FAQ

Q1: I cannot believe that there is cure for asthma. Is it possible to be a cure, and not in the medical school books?

A: I always like to give the example of Hungarian doctor IGNAZ PHILIPP SEMMELWEIS who was ridiculed to the point he lost his sanity for his ideea that people get sick due to uncleanliness... He who demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as "childbed fever") was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand-washing behavior by medical care-givers. He made this discovery in 1847 while working in the Maternity Department of the Vienna Lying-in Hospital. His failure to convince his fellow doctors led to a tragic conclusion, however, he was ultimately vindicated. This alone should make you revise what we know as absolute truth. keep an open mind, and the results will not be delayed much.

Q: Is it more than just bizarre to say that breathing problems are the direct consequence of increased breathing. Is it not correct to think the more you breathe the more oxygenated your cells are?
A: This is what I call the boomerang effect. In asthma, too much breathing results in restriction of oxygenation at cellular level (Verigo-Bohr effect). Similarly the more sugar you ingest the more starved the cells are of fuel. This condition is called diabetes. Down the same reasoning, the more food one puts in the body, the more lack of energy and tiredness is experienced. Why all these seeming "paradoxes"? Is it possible that we do not have a clue about the NEGATIVE FEEDBACK mechanisms of regulation? In order to maintain a balance, any system (mechanical, electronic, chemical and even biological) requires negative feedback.
That is: "A small fraction of the O/P is returned to the I/P for comparison and control". Based on that information (I/P to O/P ratio) the SYSTEM will take control action!
In other words, any negative feedback system that aims at regulating, will block the I/P that will throw it off balance, hence diabetes, asthma and gluttony.
Both low and high I/P conditions are regulated by a system. Too low O/P will cause the I/P to flow easily to O/P. Too high O/P will cause the I/P to cease flowing to O/P.
Very simple. This is the whole theory of feedback systems simplified.

Q: Why aren’t people educated about this in school, or why is it not adopted as preventive measure?
A: People begin to listen to this untraditional way only after all traditional methods have failed. This is so, because people (me included) perceive that it is a sacrifice to give up a number of habits we held familiar and therefore dear, unaware that these are the very root cause of the pain and suffering. Never judge a book by its cover applies in this case as well. The method works because it addresses THE CAUSES of asthma and not merely to mask the pain and symptoms.

Q: are you claiming that sugar, wheat flower and canned foods are bad and should be banned?
A: Far from it! It should not be banned, rather we must become aware. The problem lies not in the foods themselves, because the food themselves are wholly neutral.
The lifestyle combined with ingesting these refined foods will not go along well.
Refined foods are pure fuel, and are a very suitable meal for high physical level lifestyles, never for low or moderate. The reason is that sugar, starches and carbohydrate rich foods make cholesterol (this is one of many functions liver has), which if not burned by physical effort will build up in the blood stream. The nature invented a very ingenious trick to save us from the excess of cholesterol these foods produce: it is called FIBER.
However, the refined foods lack this very thing: the fiber to collect the excess cholesterol produced by the very refined foods. Cool, isn't it?
Therefore, especially if physical effort is low, never consume foods without the NATURAL fiber they contain. And always, balance energy intake to your level of physical activity.

Q: Is apple jus bad for you?
A: Yes and No. The complete answer is: it is extremely good if you also consume the pulp and fiber that result from squeezing the apple. Without this fiber, it is partially beneficial, and that is in the case in which there is physical activity to burn the pure energy contained in the squeezed (or refined and filtered)jus. Without the fiber, whatever excess results from over fueling cannot be collected by the fiber in the intestine, and the cholesterol returns in the bloodstream by reabsorbing. A seldom consumption counts not, however frequent consumption and no physical effort result in long term problems.

Q: Are there miraculous foods that cure?
A: Yes and No. Apple is a miracle food and so is grape, olive, black radish and others. However, if combined with foods that have destructive potential they become useless, and here is the dilemma. Eating spoiled food and finishing it with an apple will not make you well. You will still get sick from ingesting expired food. And here lies the big confusion. Superimposing foods that are degrading for your lifestyle over life giving foods will make them all the same. Only separating and eating mono-diet for a while we can classify it for OUR PARTICULAR case and lifestyles and age group.
However, fast for a few hours and then eat an apple. This is the only way to see how miraculous the apple is. Never mix foods. This way we may never find the culprit or the cure. This is a small secret with mighty potential.

Q: Is oxygen supplement helpful?
A: You must have seen people wearing oxygen tubes to the nostrils, breathing from an O2 tank. What is not very visible is that an increase in the O2 concentration from 21% to 80% in the air we breathe will raise the blood level of oxygen from 93-95 to maximum 98%. Bellow 92% we die, and above 98% it is never achieved. So, the actual increase is less than 5% oxygenation of the hemoglobin. What is less known is the fact that this increase hardly produces an increase in O2 perfusion at the level of the cell, where the O2 is needed. In order to cross the cell membrane into the cell, there is got to be a tidal concentration of CO2 coming back from the cells to the venous blood (Verigo-Bohr effect). Without this there is no O2 exchange! The only way to produce this CO2 there is by avoiding loosing it through overbreathing and secondly with light physical activity like walking. Never try to put out vigorous effort, for it takes time to rebuild the good health.

Q: I do not believe that what I eat can be responsible in any way for my breathing problem. I believe that the body should handle anything.
A: To some extend it is correct: the body is equipped to handle it. What is obvious is that certain substances have an effect on our body, and the body reacts sometimes violently to excess of these substances. The body has set limits and they differ from person to person to age group, gender and genetic inheritance. Hence the large spectrum of possible outcomes. Examples are alcohol, hallucinogenic drugs, caffeine and so on. These give a quick and acute punch to most people. Some other substances can have a long term effect and not as obvious and quick such as alcohol. Of these, the carbohydrates (colas, sugars, and flower products, potatoes, rice) make the liver produce and store fat and cholesterol in long run spanning months and years. This is what the liver does among other functions: cholesterol from simple glucose.
It is common knowledge today that cholesterol in excess is degenerative, and the only ways to take it out without side effect is by reducing intake of carbs and animal cholesterol or exercise. Nothing in between really.

Q: Is there a difference between raw fruits and vegetables and cooked fruits and vegetables?
A: Yes, a big difference. In the raw state, they act more like an intestinal broom, and less of a nutritional potential. In a cooked state, the starches in vegetables are transformed by heat into simple sugars easily absorbed in the intestines, and the fiber is partially broken down. In this form it is more a nutrient than a cleansing brush.

Definition of Terms

Starch: A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.
Foods having a high content of starch are: rice, breads, and potatoes.

Glucose:A monosaccharide sugar, C6H12O6, occurring widely in most plant and animal tissue. It is the principal circulating sugar in the blood and the major energy source of the body.
A colorless to yellowish syrupy mixture of dextrose, maltose, and dextrins containing about 20 percent water, used in confectionery, alcoholic fermentation, tanning, and treating tobacco. Also called starch syrup. A monosaccharide sugar the blood that serves as the major energy source of the body; it occurs in most plant and animal tissue. Also called blood sugar.

Glycogen: A polysaccharide, (C6H10O5)n, that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals and occurs primarily in the liver and muscle tissue and broken down into glucose when needed by the body . It is readily converted to glucose as needed by the body to satisfy its energy needs. Also called animal starch.

Glucosamine: An amino derivative of glucose, C6H13NO5, that is a component of many polysaccharides and is the basic structural unit of chitin.

Alcohol: A colorless volatile flammable liquid, C2H5OH, synthesized or obtained by fermentation of sugars and starches and widely used, either pure or denatured, as a solvent and in drugs, cleaning solutions, explosives, and intoxicating beverages. Also called ethanol, ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol.

Cholesterol: A white crystalline substance, C27H45OH, found in animal tissues and various foods, that is normally synthesized by the liver and is important as a constituent of cell membranes and a precursor to steroid hormones. Its level in the bloodstream can influence the pathogenesis of certain conditions, such as the development of atherosclerotic plaque and coronary artery disease. The most abundant steroid in animal tissues.

Fatty acid: Any of a large group of monobasic acids, especially those found in animal and vegetable fats and oils, having the general formula CnH2n+1COOH. Characteristically made up of saturated or unsaturated aliphatic compounds with an even number of carbon atoms, this group of acids includes palmitic, stearic, and oleic acids.

Fat: Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.

Steriod: Any of numerous naturally occurring or synthetic fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms arranged in four rings and including the sterols and bile acids, adrenal and sex hormones, certain natural drugs such as digitalis compounds, and the precursors of certain vitamins.

Protein: Any of a group of complex organic macromolecules that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and usually sulfur and are composed of one or more chains of amino acids. Proteins are fundamental components of all living cells and include many substances, such as enzymes, hormones, and antibodies, that are necessary for the proper functioning of an organism. They are essential in the diet of animals for the growth and repair of tissue and can be obtained from foods such as meat, fish, eggs, milk, and legumes.
A ny of numerous naturally occurring extremely complex substances (as an enzyme or antibody) that consist of amino acid residues joined by peptide bonds, contain the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, usually sulfur, and occasionaly other elements (as phosphorus or iron), that are essential constituents of all living cells, that are synthesized from raw materials by plants but assimilated as separate amino acids by animals, that are both acidic and basic and usually colloidal in nature although many have been crystallized, and that are hydrolyzable by acids, alkalies, proteolytic enzymes, and putrefactive bacteria to polypeptides, to simpler peptides, and ultimately to alpha-amino acids. The total nitrogenous material in plant or animal substances.

Urea: A water-soluble compound, CO(NH2)2, that is the major nitrogenous end product of protein metabolism and is the chief nitrogenous component of the urine in mammals and other organisms. Also called carbamide.

Amino-acid: An organic compound containing an amino group (NH2), a carboxylic acid group (COOH), and any of various side groups, especially any of the 20 compounds that have the basic formula NH2CHRCOOH, and that link together by peptide bonds to form proteins or that function as chemical messengers and as intermediates in metabolism.

Peptide: Any of various natural or synthetic compounds containing two or more amino acids linked by the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another.

Enzyme: Any of numerous proteins or conjugated proteins produced by living organisms and functioning as specialized catalysts for biochemical reactions.

Vitamin: Any of various fat-soluble or water-soluble organic substances essential in minute amounts for normal growth and activity of the body and obtained naturally from plant and animal foods.
Originally from Latin: VITA meaning LIFE. Any of various organic substances that are essential in minute quantities to the nutrition of most animals and some plants, act especially as coenzymes and precursors of coenzymes in the regulation of metabolic processes but do not provide energy or serve as building units, and are present in natural foodstuffs or are sometimes produced within the body.

Mucus: The viscous, slippery substance that consists chiefly of mucin, water, cells, and inorganic salts and is secreted as a protective lubricant coating by cells and glands of the mucous membranes.

Mucin: Any of a group of glycoproteins found especially in the secretions of mucous membranes.

Glycoproteins: Any of a group of conjugated proteins that contain a carbohydrate as the nonprotein component.

Triglyceride: A naturally occurring ester of three fatty acids and glycerol that is the chief constituent of fats and oils.

Lipoprotein: Any of a group of conjugated proteins in which at least one of the components is a lipid. Lipoproteins, classified according to their densities and chemical qualities, are the principal means by which lipids are transported in the blood.

LDL ( low-density lipoprotein): A complex of lipids and proteins, with greater amounts of lipid than protein, that transports cholesterol in the blood. High levels are associated with an increased risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

HDL (high-density lipoprotein): A complex of lipids and proteins in approximately equal amounts that functions as a transporter of cholesterol in the blood. High levels are associated with a decreased risk of atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Addiction: Compulsive physiological need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal; broadly : persistent compulsive use of a substance known by the user to be physically, psychologically, or socially harmful.

Dietary Fiber: Coarse, indigestible plant matter, consisting primarily of polysaccharides, that when eaten stimulates intestinal peristalsis. (peristalsis: the wavelike muscular contractions of the alimentary canal or other tubular structures by which contents are forced onward toward the opening)

Polysaccharide: Any of a class of carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose, consisting of a number of monosaccharides joined by glycosidic bonds.

Monosaccharide: Any of several carbohydrates, such as tetroses, pentoses, and hexoses, that cannot be broken down to simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Also called simple sugar.

Lactic acid: A syrupy, water-soluble liquid, C3H6O3, produced in muscles as a result of anaerobic glucose metabolism, and present in sour milk, molasses, various fruits, and wines. A synthetic form of the compound is used in foods and beverages as a flavoring and preservative, in dyeing and textile printing, and in pharmaceuticals.

Enema: The injection of liquid into the rectum through the anus for cleansing, for stimulating evacuation of the bowels, or for other therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.

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...Blood is oxygenated at least 92% all the time? Did U know it cannot be oxygenated more than 98%? Therefore oxygenation level is 92-98%. Bellow 92% body cannot function and death follows.

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... Through breathing oxygen from a tank you cannot increase oxygenation of the blood more than 5%?

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... Oxygenation of blood has no direct relationship to tissue and cell oxygenation. Blood is just an oxygen buffer and oxygen carrier, and in itself just carries the supply to the intracellular fluids.

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... Oxygen is dissociated from the hemoglobin and released to the intracellular fluid only if there is sufficient CO2 in the intracellular fluid (Verigo-Bohr effect)? It is impossible for the hemoglobin to break the molecular bond and release it, unless CO2 is there to "catalyze" the process? In a sense can be said that we cannot oxygenate the cells if we do not produce CO2. By an ironic twist, the "waste" gas is the one that makes breathing of oxygen possible at the cell level.

Hippocratic Oath - Classical Version

I swear by Apollo Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art - if they desire to learn it - without fee and covenant; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but no one else.

I will apply dietetic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment; I will keep them from harm and injustice.

I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art.

I will not use the knife, not even on sufferers from stone, but will withdraw in favor of such men as are engaged in this work.

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself, holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

If I fulfil this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot.


Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. From The Hippocratic Oath: Text, Translation, and Interpretation, by Ludwig Edelstein.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.1943.

Hippocratic Oath -- Modern Version
(My note: there is no refference about diet here...)

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.


Written in 1964 by Louis Lasagna, Academic Dean of the School of Medicine at Tufts University, and used in many medical schools today.