. Health is a great blessing. True gifts of God are a great blessing, and worthy of any effort or expense.

Link to Dr. Gabriel Cousens

E3Live Testimonials

E3Live Alone Kept Me Alive

For most of my life I suffered from serious allergies and sinus infections. Even sinus surgery failed. Absolutely nothing helped until I began eating E3Live. I am now free of both problems.

I realized more of the power of this super food last year, when due to an undiagnosed gastrointestinal problem, I was unable to eat. The only food I could keep down was E3Live. I lived completely on E3Live and water for almost two months. Amazingly, I lost only six pounds. Whatever nutrients are in E3Live literally kept me alive and saved my life. I’ve now changed my lifestyle and eat only organic living foods and E3Live. I can honestly say that I feel better than ever before! —David Robatcek, Oregon 

Meditation Enhanced

I have tried all of the various algae products. E3Live is the only one that feels truly alive. It provides profound mental clarity, which is perfect for meditation.

—Abba Naraziah, Essene Spiritual Leader

Grandma’s New Lease on Life

I’m 76 years old. Since adding E3Live to my diet, my stamina is always increasing. Now my grandson says, “You go, gramma!”

          I have more joint flexibility, and I’ve been able to throw out most of my drug prescriptions. The money I save from not buying these drugs pays for the algae. Even if it didn’t, don’t be cheap — this is your health we’re talking about! E3Live is great for whatever ails you, I say. —Bette Lou, Topeka, Kansas

Grades Up, Hyperactivity Down

          My 12 year-old son Jared was hyperactive since the day he was born. He had a hard time concentrating and not fidgeting, and had a 30 average in public school. Jared was also on the drug Ritalin® but it made him like a zombie. We decided to home school him and took him off Ritalin®. We started slowly with the algae, using only one AFA capsule for the first two days. No change. On the third day, we gave him 2 capsules, and we saw an immediate improvement in his ability to concentrate, which has only improved over time. Jared’s grades are now up to 80, and we’re all very happy, knowing Jared has a bright future ahead of him. —Lorene Otto, Sarasota, Florida

Insulin Reduced

          I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 19 years ago. I’ve always had trouble keeping my blood sugar regulated. I’ve tried many diets, and none have ever come close to controlling my blood sugar like E3Live algae has. I’ve had a considerable reduction in my insulin since I began taking the algae four months ago, and my night vision has improved as well. The algae has made an incredible difference with my diabetes. I would like every diabetic to have an opportunity to benefit from the algae as I have. Thank you to everyone at Vision for sharing the algae with me. —Susan Lynn, Oregon

Energy Boost Wholesome and Lasting

          As a clinical nutritionist, I’m impressed and delighted at how E3Live helps such a wide range of health problems. I can only conclude that E3Live has the therapeutic versatility of a true adaptogen, nourishing the body and mind on multiple metabolic pathways at the deepest of physiological levels. E3Live’s energetic boost is therefore wholesome and lasting, unlike the temporary ups and downs of unhealthy stimulants such as sugar and caffeine. —Dr. Fred Bisci, Ph.D., Staten Island, NY

Life After Brain Surgery

          After two brain operations, my body was depleted and in need of rebuilding. During the first 18 months of recovery I was taking many supplements, herbs and using essential oils. They were all helping but I still felt weak and had very little stamina. Then I began taking E3Live, which replaced another algae that I had been using for 20 years. Within two weeks, my energy and stamina increased tremendously. Two months later my body finally regained muscle and strength. E3Live is the real thing. It has helped me enormously. I highly recommend it. —Rod Birchill, Gold Coast, Australia

Enjoying The “New Me”

          I own a cottage industry business, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and mentally draining. After eating E3Live, my energy has increased to such an extent that my whole being is now functioning with more clarity and focused intensity. I feel like my cells are being bathed in a warm, wonderful energy. I’ve been told by people around me, as well as noticing myself, that I look 10 years younger. I’m confident with the help of this super food, I’ll finally be able to attain my cherished goal of being “the best I can be.”

—Linda Morabito, Hood River, OR

Doctor from “Down Under” Discovers E3Live

          I have a large client base, which includes patients who suffer from a wide and varied number of chronic ailments. I’m delighted to report that I’m getting extremely positive results with E3Live with ailments such as Crohn’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, gout, menopausal symptoms, blood sugar imbalances, suppressed immune systems, anemia, obesity, and many others.

          E3Live, however, is not only for chronic disease, but beneficial for general well-being. People whose energy and immune system’s are a bit “flat” respond quite well, and quickly. I’ve noticed remarkable improvements in overall appearance, including healthier skin color and the growth of hair and nails. I’m very happy with E3Live. I am recommending it a lot more than I expected because I’ve found it so beneficial for so many varied conditions. The results and the feedback I’m getting are extremely positive. I would strongly recommend E3Live to other health practitioners.

 —Christine Tompson, N.D., Australia

Side Effects Reduced

          Earlier this year I recommended E3Live to one of my patients who was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy for breast cancer. Almost immediately she began feeling more energy, less depression and experienced a noticeable reduction in the adverse side effects of the chemotherapy. Her medical doctors noticed, and commented on her increase in energy and on how quickly her hair grew back after her chemotherapy regime. E3Live is superior because it is a whole food. Because it’s in a live, liquid form, it has more vital life force to give to our bodies for repair and healing.

—Barbara Turunen, D.C. (Chiropractor), Oakland, CA

Health is Wealth

          A nutritionist recommended E3Live for my chronic fatigue syndrome. I now have lots more energy and much less mental confusion and anxiety! And I know it’s the E3Live because I don’t take any other supplements. My mom started taking E3Live, her hair is growing like crazy, her nails are now very thick and strong, and her energy level has gone up! I highly recommend E3Live. Pass it on! —Theresa M. Lombardi, Long Island, NY

More about E3Live

Update on Sandy Petry, Bonnie’s daughter:

Background Info: Sandy is 41 years old and has been unable to work for five years. Her physical problems began, we believe, from being prescribed Tetracycline for severe diarrhea when she was three years old. Tetracycline, when given to a child younger than eight years of age, damages the forming teeth and the sinus bone development. When her permanent teeth came in they were discolored at the gum line. At the age of nine she suffered two traumatic blows to her face. One was a swimming accident that fractured her back teeth and the other was an accident that damaged her upper front teeth (she banged her upper front teeth on the back of a chair, which made her gums bleed at the time and, throughout her life, was the cause of terrible headaches and her teeth to ache for hours if a glass bumped against them). She began having large amalgam fillings put into her back teeth after these accidents. At thirteen she was given Darvon for painful menstruation. In her early twenties she had her wisdom teeth removed as they were impacted. Three of the four wisdom teeth sites developed dry sockets and it was three months before she recovered. Her painful menstruation was diagnosed as endometriosis soon after her wisdom teeth were removed. She had surgery for endometriosis twice in the following six years. By the age of thirty-six it was obvious that she needed another endometriosis surgery as her monthly pain had increased over the years to last three weeks out of every month. Her doctor had been urging her to have a hysterectomy for years and assured her that all her pain would go away if she had a hysterectomy. She wanted to believe him and went through with it in November 1997, but after her hysterectomy her health went downhill and she gained 100 pounds over the next three years. The doctor prescribed estrogen and progesterone in various ratios in an attempt to control her debilitating hot flashes and the constant pain in her breasts and throughout her body. In May of 2001 Sandy moved from Washington State to California to live with Dale and me. She felt that she was dying and would have been happy to die, except that she didn’t want me to lose another daughter (her sister died at 21 in an auto accident). In August 2001 a dentist diagnosed her as having osteomyelitis of the jawbone. She has since had all of her teeth extracted and numerous curettage surgeries (i.e., the scraping of infected bone from her jawbone). These procedures helped reduce some of the swelling throughout her body, as did drinking a quart of green vegetable juice daily, but she still has pain and her breasts are the most painful. Then, an MRI taken September 16, 2002 showed that there was something that looked like an abscess in the roof of her mouth.

Dental Surgeon Removes Sandy’s “Fountain of Evil” —
A Nasopalatine Duct Cyst (NPDC)

Sandy had surgery in the roof of her mouth four weeks ago on November 21, 2002. Dr. Neal Swann, D.D.S., of Milpitas, Ca. found a nasopalatine duct cyst the size of a grape above the roof of her mouth and behind her nose that he reached by making an hole through the bone in the roof of her mouth. He sent the cyst and bits of bone away for analysis (to read the results of the analysis please turn to page 15, Biopsy Report, Patient, Petry, Sandra).

As he removed the cyst Dr. Swann said, “I just removed your ‘fountain of evil.’”

After the surgery, Dr. Swann said the cyst was the reason the bone around Sandy’s teeth had died, which led to the loss of all of her teeth.

The surgery went well. I stayed in the operating room with her and she was awake though it all. She didn’t want to be put to sleep because she was put to sleep by another dental surgeon who performed curettage surgery on her upper front jawbone and she fought him in her sleep, which almost caused him to stop the procedure. He asked me to tell her he would not continue unless she stopped resisting and, in her sleep, she understood and allowed him to work in the area despite the excruciating pain. She believed at the time that scraping the dead bone away was the only way she would get rid of the “fountain of evil” that caused her to not want to live due to the constant pain she had that no doctor or dentist could comprehend.

Descriptions of a cyst and an abscess:

In the Dictionary of Medical Terms by Mikel A. Rothenberg, M.D., and Charles F. Chapman, it states, a cyst is a closed, fluid-filled sac embedded in tissue (as in the breast) that is abnormal or results from disease. An abscess is an accumulation of pus that results from a breakdown of tissues (a common problem being tissue breakdown around a tooth, producing an abscessed tooth).

The doctor who ordered Sandy’s MRI, Robert David Tufft, M.D., of Oakland, Ca, and who referred Sandy to Dr. Swann, thought the spot he saw on the MRI was an abscess. We thought he was right because whenever she had an anesthetic shot in the roof of her mouth behind her upper front teeth (and, after her teeth were extracted, in the same area for curettage surgery), pus would seep out of the hole the needle made. We thought the pus would go away when the dead bone was removed. Little did we know the source was a cyst.

Descriptions of the palatine bone and a duct:

The above dictionary also states, “the Palatine bone is either of a pair of roughly L-shaped bones of the skull that form the posterior part of the hard palate, part of the floor of the orbit, and part of the nasal cavity,” and “a duct is a tube-like channel for carrying fluids or other materials from one organ or part to another (e.g. the bile duct, which carries bile to the duodenum).” Note: There is an excellent article about nasopalatine duct cysts on the following Web Site: http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic738.htm.

Always Revisit Doctor Who Orders Bone Scan or MRI

We have learned two very important lessons about MRI’s and Bone Scans. First, the Radiologist in the Nuclear Medicine Department of the hospital where the MRI or Bone Scan is taken may not be as knowledgeable as your doctor. Second, even though the doctor is sent the MRI or Bone Scan, he does not look at it unless the patient makes another appointment.

We lost valuable time by not getting on the two-month waiting list to consult with Dr. Swann after Sandy had a Bone Scan that he sent her to have in April 2002 because we read the results written by the hospital Radiologist who said he saw nothing unusual. The same thing almost happened in September when Dr. Tufft ordered the MRI of Sandy’s head. Again, the hospital Radiologist reported nothing unusual, and Sandy didn’t realize she should have made an appointment immediately to find out what Dr. Tufft found on the MRI. Luckily she made an appointment to use his near infrared lamps for the pain in her breasts and he took the time to look at the MRI while she was there. He immediately saw an area in the roof of her mouth that looked to him like an abscess and referred her to Dr. Swann.

Bone Scan Shows Two Additional Trouble Spots

We are very happy that these two skilled doctors found Sandy’s problem and removed it, no matter how long it took. However, Dr. Swann saw two more abnormal spots on Sandy’s April Bone Scan (one between her eyes and one on her lower front jawbone). He said they might clear up themselves now that he has removed the nasopalatine duct cyst, but as he doesn’t operate in the eye area, if she doesn’t feel better throughout her body in a few weeks, she should go back to Dr. Tufft and get a referral to a Nose, Ear and Throat Surgeon.

NCR Helped Open Pathways In Sinuses

In October Sandy was fortunate to have had NeuroCranial Restructuring (NCR) treatments [NCR is when a balloon is inserted into the nostrils and pumped up for three to four seconds with a hand pump and released to realign the bones in the head. (See NL #47 for Sandy’s NCR experience.)]. Her NCR treatments probably helped Dr. Swann remove the cyst. In Sandy’s MRI it clearly shows how smashed together her sinuses were. If she ever has another MRI of her skull it will be interesting to see if her sinuses are back to normal.

Note: Sandy had NCR treatments by Dr. Charles Musich, D.C. of Morgan Hill, Calif. (408) 778-7372, who is a highly skilled NCR practitioner.

E3Live Algae Gives Sandy Hope of Recovering Her Health

Seven days ago Sandy began taking E3Live. She is now finally convinced she will recover completely from her illness. I rate higher 3 teaspoons of E3Live taken throughout the day than a full day of Gerson Therapy (see my '82 Gerson Healing Crisis story on page 12).

After two days of taking E3Live, Sandy noticed that her memory is sharper than she can remember it ever being in her life. On the third day she started a healing crisis. After taking E3Live (one teaspoon three times a day for two days) she developed a fever of 100º F with alternating chills and sweats, began vomiting and had excruciating pain on and off at the surgery site and in her breasts and other lymph glands. On day 2 the crisis continued, but wasn’t as severe, so she began taking E3Live again (½ tsp. in water sipped during the day). On day 3 her temperature went up and down several more times. Day 4 was the same, but she said the pain and swelling in her breasts, body and mouth was much less. Today is day 5 and she woke up hungry and fever-free, but small pains come and go throughout her body. Note: This is the first time for many years that Sandy has had a fever. When she was sick with the flu several years ago she ran a sub-temperature. A below-normal temperature when one is sick means the body is not fighting the sickness, as it should. Fevers destroy bacteria. 

My Gerson experience taught me that the body heals in cycles and has its own priorities. I believe if Sandy keeps drinking E3Live and taking coffee enemas every 4 hours (every 2 hours in a healing crisis) she will have healing crises on and off until she is well.

The prognosis for complete recovery from osteomyelitis of the jawbone is not good. One long-term study (of nearly 5 years) has reported considerably or totally reduced pain in 74% of facial neuralgia patients who had jawbone curettage. However, the pain returned for about 30% of these patients (Reference: Bouquot-JE; Christian-J. Long-term effects of jawbone curettage on the pain of facial neuralgia. J-Oral-Maxillofac-Surg. 1995 Apr; 53(4): 387-97; discussion 397-9). (Note: Jawbone curettage means scraping away dead jawbone.)

I believe the reason people develop pain and disease after suffering physical trauma is the lack of nutrients in their diet, which leads to the body not healing completely and the symptoms of the resulting pain perplexing doctors. Narcotics are then prescribed (doctors give patients they can’t correctly diagnose long-term narcotics). Sandy’s quality of life was further compromised when tetracycline was prescribed for her when she was too young. The complication of Sandy’s trauma of having her sinus damaged was that a cyst developed, which caused bacteria to contaminate her jawbone, which destroyed the bone marrow, which spread poison throughout her body. Making matters worse, when Sandy went to the doctor about headaches, body pains and numbness in her hands he gave her narcotics that masked the problem for years. The specialists she is now seeing for osteomyelitis of the jawbone say they have never seen anyone as sick with this disease as she is. I’m praying that with the skill of the dental surgeon and the help of E3Live Sandy’s body will eventually heal itself.

Bonnie’s 1982 Gerson Therapy Healing Crisis

Twenty years ago, during the month of November 1982, I had the opportunity to stay at the Gerson Cancer Clinic in Mexico as a “helper” for a friend who had cancer. While there I followed the diet exactly, as I hoped it would cure my allergies, which it did (while I was on the diet). The regimen included coffee enemas every four hours, fruit all day at any time, three meals per day, which included oatmeal, 2 baked potatoes, 2 tablespoons of flax oil, and vegetables, 13 glasses of juice daily, two of which had fresh organic liver juice added, and no water, dairy, wheat and certain other fruits/vegetables. A healing crisis was expected and when none occurred it was suspected that the patient was cheating on the diet. When a crisis did occur everyone (nurses and aids) cheered and the doctors congratulated you repeatedly.

Within a few days I experienced a three-day healing crisis and throughout the month I had several single day crises. Then, after leaving the clinic and continuing the diet at home, on December 9^th I began a serious healing crisis with severe pain in my lower right abdomen and a fever of 101º F. From what I had learned at the clinic (by attending their twice weekly lectures given by Charlotte Gerson and various previous cancer patients who were cured with the diet and came back to the hospital to share their experiences with the current patients) I knew I was lucky to be having a major healing crisis and that it could last a week.

The pain in my abdomen was probably due to a healing of my tubes where I had had a tubal ligation operation in 1979. Although I felt no pain in my lower abdomen until Dec. 9, 1982, in 1979 a biopsy report stated my tubal tissue looked “unhealthy,” and the doctor recommended a hysterectomy.  I refused and, today, at age 66, I still have my female organs.

After five weeks of drinking 13 glasses of organic vegetable juice, consumed less that 10 minutes after juicing, my body finally had the energy to begin healing the unhealthy tissue. But, because of the fever I wasn’t able to prepare food or juice as often as I should have, so my body was having a difficult time finishing the job. On Dec. 15^th my husband insisted that I see a doctor so, in the early evening, we went to a hospital emergency room.

When the young emergency doctor examined me he palpated (pressed on) my abdomen and I screamed. He took my husband aside and told him that I had a very serious case of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and I must be operated on immediately!

My husband knew I wouldn’t agree to an operation and told the doctor that he had better talk to me about it. I told the doctor emphatically that I would not have an operation. I explained that I was in a healing crisis due to being on a special diet for the past six weeks and that the pain and fever were welcome and expected. The doctor was speechless for a minute and then said he had never heard of a “healing crisis” and that the symptoms were perfectly clear that I had Pelvic Inflammatory Disease! I was very weak and must have sounded delirious, but my husband backed me up and said he wouldn’t sign an approval for an operation without my consent. Then, we were left alone for a while and I drank the juice he had juiced for me before we left the house, which we had brought with us in a thermos.

Soon, an elderly surgeon came in and examined me. Then he patted me on the hand and asked me to tell him exactly what I had been doing to make myself so sick. I explained the Gerson regimen and said I was in a healing crisis and needed some help. He didn’t agree or disagree he just listened. When I finished my story he asked if I would make a bargain with him. I asked what the bargain was and he said he believed that the way to proceed was for him to admit me into the hospital for observation and to order an all-night IV because I was dehydrated. The bargain was, he would wait until the following day to operate if, in the morning I still had pain in my pelvic area and a temperature, I would agree to the surgery.

I agreed to the bargain, but with my fingers crossed behind my back (figuratively speaking). I was sure if I had the IV (and the time to drink lots of juice and take lots of coffee enemas) I would get over the crisis and be well by the next day, which was my 46^th birthday.

Before the doctor left I asked him if he could prescribe an IV of potassium instead of sodium and he reluctantly agreed. (At the Gerson clinic I learned that Dr. Gerson had determined that the body does not do well on sodium, but it thrives on potassium.)

The doctor also wrote on my patient chart that I wasn’t to take anything by mouth until he gave further instructions. I knew then that he scheduled me for surgery the next day.

Since I believed I was not going to have surgery, I asked my husband to go home and juice two quarts of carrot juice (that was his specialty) and bring them and a quart of my (already prepared) concentrated coffee, a gallon of distilled water and my enema bucket back to the hospital. I had a plan and after the IV was in my arm I had the energy to carry it out.

I drank a glass of juice every hour and every two hours I took a coffee enema. The nurses came into the room to take my temperature and to change the IV bag but they never noticed that I had an enema bucket sitting on the table with a tube going from it to me under the blanket (I got to be an expert at going to the bathroom with the IV-stand). The thermos of juice was easy to hide and I drank a glass of juice after they took my temperature every hour.

My temperature was 103º F when we arrived at the hospital. It had stayed high all day and that was why I decided I’d better get help (until then it went high only in the evening). Through the night the nurses told me that it was still above 101º F and by 3 am I was getting anxious about the argument I would surely have in the morning if my plan didn’t work.

After 4 am the nurses finally allowed me to sleep for 3 hours straight (probably because my temperature had gone down). By that time, I had had four enemas, one cup of concentrated coffee to each enema, and finished drinking two quarts of carrot juice. When the nurse woke me at 7 am and took my temperature, it was a normal 98.6º F!!! And my abdomen didn’t hurt at all when the duty doctor palpated it. I was ecstatic . . . I was right to believe in Charlotte Gerson; the Gerson testimonials were true; and I had stood up against two MDs who had no clue about helping the body heal itself. I felt a miracle had occurred.

On the other hand, I was horrified that I had so narrowly missed having an unnecessary operation and I said so to the duty doctor. He must have been trained on how to respond to statements like that and said, “But, you are okay now, so do you want to be discharged?” I said, “Yes!” and he signed my discharge paper and quickly left the room. 

The hospital was three miles from our house and I was discharged by 10 am with no ride home. I could have called a cab, but I was so exhilarated, I packed my bottles and walked, laughing and crying for joy all the way, as satisfied with being alive as I could be. 

That experience is why, when Sandy was running a fever and throwing up and telling me her face was on fire, I calmly reassured her that she was doing fine, her body was healing itself and she should just drink her E3Live and take lots of coffee enemas, which she did.

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          Thank you again for all the health information you have sent to us. Dale has created a way for you to share your knowledge with our readers (please see page 16 for the details).

          I hope the next year is the best year of your life and all the following years are better and better.

Love,

Bonnie

The Material in this letter is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a prescription for any illness.