BLOOD COMPOSITION
The logical consequence of the first three errors of the Old Physiology is the problem of composition of human blood as not only what it should be but also as a fact of "scientific examination." The error is so great that it borders on insanity.
The problem is this: Are the white corpuscles living cells of vital importance to protect and maintain life, to destroy germs of disease, and to immunize the body against fever, infection, etc., as the standard doctrines of physiology and pathology teach?
Or, are they just the opposite—waste, decayed, undigested, unusable food substances, mucus, pathogens, as Dr. Thomas Powell calls them? 50 They are indigestible by the human body, unnatural, and therefore not assimilated at all. Are they, in fact, the waste from high-protein and starchy foods which the average mixed eater of western civilization stuffs in their stomach three times a day? Is what I call "mucus" the foundational cause of all diseases?
Pathology proves that by saying that the white corpuscles are increased in case of disease and physiology says they increase during digestion in the healthy body, and that they are derived from high-protein foods.
This teaching is absolutely correct, and the logical consequence of the error of high-protein foods.
Medical "science" sees and must see it as normal conditions of health, and that the non-sick must have these white blood corpuscles in their circulation because everybody has them. There is no person in existence in the western civilization whose body has not been continually stuffed since childhood with cow milk, meat, eggs, potatoes, and cereal products. No person today without mucus!
In my first published article, I promulgated the gigantic idea that the white race is an unnatural, a sick, and a pathological one. First, the colored skin pigment is lacking in coloring mineral salts; second, the blood is continually overfilled by white blood corpuscles, mucus, and waste with white color. This is the reason for the white appearance of the entire body. 51
The skin pores of the white people are constipated by white, dry mucus—their entire tissue system is filled up and filled out with it. No wonder that they look white and pale and anemic. Everybody knows that an extreme case of paleness is a "bad sign." When I appeared with my friend in a public air bath, after having lived for several months on a mucusless diet with sun baths, we looked like Indians and people believed that we belonged to another race. This condition was doubtless due to the great amount of red blood corpuscles and the great lack of white blood corpuscles. I can notice a trace of paleness in my complexion the morning after eating one piece of bread.
This is not the place to bring up all of the arguments against this terrible error about the nature and "function" of the white blood corpuscles believed erroneously by medical "science." Any one desiring a real scientific proof of this may read Dr. Thomas Powell's Fundamentals and Requirements of Health and Disease , published in 1909—a few years after my "mucus theory" was published in Europe, and later translated into English in 1913 as Rational Fasting and Regeneration Diet , neither of us knowing anything regarding each other’s publication. Dr. Powell teaches in principal the same as I do, so far as the cause of all diseases, the white corpuscles, and all these medical errors are concerned. The only difference being that he calls "pathogen" what I call "mucus."
In the method of elimination and diet, however, I differ principally and entirely from him; but even in the composition of the red blood corpuscles, the blood plasma at all, the blood serum, and the so-called hemoglobin, medical "science" lacks perfection.
The two most important facts for us to know are these:
I presume that the truth and importance is this: The red color of blood is the most characteristic quality of this "quite special sap" and is due to iron oxide, rust! 52 Therefore, it is self-evident how important iron is in the blood. Further—the sugar stuff is of high importance besides its nourishing quality, as it is an essential part in the perfect blood hemoglobin, which if in a perfect state has to become thick, like gelatin, as soon as it comes in contact with the atmospheric air for the purpose of closing a wound. Read in my book Rational Fasti ng my test of a nonbleeding, immediate healing wound, without secretion of pus and mucus, without pain and inflammation.
One truth regarding the conditions of the human blood found out by doctors is that acidity is a sign of disease. It is no small wonder that this readily happens with the mixed eater, when they fill the stomach daily with meat, starch, sweets, fruits, etc., all at the same time.
Make a personal test if you are not fully convinced. Eat a regular dinner, and one hour after eating, get it out of your stomach and you will have a sour fermenting mixture of a terrible odor, reminding you of the garbage pail, and which when fed to hogs causes even these animals to slowly become sick.
Or, if you do not care to be so heroic, try the following experiment: Next time you sit down to your Sunday dinner, have the menu served for an imaginary guest. Empty their portion in a cooking vessel, using the same quantities as you are eating and drinking yourself. Stir thoroughly. Then cook on an oven at blood heat for not less than 30 minutes. Place a cover on the vessel and leave overnight. When you remove the cover in the morning, a distinct surprise will await you.