Health Discoveries

Liver ~ Mysterious Anti-Fatigue & Protective Factors

Several of the scientific studies by Dr Benjamin Ershoff, PhD, I am going to list here because of their significance in the arena of human health, above and beyond what would be considered normal.  He took three groups of rats and fed them different diets as listed below.

1. Basic Diet fortified with 11 vitamins
2. Diet Number One with additional supply of Vitamin B Complex
3. Diet Number One with additional 10% of rations as Powdered Liver

 Rats on these diets were tested in several areas.

• Stress and Strength and Endurance
• Toxic Poisons
• X-Irradiation

 Stress

After a period of 12 weeks on their respective diets, the three groups of rats were put into separate tubs of water from which they could not get out.  The time was recorded to see how long they could swim and endure until they drowned.  The first group of rats on the standard fortified diet lasted 13.3 minutes.  The second group of rats with the additional supply of Vitamin B Complex didn’t do much better, lasting only 13.4 minutes.  The third group of rats that had their diet supplemented with the powdered liver showed a striking difference.  One of these rats swam for 63 minutes, one for 83 minutes, one for 87 minutes, and the other nine were swimming so vigorously at two hours they were just taken out of the water and the experiment terminated.

Toxic Poisons

The scientific data here goes far beyond just the research of Dr. Ershoff.  Liver supplementation has been shown to counteract the harmful effects of massive or toxic doses of the following...  

     strychnine  (Battelli)
     sulfanilamide  (Chamelin and Funk)
     promin  (Higgins; Ershoff and McWilliams)
     atabrine  (Ershoff)
     dinitrophenol (Ershoff)
     diethylstilbestrol (Chamelin and Funk)
     alphaestradiol (Ershoff and McWilliams)
     desiccated thyroid (Ershoff; Betheil)
     thyroxin, thyroglobulin, iodinated casein (Ershoff and McWilliams)
     cortisone acetate (Ershoff)

These powerful results are quite extensive and details can be found from
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/289.pdf   

X-Irradiation

All three diet groups were subjected to both a lethal dose of x-irradiation and to sub-lethal doses of x-irradiation.  With the lethal dose of x-irradiation all three diet groups showed the same results.  There was no difference in the number or percentage which died and there was no difference in the length of survival.  However, with the multiple sub-lethal doses if x-irradiation, there were differences in both the survival rates of adult rats and immature rats, and differences in all the diet groups.

     Adult Rats
        Basic Diet         40% survived
        Added B Complex     20% survived
        Added Liver         80% survived
     Immature Rats
        Basic Diet            00% survived
        Added B Complex     10% survived
        Added Liver         30% survived

Clive Comments...

The liver is a super important organ in the body, which contributes to it’s being a superfood as seen in the research above.  In the human body it is the largest internal organ and the largest gland.  I will not go into the myriad of functions here, but suffice it to say that it is a vital organ and one cannot live without it.  In fact, it is so vital that, according to Wikipedia...  “The liver is the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver. A human liver is known to grow back in no less than 8 years, due to hyptochronatin cells in the remaining liver.”  Because of the importance of the liver in the human body, people for thousands of years have been sought to protect and support it’s health and function through natural means such as the herb Milk Thistle (silymarin) and techniques such as the Liver - Gall Bladder Flush.

As a superfood, liver also appears to excel.  This can clearly be seen from the above research of Dr. Benjamin Ershoff and others.  Liver supplementation has been used in the ancient and recent past by weight lifters and body builders.  I would not be surprised if triathlon and endurance athletes re-discover this powerful superfood from the past. The ability of liver supplementation to assist in a healthy lifestyle is highly needed today, especially with the increased toxins in the foods we eat and the air we breathe, and the radiation we get from all sources, whether gamma radiation from the cosmos or man made radiation from cell phones, radios, television, high voltage power lines, etc.  And who can’t use more energy?  We are so worn down from the increased stresses in today’s environment plus not giving our body what it needs for optimum performance, that energy is now a $9 billion industry and growing rapidly.  

Liver has been shown without question to be a superfood of great value.  Take to heart the words of Hippocrates in 400 BC...  “Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food.”   Good health is a choice.  Bad health is a choice.  Fate is a misconception.  And you are the only one who determines your destiny.  When the going gets tough, the tough get going.  Losers make excuses.  Winners find solutions.  

Wishing You the Best of Health & Wealth,

Clive Linsenbardt

A Doctor’s Proven Home Cure for Arthritis  ~  Dr Giraud W. Campbell, D.O.

Dr Giraud Campbell is an osteopathic doctor who outlines a treatment for arthritis in this book, now out of print, based on

• a totally raw food diet,
• cleansing enemas and
• light physical exercise. 

• Easing of heat and swelling in joints in only three to ten days.
• Relieves pain, and in most case eliminates it entirely, in two weeks or less.
• Allows more normal movement of parts starting in three weeks or less.
• Restores damaged bone structure, in most cases, in three to six months.

• Cooking food above 118°F for destroys 100% of the enzymes, destroys 30-50% of the vitamins and minerals, coagulates the proteins, caramelizes the sugars, diminishes antioxidants, and turns the natural fiber into mush so we no longer have the needed broom to help sweep the intestines clean.
• Raw foods are easily digested, requiring only 24-36 hours for transit time through the digestive tract, as compared to 40-100 hours for cooked foods, thus increasing the threat of putrefaction and disease.
• Marilyn Willison, of Hippocrates Health Institute, writes, "We should not cook our food.  During this apparently harmless process, vital enzymes are destroyed, proteins are coagulated (making them difficult to assimilate), vitamins are mostly destroyed with the remainder changing into forms that are difficult for the body to utilize, pesticides are restructured into even more toxic compounds, valuable oxygen is lost, and free radicals are produced.”
• There are many nutrients not listed above that the body cannot synthesize but must obtain from foods.  Viktoras Kulvinskas says nutrient losses can be as high as 80% or more.
• Dr. Virginia Vetrano writes that cooking foods forms poisonous inorganic acids.
• Dr. Paul Kouchakoff’s research at the Institute of Clinical Research in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1930, showed cooked food caused digestive leukocytosis, or an increase in white blood cells, a normal reaction if the body is acting to something harmful, such as infection, injury, or toxins.  Eating fresh raw foods showed no stress on the immune system or no increase in the white blood cell count.
• Dr. Kouchakoff’s research also showed that processed foods (i.e. white flour, white rice, homogenized milk, pasteurized milk, regular table salt, etc.) caused pathological leukocytosis. 
• Dr. Bernarr, practicing true Natural Hygiene like Fry, Shelton, Carrington, Tilden, Trall, Graham, and Jennings, has been a 100% raw vegan food eater for over 55 years, and maintains our bodies are always self-healing and always do the right thing when we have diseases.

• Crohns Disease 
• Dermatomyositis
• Diabetes mellitus type 1
• Goodpasture's syndrome
• Graves' disease
• Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
• Hashimoto's disease
• Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
• Lupus erythematosus
• Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
• Myasthenia gravis
• Narcolepsy
• Pemphigus vulgaris 
• Pernicious anaemia
• Polymyositis
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sjögren's syndrome
• Temporal arteritis (also known as "giant cell arteritis")
• Ulcerative Colitis (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD")
• Vasculitis
• Wegener's granulomatosis 

Superhumans
Taken from a television viewing of
Popular Science’s Future Of
September 16, 2009

“The case of Lee Spievack...  Lee is a skilled model maker who works in a hobby store.  One day in 2005 Lee was talking to a customer about an airplane, and had a terrible accident.  When pointing to an airplane and telling a customer he needed to get rid of that engine, he accidently put his finger through the prop and cut off about ½ inch of his finger tip.  But instead of going to the ER and spending the rest of his life with a hacked off finger tip, he contacted his brother, Allen Spievack, M.D., a research doctor who had spent years working on limb regeneration.  Allen had developed an experimental powder, which had not previously been tried on humans, and Lee agreed to try it.  After taking a shower, Lee sprinkled the powder on his finger tip while it was still wet, and covered it with a Band-Aid.  After doing this every day for a few weeks, his fingertip started to regrow, even the nail!  After four weeks it had completely regrown, to just the way it was before.”  

“Just as surprising, Lee Spievack is not a teenager or young man. He is 72 years old!”

“Dr Steven Badylak at the University of Pittsburgh, a pioneer in the field of Regenerative Medicine, had some interesting comments.  If a fetus in the womb loses a limb, it just grows back.  That’s because just before we are born, every cell in our body has the potential to become a part of any organ or limb.  Newts and salamanders grow back limbs their entire lives.  Dr Badylak believes humans should be able to do the same.  It’s just a matter of sending the cells the right signals or instructions.  Dr Badylak believes these signals come from chemicals floating around in the soup between the cells, the extra-cellular matrix.  The extra-cellular matrix used to be thought of as just the glue that holds the cells together.  But now we know it is an information highway.”

“And that’s where the mysterious white powder comes in.  Lee Spievack’s brother made it from the extra-cellular matrix of pig ladder.  There were no actual pig cells in the powder, just the dried extra-cellular matrix.  And when Lee sprinkled it on his finger, it turned back into soup with the growth signals the body needed to regrow the finger.  They are now looking at regrowing major body parts and organs within the foreseeable future.”  

Clive Comments

The potential of the human body is beyond incredible.  We just need to give it what it needs.  We are discovering that the effects on our body from what we eat and what we think are just as profound.  If we give our body what it needs on all fronts, those of us who do so will find ourselves moving into a new era of health and longevity.  That is called synergy, where the results equal more than the sum of the parts.  We often find that we are limited only by our imagination and our taking action.  Imagine living close to one thousand years of age, as did those who lived in the pre-world-flood era, not that long ago, with the health, energy, and vitality of a young adult!  But there are things we need to do, and things we need to refrain from doing, to get there.  Every coin has two sides.  But what is most encouraging...  our future will be better than our past.  

Health is a choice.  What health is not: fate determined by your genetics.  What health is: the end result of the choices you have made, or your lifestyle.  Keep in mind that YOU are the only one that determines your destiny.    

“Let your food be your medicine, and let your medicine be your food.”  Hippocrates 400 B.C.  By those in the know today, those are your antioxidant rich, low glycemic (diabetic friendly), non-cephalic, nutrient dense, superfoods.