HIGH-PROTEIN FOODS
When the movement for naturopathy and a meatless diet began in the nineteenth century, medical scientists were endeavoring to prove by mathematical figures that physical and mental efficiency have to be kept up through daily replacement of protein, with a certain quantity for the average human. In other words, it became fashionable—a mania—to suggest and to do exactly the opposite of nature’s laws whenever a person felt weak, tired rapidly, or became exhausted or sick in any way. 44
You now know, through Lesson V , the source of Vitality and Efficiency. You also now know that the strength of a sick body can be increased when foods are not eaten, especially protein.
High protein foods act as stimulation for a certain time, because they decompose at once in the human body into poison. It is a commonly known fact that any kind of animal substance becomes very poisonous as soon as it enters into oxidation with air, especially at a higher temperature as exists in the human body.
The learned have gone so far as to prove that humans belong biologically in the class of meat-eating animals, while the descendant theory proves that they belong to the ape family, who are exclusively fruit eaters. You can see how ridiculous—contradictory—so-called "science" is.
The fundamental fact and truth of why the grown man or woman does not need so much protein as the old physiology claims is shown in the combination of mother’s milk, which does not contain over two and a half to three percent protein, and nature builds up with that the foundation of a new body.
But the error goes further than that in their endeavor to replace something that is not destroyed, not used up, not "consumed" at all—as you learned in the previous lesson about the medical error of metabolism. The physiology has a principally wrong conception of change of matter, because these "experts," the founders of such a kind of science, lacked all knowledge of chemistry at all and organic chemistry especially. Life is based on change of matter in the meaning of physiological chemical transformation, but never on the absurd idea that you must eat protein to build, to grow, protein of muscles and tissue. Most certainly not; for instance, is it necessary that a cow must drink milk to produce milk? 45 A prominent expert of physiological chemistry, Dr. von Bunge, Professor of Physiological Chemistry at the University of Basel, Switzerland, whose books do not endorse the average standing of medical teaching, says that life, vitality, is based on transformation of substances (foods) through which power, heat, and electricity become free and act as efficiency in the animal body.
You will learn in the lesson about blood building that a certain change of matter happens in the human body, and how protein is produced through transformation from other food substances. This change of matter takes place not by replacement of old cells by new ones, but that mineral substances are the building blocks of animal and vegetable life, and the replacement is of much smaller quantities than as now taught.
The reason a "one-sided" meat eater can live a relatively longer time than the vegetarian "starch-eater" is easy to understand after having learned Lesson V. The first one produces less solid obstructions by smaller quantities of meat-foods than the starch "overeater," but their later diseases are more dangerous because they accumulate more poisons, pus, and uric acid.
If you know the truth about human nourishment—and you are going to learn it later—you will be amused to note how physiologists grope in darkness—how they made up a standard quantity of necessary albumen for the average human, which standard, by the way, is slowly getting smaller. They, and even advanced "diet experts," estimate without knowing the great unknown; i.e., the waste in the human body. For thousands of previous years, humans have lived healthier without food value formulas, and I doubt very much if a single one of these physiologists ever gave their "chef" a suggestion of food values.
The entire proposition is a farce, masquerading as a so-called science. A few, like Professor Chittenden, 46 found through experimenting that energy and endurance increased with less food—especially less protein. Professor Hindhede 47 proved that albumen need hardly be considered, and Fletcher 48 outdid them all. He lived on one sandwich a day curing his so-called "incurable" disease and developed a tremendous endurance.
After I had overcome all fear as to the fatal consequences that would befall me if I failed to adhere strictly to "scientific protein" necessities, I found, experienced, and demonstrated the hitherto unknown and unbelievable fact that in the clean, mucus-free, and poison-free body, these foods poorest in protein—fruits—develop the highest energy and an unbelievable endurance.
If nitrogen, the essential part of protein, is an important factor to keep the human machine running—if vitality depends at all on nitrogen, then it seems to me that under these ideal conditions nitrogen is assimilated from the air.
Food from the Infinite! "P" (power) as a source of nourishment! What tremendous possibilities! I suggest that you read Lesson V over again, and you will realize these two facts:
When we allow the body to become clogged with mucus and other foreign obstructions such as calcium, phosphates, and similar waste materials, we may expect to have high blood pressure overburdening the heart in its efforts to keep the bloodstream circulating properly.