Macrobiotics and Eastern Thought
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As a child I was very sick. As a baby I almost died of bronchitis, and ever since until I was 15, I could not remember a single 3 months of my life that I did not have some kind of cold, trout infection or bronchitis. I needed antibiotics pills, penicillin injections or something similar few times a year. Oh, I really hated injections.
At the age of 15 I started with a no-protein diet in order to change the way I look. I was exercising a lot and became quiet muscular, but I was much more fascinated by the strength and outlook of Bruce Lee than the way Arnold Swarzenegger look like. Diet was created by my own ideas, while trying to avoid too many proteins. I stopped eating meat and started eating more vegetables, whole grains, grain sprouts ... As a side effect of this diet, my immunity improved drastically. It seemed that diseases did not come back . So then I first realized that diet and health are connected.
Then I read all the books about diet I came over. It took me 2 years of reading and experimenting with my own health to realize that there are some people who have already studied the same thing, who came to the similar results and who found more answers then me. I was 17 when I first started reading books about macrobiotics.
My sister was suffering from skin problems. She got her first acne only 7 years old. Ever since, her face was covered with acne and she had tried everything possible to get rid of it. After many years of trying every possible cream, cosmetology treatment, dermatological treatment, one dermatologist have put her on antibiotics, and she was taking antibiotics for two years, every day. Whenever she tried to stop with antibiotics, her face would be covered with acne the very next day, and she did not have any alternative.
When I was 18, and my sister Vanja was 19, we attended our first seminar on
Macrobiotics. It was 1987. It was 7 days seminar, with many lectures in different
subjects, including nutrition and diet, Qi Gong, Shiatsu, acupressure, traditional Chinese
medicine, Chinese monk diet, Feng Shui...
We were both fascinated by the things we learned from a man called Zlatko Pejic. Zlatko
Pejic is recognized expert on Chinese tradition, qi-gong, Tai Chi Cuan, acupressure,
Feng Shui... He was invited by Michio Kushi to the Kushi center where he has studied
Macrobiotics. He was the first macrobiotic consultant in Yugoslavia.
His lectures were really inspiring. From the first day of seminar we decided to stop
eating sugar and other junk and to start with health diet. After coming home from
that seminar, we continued with this diet. My sister stopped using
antibiotics, and her acne disappeared after two weeks. Since this time, neither my
sister, nor me have ever needed antibiotics.
Following years we have attended many seminars and lectures on health, macrobiotics, diet, nutrition, Shiatsu, Yumeiho (hip and spine correcting therapy), reflexology, acupuncture, psychology, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, biology, toxicology ...
On those seminars and lectures my sister and me introduced thousands of people of all ages who managed to cure incurable diseases including Cancer, Aids, Diabetes, Arthritis, Crohn's, Fibromyalgia, Asthma, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Colitis, Eczema, Psoriasis, Acne, Glaucoma, ... by cleansing, changing diet and lifestyle.
We become a cooking instructors, instructors in shiatsu and Yumeiho therapy. We started teaching other people. After years of experience we felt enough confident to begin giving dietary and lifestyle consultations to seriously sick people.
That was the beginning of my study.
The more I learn the more I realize how much still it is that I do not know. But some simple truth never change.
That truth is:
Most common cofactors of any disease are:
- Toxins
- Nutritional Deficiency
- Poor digestion and absorption
- Parasites
- Attitude
By working with people I learned a lot. I learned that diseases could have a thousands of different small causes and cofactors. I also learned that every single person could have need for special individual cures and diet. Some cures works only on very few people.
My story would be incomplete if I would not say something about people I owe a lot.
People who helpd me open my eyes and whos work is still a great source of inspiration:
Here are some of them:
Anthony J. Satillaro - Zlatko Pejic - Jadranka Boban - Dragan Vukovic - Michio Kushi - Avelin Kushi - Shizuko Yamamoto - Patrick Mc Cartney - Masayuki Saiony - Flavio Santim Zanata, - Bill Spear - Denny Waxman - Dr.Rudof Brouss - Dr.Max Gerson - Dr. Bernard Jensen - Dr.F.X.Mayr, founder of - the Mayr Therapy - Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark - Dr.Joel Wallach - Dr.Johanna Budwig - Dr.Udo Erasmus - John Matsen N.D. - Dr.Peter D'Adamo - Dr.Richard Shulze - Stanley Burrough - Larry Clapp - Dr.Loriane Day - Dr.Robert Bob Beck - Edgar Cayce - Dr. Weston Price, (D.D.S) - GEORGE - MEINIG, D.D.S - Royal Rife - Dr.Ralph Moss - Dr.Linus Pauling - and at least a hundred of other great health experts.
I never met Dr.Joel Wallach, but I must say that I have learned a lot from his book "Rear Earth- forbidden cures". He is certainly expert on the question of nutrition and essential minerals and other nutrients. I recommend you reading this book and listening his cassette "Dead doctors don't lie".
From Udo Erasmus, Ph.D.Nutrition, I learned a lot about oils and about essential fatty acids. His fantastic book about nutrition and health "Fats That Heal Fats That Kill" is certainly something that I would recommend to all of you who are interested in health. He is internationally recognized authority on health and nutrition, and is the ONLY Nutrition Doctor I met who really understood the whole picture about nutrition and health. If you ever get chance to attend his lectures, do not hesitate.
Book "Eating alive" by John Matsen N.D. is one of the the best books about how to improve digestion.
Dr.Richard Schulze is one of the best Medical Herbalist. His knowledge is becoming more and more accepted, thanks to the WWW.
Theory and studies of Peter D'Adamo expressed in his book "Eat right for your type" are also interesting, new and revolutionary. Those theoties are just going to be more and more common and accepted, thanks to the WWW.
Last years I am working as a computer network administrator and health and disease research is domain of my free time.
All truth goes through three stages:
First it is ridiculed.
Then it is violently opposed.
Finally it is accepted as self evident.
Schopenhauer
May your mind be filled with Wisdom...
May your eyes be filled with Beauty...
May your soul be filled with Peace...
May your heart be filled with Love...
"God, grant me
the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and wisdom to know the difference."
Francesco d'Assisi,1181 - 1226
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine,
but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame,
in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."
Thomas Edison
General Prevention
To avoid being exposed too long time to the harmful radiation of the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) from your computer screen, I recommend you this:
In summer 1992, I was organizing one day cooking workshops in Beograd, together with my parents. Many people were interested to learn cooking and we have had almost every weekend one workshop.
On one of those workshops came man called PZ.
Beginning of every workshop was usually introduction. All the people introduce themselves and say a little story about themselves.
Perica said that he has come to the seminar because his only child, 4 year old daughter has Leukemia. He also told us that before she was diagnosed with leukemia, she ate ice-cream every day for more than a year.
Her mother also loved chocolate and ice-cream. She ate it a lot, before, while pregnant and after pregnancy. He also ask me what is my opinion about some alternative cancer cure that was based on honey. I did not suggested him to use it.
Perica Z. also came on the next workshop. I suggested him that I should visit them in their house, see his daughter, see their flat and place where she sleeps, and give him more detailed recommendations for her diet.
I went to visit them already next week. I have forgotten name of his daughter, but for this story I will call her Liz.
Liz was quite lively child. Previous month she was on "Citostatics" (chemo therapy) treatment, and she has lost all her hair. While on treatment, she was very bad, but since treatment was over, she slowly recovered.
I could see that treatment have done more harm, than good. They knew that, too. Blood test was showing still very bad condition. I suggested them strict no-sweets health food macrobiotics diet with a lot of fresh fish and burdock soups.
I also suggested them to find someone who have goat, and to give her one cup of fresh goat milk every day.
Goats in Yugoslavia are almost half wild animals, and they eat much wider specter of plants than cows. Everything goat eats, find its way in its milk. Goat milk is very rich on omega3 Essential fatty acid and it has much more minerals and trace minerals than cow milk.
Next "Citostatics" treatment for Liz was suppose to be already in two weeks.
I told them that if she was my child, I would NEVER put her on that treatment.
Perica's parents were living in one little town on the coast of the Adriatic sea, so I suggested him to take Liz to his parents, because living on the sunny coast was certainly much healthier than living in Belgrade and receiving chemo treatment.
I never heard again from him. He never came back to another workshop. I thought they did not accepted my suggestions and they did not want to contact me because of that.
That kind of experience I have had often with parents of seriously sick children. Most parents are not ready to take responsibility for child's health on their own, and to say "no thanks" to doctors.
It is a great responsibility, and if they fail in their attempt to help their own child, and child die, they would never forgive themselves for not listening to doctors and at least giving a try to the standard treatments ( chemo therapy ).
Years have passed. I have moved to live in Norway and I have forgotten the story about Perica's daughter. A year or so ago I got a call from my sister Vanja. She told me an amazing story. My sister have got a letter from her best friend living now in South Africa.
My sister's best friend from her childhood was a girl called Spomenka, and befor war she was living in Sarajevo, in Bosnia.
When the war started in Sarajevo, Spomenka and her husband escaped to South African Republic. South African Republic was one of the few countries that have invited Bosnian refugees.
In her letter Spomenka writes about a men she introduced in South Africa. His name is PZ. and he has told her a story about health food and macrobiotics and about his daughter. His daughter is now fine, and he is very grateful for all the suggestions that he have got from family Stojkovic. Those suggestions have helped him save his daughter.
Many times people have said thanks for the suggestions and knowledge they got from me. But of all those thanks, Perica's thanks mean most for me. Of all the children I met who manage to beat cancer with right diet and lifestyle, Liz was the youngest one.
I hope that Liz and her family will never again have to learn from Leukemia.
One more story about leukemia
This is a story about my good friend PJ.
I introduced him 1987, in Belgrade, when I first started attending seminars and workshops on health food. That time he was already cured.
In his late forty's he was diagnosed with Leukemia.
Doctors who diagnosed him told him that he has less than 4 months of life. He started with strict health food diet called macrobiotic diet and with body building.
He stopped drinking coffee, alcohol, milk, and soft drinks. He stopped eating meat, milk products, sugar, tropical fruit, margarine and started exercising every day. I am not sure if it took him 3 or 4 months, but he was totally cured in less than 4 months.
He did not used any of the western medicine treatments.
So, instead of being dead, he went back to his doctor, and doctor made blood test. Results of blood test showed that he was totally healthy. His doctor did not believed him that it was done only with diet and exercises.
His story vas published in many Yugoslavian newspapers. The only comment doctors have had on his story was that he have had "spontaneous remission", and that it has nothing to do with diet or with body building.
His story, and stories published in Michio Kushi's book "Cancer Prevention Diet", as well as the story of Dr.Anthony J. Sattilaro, have inspired thousands of people in ex Yugoslavia to try this approach in curing cancer. They were mainly learning from the books.
The first books translated in Serbo-Croatian language were books written by Michio Kushi and by Dr. Sattilaro. Thanks to those books, in Ex Yugoslavia Macrobiotic health food diet was metaphor for "Cancer Diet".
To understand it better, here is a small story about the first health food seminar that Zlatko Pejic and Jadranka Boban were suppose to hold in Belgrade. Few weeks before seminar they were told by organizers that there will be some certain number of people on this seminar. When they came to hold seminar, there was only one third of people that were suppose to come. When they asked where are the others, the answer was:>They are dead.< For most of the people, Health food was last thing to try, after nothing else worked.
After dozens of people managed to cure cancer by following Health food macrobiotics diet, most doctors understood that "spontaneous remission" is not good enough explanation, and that diet is important factor in curing cancer. So, many of them started even recommending it, together with standard therapies.
When my mother was diagnosed with breast tumor in 1989, her doctor did not mind she try with diet.
Petar J. died 1994, after Leukemia returned. That year he was working as salesman in the coffee shop, exposed to very strong smell of coffee. He was not exercising any more. He started with drinking coffee. He forgot his cancer prevention diet. He was emotionally down.
He thought that he is healthy enough to support some coffee and some bad food. But he was not.
Disease did not give him a second chance. He died two months from the moment he was diagnosed. Diet did not help him. There was simply not enough time. His body knew how to cure cancer, but this time he did not have enough time.
But his example have inspired many people in curing and preventing diseases and his life certainly had purpose.
This story is not unique. I have meet hundreds of people who managed to cure all kind of cancers. Most of them are still alive.
It is also important to learn that if you once cure cancer, you have to be aware that cancer can come back if your diet and lifestyle are not good enough.
Our body knows how to cure cancer, but only if we give it a chance.