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How to wean yourself from dependence on Laxatives whether drugs or herbal

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I have observed from friends and family that they are quite satisfied with being dependent on laxatives and see no harm in being dependent on them. Whether the laxative is a drug like Dulcolax or a single herb like Senna Tea or a herbal concoction like Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea, it is inadvisable for you to be taking such powerful emergency stuff on a regular basis. It does not matter if it is everyday, once a week or once a month, if you are dependent on it to poop, it’s not good… you can do better!

The danger of being dependent on laxatives are plenty. There is malnutrition. There is loss of natural colon disposal function to the point that you cannot live / survive / poop without the use of such laxative tools. And what may be worse is there may come a point in time you will need stronger and stronger laxatives until nothing works. My grandmother is at that terminal point.

Constipation is a root cause of many diseases. Pooping is a primary cleansing mechanism of our bodies and by all means must be fully efficient like clockwork.

How to wean yourself from laxatives?

First you must know that the common hearsay about fiber being good for you is totally and completely wrong for your colon. The people who do long time fiber will have larger stools and will later on regret the loss of their colon’s natural muscular movement, just too much bulk, that is not the design of the colon. Learn more about how wrong fiber is in the book Fiber Menace at www.fibermenace.com

Second, what really makes people poop is easily digestible food like FRUIT and FAT.

If you are on a regular SAD diet like most people, you need to eat more fruit rather than starches. Replace starches with more fruit. Organic fruit, low glycemic fruit, hydrating fruits. Water in hydrating fruit is more effective than ingesting liquids.

The issue of FAT. Fat is a lubricating and poop reflex activating foodstuff. Freshly opened coconut meat, extra virgin olive oil as food will be good for you. Lightly frying with ghee / clarified butter is good fat. If you can find raw grass fed butter, eat that as well. If you lightly cook your steaks rare, grass fed beef steaks with lots of thick fat is good fat. Fat from organic / fertilized raw eggs is also good. Organic animal, especially raw FAT FAT FAT FAT FAT is good for you.

Just remember fruit and fat and you should have regular poops. See www.cavemanforum.com and www.rawpaleoforum.com for correct human diet for easy pooping.

What about the hard cases? Well you might want to look into repairing and re-optimizing your colon with herbs. My teacher www.barefootherbalistmh.com has his LBB capsules that re-train and fix the colon into tip top shape. I took these LBB capsules for 2 months and along with my diet change, my poop has been effortless. At one point it was too fast I needed to slow it down.

For the past 2 years I have been independent of any laxatives. I have absolutely no need for them. I save money and I’m safe from any side effects they may have. Laxatives were never meant to be taken regularly long term.

Fireworks cause Russian Club to go ablaze, many die

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We should all learn from the mistakes of the past so we do not repeat them. A few years ago a fire gutted a club in Quezon City and killed many people too. This new incident happened in Russia, this time with indoor fireworks?

It is near new year celebrations again and many fireworks are set off in Manila. 2 weeks ago we watched the 2009 Pyro Olympics in Fort Bonifacio, but the rest of the whole competition was re-scheduled to January 2010 as their website states that they have safety issues due to the softened grounds.

As is usual, the Philippine department of health’s crusade to minimize fireworks use by personal folk continues. But as usual, there will be more victims who have not yet learned their lessons. Please learn from the mistakes of others, let the professionals explode the fireworks. Malls have them now regularly, be happy with that. The Pyro Olympics continues in January, be happy with that.

I stopped buying fireworks when I started feeling the cost. My in-laws stopped exploding fireworks when my wife’s cousin lost his whole hand when he held a crying cow which instead exploded in his hand blowing away his whole right hand.

Indoor fireworks? Give me a break. Authorities can only do so much. We the people need to be responsible and to be safety aware.

December fruits in season: avocados, melons, chicos, indian mangoes

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Ah December, the Christmas season and a whole new set of fruits to look forward to. The following price quotes are from Farmers Market in Cubao, Quezon City. Chicos are pretty much affordable now selling at 60 pesos per kilo. Indian mangoes at 50 pesos per kilo. Avocados are still expensive at more than 100 pesos per kilo. Melons have gone down to 60 pesos per kilo.

Avocados are a good source for high amounts of raw fat. Indian mangoes are a good source of vitamin C. Chicos make my stools hard, but it seems too sweet, can’t have more than 2 at a time. Melons are very good hydrating fruit.

Some wise raw paleo member once said that maybe water is the best nutrient you can find in fruit.

For less than 1 month just in November we were having ponkan from Nueva Ecija but it just suddenly all vanished. It all suddenly vanished replaced by a Taiwan ponkan variety. It’s more expensive, but tastes the same. I don’t know if the Taiwanese put chemicals on their ponkan. Anyone who knows?

5 year old child peeling ponkan

5 year old child peeling ponkan

RARE! The only Dr. Stanley Bass interview on Youtube!

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Wow, this interview is like a dream come true. I have always admired Dr. Stanley Bass’ website. He is 91 years old and would like to give away all his knowledge for free in his website. Use his experience, use his experiments… incorporate them in your thought processes, you do not need to make the same mistakes, learn from Dr. Stanley Bass.

Dr Bass has done almost all diets and many different fasts there is and used to have a natural hygiene clinic. He has written books that have helped people improve their diets. Dr. Bass eats raw meat, raw vegetables and raw fruits.

There are people like me who are self taught, self learning. But there are people who you need to reach out to, to guide them to a level where they can relate to you and improve their diet and all their diseases go away… cured!

Because of Stanley Bass and other like him, I stand on their giant shoulders and I can achieve more of where I want my health direction to go.

Let’s all thank Paul Nison for this rare interview of Dr. Stanley Bass:


PART 1


PART 2


PART 3


PART 4

and now for Paul Nison’s video reply to Dr. Stanley Bass’ interview:

Visit Dr. Stanley Bass’ super informative website at www.drbass.com

Paul Nison on a roll, interviews former vegan, now raw paleo foodist John Fielder

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So Paul Nison is on a roll. He is in a rapid state of discovery and it shows with who he is interviewing. This time, he goes to John Fielder of Australia. John did raw vegan some 5 to 10 years then added raw goat meat to his diet of still mostly vegetables and fruits.

John Fielder says he does not need a lot of animal foods to feel functional… sort of still towing the vegan line to minimize the eating of raw animals. John had realized a long time ago that if he went on meat less for a long enough time, he became non-functional.

I commented on Paul’s blog that I feel a whole lot better with raw fatty beef than skinny goats. And he approved my comment! Awesome!

Maybe Paul needs to visit the www.rawpaleoforum.com where there are a great number of former raw vegans… the obvious progression is to eat raw animal foods. Maybe he can do interviews with the people over there. There Paul can find people who eat a whole lot more raw animal foods, there he can even find people who eat purely raw animal foods and shun vegetables and shun fruit altogether! Just like what Stanley Bass said, eskimos find complete nutrition in their animal foods.

Me? I tried raw vegan and I lasted only 2 months. I’m now counted in the majority raw animal foods department with fruit, but on a high animal raw fat diet and low carb with fruits.

Paul Nison, Raw Food Guru gives up on raw veganism after 15 years

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Paul Nison is a true health seeker who unfortunately got stuck in the raw vegan religion for 15 years. Now that he encountered serious health issues, he is on a quest to find something better for himself and his new young family. He is starting with some cooked vegetables to be able to digest them, and some raw diary which has given him some euphoria.

What I would like to challenge Paul Nison is to seek the true path to healthy eating without those dogmatic raw vegan boundaries. This will eventually lead him to investigate raw animal foods, initially raw fertilized eggs, then raw fish and raw sea food, then raw land animals like raw beef, raw lamb, etc.

Yes Paul, raw is the right track, you just have to try raw meat over raw dairy and experiment with a high fat low carb diet. It’s still raw Paul, it’s still raw. And that’s what your show is all about right? Raw?


Part 1 of his testimony giving up 100% raw veganism.

Part 2 of Paul’s testimony with his wife chiming in.

Why I am no longer a raw vegan Part 2 by Paul Nison

This video is a followup video of why I am no longer a raw food vegan. Also tomorrow on my show I will have someone who is a 40 year raw foodist who decided we need animal products in our diet. The first 3 people to guess who it is before tomorrow’s show I will send a free Daylight Diet DVD. Hint, I interviewed him in one of my books.

Visit Paul Nison’s website at http://paulnison.blogspot.com/

David Wolfe Hits the Raw Vegan wall and eats animals to survive

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A video interview shows David Wolfe admitting to eating live ants and moths to get vital nutrition his body needs to survive. These are the times we are waiting for, the raw vegan gurus one by one falling victim to their own raw vegan dogma of not wanting to “hurt” animals by not eating them. David Wolfe hits the raw vegan wall at last.

It should be obvious to raw vegan followers that long term raw veganism is NOT about you achieving the best health possible. Long term raw veganism is about loving animals more than yourself. Long term raw veganism is about shunning your own humanity that humans are a largely carnivorous species and forcing yourself to not consume animal sourced nutrition… going down to eating solely raw fruits, raw vegetables, raw nuts to live.

I myself tried raw veganism under the tutorship of Dr. Tam Mateo and his wonderful raw vegan recipes. Sure it was cheap. Sure it cleansed me out. But 2 months was all I could survive on. I couldn’t let myself lose weight until I got blown away by the wind. Long term raw veganism causes MALNUTRITION. After 2 months I’d had enough of raw veganism. Eating cooked animal food was better than NO ANIMAL FOOD.

Of course later on I found out that RAW ANIMAL FOOD was the NUMBER 1 SUPER FOOD of all time, which has given me the best health I have ever had in my entire life.

So David Wolfe eats live ants and live moths. Give it a little more time and we will see David Wolfe admitting to finally eating fatty raw grass fed beef. What good are his raw vegan endorsements riches if he succumbs to illness huh?

The best revolution of the raw food movement is yet to come as more and more people realize that raw meat is the bomb. That raw veganism was just a stage they had to suffer to appreciate what it truly means to be human by eating raw meat.

Many raw vegans have realized what David Wolfe is admitting to. Many raw vegans have joined our camp, the raw paleolithic tribe at the raw paleo forum. Where we strive to achieve the best health possible. Visit www.rawpaleoforum.com