The Mother Of All Robots

In 1980, NASA proposed a complete solution to the problems of pollution and population growth. Their study cost 12 million dollars and was published in the form of a large book titled “Advanced Automation for Space Missions.” It’s available as a free PDF file, a printed book, and as web pages.

NASA’s solution was simple: They’d build a fully automated, solar-powered factory and land it on the Moon in the year 2000. Without any help from human workers, the 100 ton factory would mine the soil around it, would manufacture spare parts to maintain and repair itself, and would manufacture enough extra parts to assemble a copy of itself in one year. Each factory would build a copy of itself the following year, and so on. The factory population would increase exponentially according to the simple formula below:

factories = 2years

In 10 years there would be a thousand factories, and in 30 years there would be a billion. The billion 100-ton factories that NASA proposed would be less than one millionth of 1% of the Moon.

fig 5.12 Self-Replicating Factory

fig 5.19 Self-Growing Factory

At any time, new software could be loaded into the factories to produce consumer goods like solar power cells, electric cars, and automated greenhouses for delivery to Earth in great numbers. The flexibility to change production is a key aspect of the factories. By definition, each factory would have the capacity to produce its own weight of hi-tech machinery annually: their combined industrial output would be 100 billion tons. That’s 10 tons (about 6 mid-size cars worth) a year for each of 10 billion people. At that rate it would take more than 100 years to use-up only 0.0001% of our moon. Long before Earth’s moon was harmed or depleted, industry would be moved to a large asteroid or moon in the outer solar system.

In this future scenario there would be no industrial pollution on Earth, limitless solar energy would be available, public wealth would be maximized, and the Moon would be barely touched by it. That’s the recipe for utopia.

As documented in NASA’s study, all the required resources are in plentiful supply on the moon. Since we already know how to make industry work, all that’s really required is to replace human muscle with machine muscle. So if the payoff was thought to be only 50 years away with 1980 technology, how long starting with 2009 technology? For example, modern engineering software will cut years from the design process, and a modern design might reproduce in six months instead of a year. The payoff could be only 25 years away.

A decade or two after the first self-replicating factory became operational we would be able to mass-produce any machines we want for the small cost of designing them. The potentials are endless, but two possibilities stand out.

(1) We could design automated, family-sized greenhouses and have them delivered to everyone. They’d be self-repairing, electrically lighted, and designed as sub-basements to our homes. Fruits, vegetables, grains, poultry and fish would be delivered automatically on demand, and toilet sewage would be processed as fertilizer to close the cycle. In addition to having the freshest possible food, there’s an even better reason why we would want to do this. With food production moved underground, vast tracts of land currently used for agriculture would become available for other uses. Most could be landscaped and allowed to go wild, and the rest could be made available for spacious suburbs. Without agriculture using-up the best land, Earth would no longer seem crowded.

(2) No matter how comfortable Earth becomes, many people will want the special luxuries found in space colonies. Imagine a tin can 50 miles long and 20 miles in diameter, spinning on its axis to create pseudo-gravity. Its 3,000 square miles of inner surface would be sculpted into cities, parks, lakes and wilderness areas. With a population density of only 1,000 per square mile it would comfortably house three million people. Standing on the inside and looking up, the entire living surface would be spread across the sky (20 miles away), and at night the porch lights of a million homes would shine in the sky like stars. With panoramic skies, mild weather, zero-gravity play areas, and low-gravity housing for the elderly, space colonies would be popular among all age groups.

Imagine a giant frame in space where thousands of colonies can be joined together with a mass transit system. Take the bus from colony to colony. With endless variations of climate, vegetation, and design, travel could become the main activity of the future population.

With ample resources available, engineers would make space colonies safe from collisions and radiation, and without earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tornadoes, or hurricanes they’d be safer than Earth. Space colonies would roll off the assembly line faster than we could fill them.

Ganymede, one of the moons of Jupiter, is much more massive than our moon and is covered by more than one hundred miles of frozen water. In one scenario, mining Ganymede alone would provide enough space colonies for a human population of a thousand trillion wealthy people. That would delay the population crisis for another 1000 years.

Sources:

http://mother-of-all-robots.com/

The official 28 meg PDF:
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19830007077_1983007077.pdf

Wikisource presents the most intersting parts of the book as web pages.

Advanced Automation for Space Missions is available as a printed book
in 7 parts (chapters) from National Technology Information Service.
The NTIS order numbers are N83-15348 through N83-15354.

The World’s Energy Future [Still] Belongs in Space by Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill

April 14, 2007

Solar Power Satellites are a solution to both global energy needs and to the greenhouse gas problem. The primary obstacle is the enormous lift costs. A cheaper source of construction materials than Earth must be found.

Editor’s note: Published more than 15 years ago, this essay is even more true and urgent today, and guides the philosophy and actions of Space Studies Institute. This very slightly UPdated version now includes selected illustrations from SSI’s free-to-copy sample slides, the Solar Power Satellite art set.

Trilogy January/February 1992

One of the great phenomena of our times is the environmental movement. Like any popular, large-scale movement, it has its irresponsible fringes, but it is impressive not only for its power, but for the number of its thoughtful, reasoning supporters. And none too soon, because within the past half-century the growing world population’s drive to industrialize has reached the point where human activity is clearly damaging the environment, in some cases irreversibly. Such damage is not unique to our own times; the deforestation of ancient Greece and much of Europe and Britain in the past few hundred years are examples. Now the damage has become general and worldwide.

The first, and intellectually the simplest response to that damage was to cry “Stop!” The earliest, and still a popular theme was, “If it’s new technology or an expansion of old, stop it.” We have, at least for now, effectively stopped the development of nuclear power in the United States. That happened because environmentalists feared reactor accidents and the certainty of nuclear wastes, and because of the mental association of “nuclear” with weapons. Though educated as a nuclear physicist, I happen to agree with that rejection, for specific reasons which seem rational to me.

Successes like that, if such we call them, are isolated. France, a nation as advanced as our own and with its own strong environmental movement continues to rely overwhelmingly on nuclear power. In the past 70 years, the drive to industrialize was so strong in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union that environmental concerns were totally buried.

Those examples point to worldwide forces that are, and probably always will remain, stronger by far than the forces allied for preservation of the Earth. Those forces are individuals aspirations for a better standard of living. In developing nations the paramount drive is feeding one’s own family and improving, even a little, the conditions of life. The destruction of the Brazilian rain forest, over-grazing in Africa, and pollution in the majority of Third World cities all attest to what forces win out in places where the standard of living is still far below that achieved in Europe, Japan, and the United States.

How can we solve the problem? Even to suggest there may be solutions is a “Western” viewpoint, very different from the fatalism much of humankind still lives by. But it is the material results of that Western viewpoint which most of humankind is striving to achieve.

I find myself trying hard, as a human being first and a scientist second, to find solutions. For years I have been exploring practical ways to preserve or even improve the environment while at the same time making available to the people of the developing nations the material resources they so desperately want.

The Link Between Energy and Industrialization

The central problem of industrial growth is energy. Building more energy efficient systems, especially transportation systems, is a way we can reduce energy needs. Much of my current efforts focus on the design of a practical transport system which can be faster than the Concorde, is virtually free of noise and environmental impact, and uses less than five times the energy as an efficient car, train, or airplane: vehicles traveling at or near surface level in a vacuum, supported and driven by magnetic forces, and guided by computers.

Despite such examples, reducing energy use overall is not an option, because producing most foods, goods, and services depends on energy. The least-developed industrial nations use only a hundredth as much energy as the most developed – but they suffer a living standard a hundred times lower in consequence. We could not reduce energy use without condemning the majority of the world’s population to unending poverty.

Maintaining the present rate of energy growth in developing nations will require generating more than five times today’s energy production 50 years from now [UPdate: 35 and counting]. It is so difficult and challenging to do that in an environmentally benign way that we must begin by throwing out most of the ideas we have heard so far.

We are concerned enough with the rise of carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect that our desire, as environmentalists, is to phase out the use of fossil fuels. That can be done, even for road transportation, if electricity can be made cheaply enough. Fuels like methane, propane, and butane can be synthesized using recycled carbon dioxide to put energy into portable form.

But how do we generate energy cheaply, reliably, without significant environmental impact, and without danger? Nuclear power is not very cheap, and would require operating 63,000 nuclear reactors worldwide by the middle of the next century. Reactors concentrate energy to an extreme degree, which is why there have been fatal reactor accidents in the real world of fallible, error-prone people.

Solar power received at ground level cannot be converted to energy in the amounts needed without paving much of the world with solar cells. That would further raise the Earth’s temperature by increasing the heat the ground absorbs. Obtaining power from the temperature difference between surface and deep ocean waters in the tropical oceans would change the global climate profoundly by altering the heat balance at the ocean’s surface. Fusion power appears still far from realization, and would not be free of radioactivity.

When conventional ideas are exhausted and no solution has been found, it is often wise to examine whether we have, unknowingly, bound our own thinking by convention. In this case we have, because all of the usual answers concerning generating energy are bound by our unspoken limitation to the surface of the Earth. I like to illustrate that tradition-bound thinking by posing the six-match puzzle. Put six matches on a table, do not break any, and use them to make four equal triangles. People who attempt the puzzle usually push the matches about the table for awhile and then give up. The solution is simple: make an equal-sided triangle of three matches, and hold a new match at each point of the triangle with the other ends of those last three matches meeting above the table. You have made a perfect tetrahedron – and you have escaped two-dimensional thinking to find a solution in three.

Letting The Sun Shine In

By close analogy, the probable best solution to our energy problem is to use the third dimension. There is, already, an utterly reliable, maintenance-free, nuclear reactor that consumes its own wastes – the sun. Everywhere except where the Earth’s shadow interrupts it, sunlight is intense and reliable 24 hours a day; everywhere, except where we have tried to use it so far.

There is a way to use the clean solar energy that now streams by the Earth to lose itself in the depths of space. It does not require new science, nor high temperatures, nor high energy density. It is simply to locate, in high orbit, large arrays of solar panels. Those panels convert solar energy to electricity, and then to low-density radio waves. The waves are sent to fenced-off areas on Earth where they are converted back to electricity at an efficiency rate of more than 90 percent.

To make solar power satellites (SPS) practical and economical, we do not need any new science; we only need to apply what we are already doing in the more advanced industries: robotic production, computer control, and the replication by robotic machines of some of their heavier, simpler components. We do need one more thing: materials. It is neither practical. nor economical, nor environmentally acceptable to lift from the Earth by rockets the thousands of tons of materials needed to build an SPS that would supply Earth electricity equal to the output of ten nuclear power plants.

Let the Moon Pitch In

Fortunately, we do not have to. We were given something unique in our solar system: an enormous moon, orbiting tantalizingly nearby, and containing on its surface just the materials we need. Lunar soils contain 20 percent silicon for solar cells, and about 20 percent metals. Much of the rest, surprisingly enough, is oxygen. The moon has two other great advantages as a source of materials: its gravitational pull is only one-sixth of the Earth’s, and because of its small diameter, the moon’s gravitational grip is less than a twentieth of the Earth’s.

The moon’s second advantage is it has no atmosphere. The combination of the moon’s weak gravitational grip and its vacuum environment makes it practical to locate electric mass accelerators on its surface which would be capable of lofting a steady stream of small payloads to a precise collection point high in space.

Such machines, called “mass-drivers,” were tested nearly a decade ago under the sponsorship of our small, quiet, nonprofit foundation, the Space Studies Institute (SSI). Mass-drivers were shown to obey their computer design programs within one percent – no new science there – just straightforward engineering. Since then SSI has sponsored laboratory research on making useful products from ores similar to lunar soils.

Can SPS Technology Deliver?

As people concerned about our environment and about the world we leave to our children we should question proposed solutions to major physical problems. As fossil fuels, nuclear energy, ground-based solar, and other conventional sources of energy all fail to make sense in the world.

First of all, there is plenty of energy in space. Even in a narrow band 25,000 miles above the equator, where a satellite can maintain a fixed orbit, plenty of solar energy streams by constantly to supply far more than enough energy for the Earth of 2050.

What of the conversion on Earth? It was demonstrated years ago. The antennas convert the radio waves with an efficiency so high that less than 100 watts of waste heat goes into the environment for every 1,000 watts that goes into power lines. For coal or nuclear the numbers are: 1,500 watts waste, 2,500 watts total; for ground-based solar they are several thousand watts waste plus another thousand to make up the total – different from an Earth without solar cells – because solar cells absorb more heat than the ground they cover.

Transmission is the question that deserves continuing research: How to send the low-density radio waves from an SPS to antennas on the Earth. I have satisfied myself that transmission does not involve significant risks. But I invite you to do your own research. One of the best sources on the subject is The Microwave Debate by N.H. Steneck (MIT Press).

The points that seem to me most important about radio transmission of energy are that people would not be in the beams; that for fundamental physical reasons the beams could not be intentionally or accidentally redirected; that their intensity would be comparable to sunlight; that unlike the massive shielding around a nuclear reactor, the only shielding necessary would be a layer of household aluminum foil; and that, unlike the present irreversible dumping of 5,000 megatons per year of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, or the generation of long-lived nuclear wastes, the SPS system would leave no chemicals or radioactives behind if our descendants decided to turn it off.

SPS Stuck in Bureaucratic Morass

You and I know that satellite power aided by the use of construction materials from the lunar surface is an idea that is still almost unheard of, much less the subject of national debate, as it should be. Indeed, those most seriously studying SPS are Japan and Europe. Why does this conspiracy of silence exist? The reasons are partly unfamiliarity: three-dimensional thinking is often unwelcome in a two-dimensional world. Oddly enough, it is often more unwelcome to people who think of themselves as experts than to people who have a general, rather than a specialized education.

Institutional barriers and the normal behavior patterns of bureaucracies explain the rest of the “why”. Since shortly after World War II the generation of scientists who contributed so greatly to winning that war have championed nuclear power. Though that generation is well into retirement now, it remains a powerful force in advising the government. It is joined by the heavy industries which see (or used to see) nuclear power as a market opportunity.

Fusion power research has gone on in large part because governmental science agencies like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation are extremely responsive to the scientific establishment. That establishment is led by such organizations as the National Academy of Sciences. The academy is made up of intelligent and highly qualified scientists, but as a body it is very conservative. Indeed, one of my colleagues high in its councils once described it as an “Old Men’s Club.” Fusion power research has been supported for some 40 years because, literally, generations of scientists have worked on it as graduate students, then gone on to positions of authority, and finally risen to positions where their recommendations arc heard with respect by government agencies.

In the bureaucratic format, satellite power has no natural home and no built-in constituency. NASA, now a timid, fearful NASA made up of aging pre-retirees rather than the young tigers who made Apollo work in just eight years, would be frightened out of its skin by a tough, make-it-work assignment with a tight budget and a tighter time scale. And NASA’s charter doesn’t cover energy. The DOE? Its charter doesn’t include space. The NSF? Satellite power isn’t science, it’s engineering.

That’s why research support toward satellite power has been left largely to the Space Studies Institute, a small foundation supported by thousands of private citizens -much as the organizations of the environmental movement are supported. Environmentally concerned citizens and groups, and SSI, should be talking. Their concerns are the same and their goals are the same. Since the governmental-scientific establishment in the United States is making no useful move toward a serious review of satellite power as a practical alternative, it may well be that concerned citizens are the only force that can bring about the necessary action. We as citizens have often succeeded in “Stop!” actions. Let us review, carefully and with open minds, whether SPS is something that we may want to “Start!”

Source: http://spacestudiesinstitute.wordpress.com/

The Amazon Herb Company: An Independent Review

A NaturalNews Special Report by Mike Adams

I’ve been watching the Amazon Herb Company for three years, paying attention to the quality of their products, people and leadership. This is a company that harvests a wide assortment of rainforest herbs from indigenous tribes in the Amazon, then makes them available in various high-potency formulas to consumers in North America and around the world through a direct sales distribution model. In each of these three years, I’ve been increasingly impressed with this organization, and they’ve now reached a point in maturity and purpose where I think it’s vital that I share the full story on the Amazon Herb Company with as many people as possible.

This special report offers a detailed, third-party review of the Amazon Herb Company from a truly independent perspective (meaning that I’m not an employee or associate of the company, and I have absolutely no financial ties with them, either. I don’t even get paid to speak at their events). Here, you’ll learn why you may want to consider being a customer or associate of the Amazon Herb Company, and how that gives you the opportunity to take part in an ever-growing campaign of global transformation that’s creating health, wealth and natural abundance all at the same time.

Sound too good to be true? That’s what I thought at first, too. But then I took the time to meet the people, research the rainforest herbs and experience their healing effects myself. Now I’m not only convinced this is the company that’s going to pave the way to sustainable business practices in the coming years, I’m also convinced it represents the very best business opportunity available in the natural health industry today for anyone interested in an independent, at-home business where you control your own financial destiny. That’s no casual claim, either. Keep reading to see why I’ve become such an outspoken advocate of the Amazon Herb Company, even while refusing to become a associate myself (due to journalism ethics, because if I got involved with the company, I could no longer offer a truly independent opinion like what you’re reading here).

How a few thousand people can be a significant force for positive global transformation
This last weekend, I had the honor of speaking at the annual summit for the Amazon Herb Company in Scottsdale, Arizona. In front of a crowd of 400 (or so) associates, I shared ideas about the future of life on Earth, the oppression of natural medicine by the Food and Drug Administration, the scientifically-validated truth about herbs from the rainforest, and why I think the Amazon Herb Company is now playing such a key role in transforming this world into a more peaceful, healthful and abundant place. I’ll describe why I think that’s true in the paragraphs below.

But the most impressive thing about the Amazon Herb Company is not actually its product line (which now delivers the most potent rainforest herbal formulas available outside of living smack in the middle of the Amazon). It’s not even the remarkable leadership of the company’s founder, Amazon John Easterling — who radiates characteristics that we would all love to see in corporate America, but rarely do: Humility, generosity, leadership and compassion for people, plants and the Earth. What’s most impressive about the Amazon Herb Company as a whole is the quality of the people it attracts.
The People
At any given moment at the annual Amazon Herb summit, you’ll find a huge room full of some of the most capable, well-informed and positive vibration people you’ll ever meet. If you met them all, one by one, you’d find yourself face to face with advanced herbalists, midwives, network chiropractors, yoga instructors, energy healers, doctors, veterinarians, raw foods enthusiasts, sound healers, spiritual masters, performance artists, life coaches and just about every area you can think of that’s focused on improving quality of life. This diversity of healing wisdom is nothing short of astounding, and simply walking among this group is much like tip-toeing through a towering forest of spiritual giants who bring together enough wisdom and experience in healing to put the whole outdated system of conventional medicine out of business.

Being around these people is a treat all by itself, and I found it to be quite healing without making any effort whatsoever to actually do any healing work. It’s like tuning forks: One fork automatically resonates with the vibration of the humming fork next to it. At Amazon Herb events, you just automatically soak up the optimism and abundance of the Amazon Herb people, and these vibrations bubble up inside you to the point where you start effortlessly expressing these positive vibes right along with everyone else!

This experience of being around Amazon Herb people stands in great contrast to what you get with most other people. I’ll admit something publicly to you right here. Most of the time, interacting with the general public is a frustrating endeavor. Probably due to my own pristine dietary habits, avoidance of toxic chemicals and heightened sensory acquity, I simply find the general public increasingly difficult to be near. They’re also not interested in hearing about how to improve their health, as I’ve learned on a couple of occasions when I was foolish enough to open my mouth in line at the grocery store. Mark my words: People who buy a 12 pack of diet cola aren’t interested in hearing about aspartame. (Don’t try this at home…)

Amazon Herb people are strikingly different from the general public. With them, I feel an instant resonance. These people are operating at a much higher vibrational level than everyday people. They’re spiritually aware, highly intelligent, warm-hearted and simultaneously capable of getting things done on a grassroots budget. And my point in mentioning all this is that I suspect you might enjoy being around Amazon Herb people, too! Even if you never buy a single product or sign up as an associate, merely hanging out with Amazon Herb folks is a healing experience all by itself.

All this doesn’t mean every single Amazon Herb person is some kind of saint. Like everybody else on a healing journey, these folks have their own challenges, struggles and setbacks. They even have a few competitive squabbles from time to time. But the difference here is that Amazon Herb people find creative ways to move through such struggles (often with the help of their sponsors or co-associates) and emerge on the other side much wiser for it.

So the people are, in my opinion, the greatest asset of the Amazon Herb Company. They give the company a soul and further its purpose. These are the kind of folks who remind you there’s actually hope for the future of humankind.

I’m not kidding about that. My frustratingly pessimistic views about the future of life on Earth are given pause by the realization that Amazon Herb people really do exist, and they’re collectively becoming one of the most powerful forces for positive change in the business community today. Their impact is truly that significant. If I wasn’t writing about the company, I would have joined up long ago.

Next page: What’s so amazing about the Amazon Herb product line (and why rainforest medicine will one day make conventional medicine obsolete!)

The Products
Of course, having great purpose and ethics is only part of the picture here. To run a successful herbal products company, you’ve got to have a great product line. “Great” isn’t even enough: It has to be spectacular to get noticed in the highly competitive health products industry today.

The Amazon Herb product line is, indeed, nothing less than truly spectacular. Their new Liquizon technology allows them to deliver encapsulated rainforest liquid concentrates that put everything else in the market to shame. I know that because every year I visit the Expo West trade show in California — which features more than 2500 companies in the nutritional supplements and personal care products industries — and I scour the trade show floor for three days to find the latest and greatest nutritional supplements. In three years of examining hundreds of companies, I’ve never seen anything with the potency and assimilation of the Amazon Herb Liquizon capsules, and they have now become a regular part of my own supplement routine. (I never board an airplane, for example, without chomping on 3 Arcozon capsules to protect myself from airborne viruses, and I take their Illumination formula on a regular basis.)

Compared to these Liquizon capsules, most other rainforest herbal products available in the marketplace are a joke. A lot of manufacturers only blend tiny amounts of the herbs into tablets, and they use fillers, binders and excipients to make them appear substantive. But the concentrations of the herbs are too low to really be effective (and a lot of companies source really poor quality herbal ingredients to begin with). The Amazon Herb Company, in comparison, sources wild-harvested herbs from nutrient-rich rainforest regions in Peru, extracts the full array of synergistic nutrients, then condenses them using a unique technology that keeps the herbs at a relatively low temperature and renders a final liquid product that’s nine times more potent than bulk herb powders.

Taking just one Liquizon capsule is like swallowing nine capsules from most other herbal companies, and even then, the biological assimilation speed of the Liquizon capsules is far more efficient because it’s an actual liquid, meaning your body doesn’t have to extract the phytonutrients from bulk herbage (that’s already done for you!).

Plus, when you consider the full line of Amazon Herb products available, you realize the incredible potential for growth this company has. Their product line includes the Liquizon herbal capsules, dietary fiber shakes with rainforest herbs, an exceptional line of skin care products called Lluvia, a green living cleaning product for your home, products for pet health, rainforest chocolate (combined with herbs), rainforest herbal tea and much more! Put it all together and you have an abundant product line made with pristine ingredients. These are all products I would gladly recommend to others, because they contain no junk and no chemicals. Just pure ingredients and outstanding quality throughout.

Want to try some free samples? Click here to see the list of recommended associates. Pick up the phone, call them and request information and samples. You’ll be delighted to experience these herbs for yourself!

The Amazon Herb Company gets it right from the source of the herbs all the way to the customer. They’ve donated hundreds of thousands of dollars in time, legal assistance and cash to help the native tribes in Peru protect their lands from loggers and oil companies. They’ve earned the great friendship of indigenous tribes in numerous Amazon rainforest regions, and they harvest all their herbs in a sustainable, mindful way that protects nature and ensure a future harvest.

These are “conscious living” actions rarely seen with any supplement company, and they’re hallmark characteristics of the Amazon Herb Company; an organization that in my opinion is positioned to be a major force in the future health care revolution that will one day sweep America (and other nations). I believe we could literally replace 90 percent of conventional medicine with rainforest herbs, and we’d actually prevent most disease rather than waiting for people to get sick enough that they demand pharmaceuticals.

…. rainforest herbs can be used to help prevent and even reverse serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression and much more…
Reversing Disease
I recently visited South America and did my own research on the local use of various medicinal herbs. In doing so, I’ve learned exciting details about the ability of these herbs to prevent, treat and even reverse serious diseases like cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, depression and many others. Rainforest botanicals are more healing than any pharmaceutical, and they work with a synergistic complement of natural medicines that are synthesized in the plant according to the wisdom of Mother Nature. Una de Gato, for example (Cat’s Claw) is a powerful anti-cancer herb that halts the growth of cancer tumors. It’s also very effective at reducing joint inflammation and C-Reactive Proteins (CRP) in the body.

Bitter Melon is outstanding at regulating blood sugar. Boldo is fantastic at assisting with digestion, and Sangre de Drago is such a healing substance for the digestive tract that it practically eliminates over a dozen digestive issues ranging from colon polyps to Crohn’s disease. Chance Piedra dissolves away kidney stones and Iporuru fights cancer, relieves inflammation and helps your body build healthy connective tissue. I could go on, but you get the idea: Amazon herbs make most pharmaceuticals obsolete.

The only reason people are still taking drugs for high cholesterol, cancer, heart disease, blood pressure, depression and diabetes is because they don’t yet know about these rainforest herbs. And while well over 100,000 Americans are being killed each year by properly prescribed pharmaceuticals, rainforest herbs are remarkably safe and operate with virtually no negative side effects whatsoever (although they have lots of positive side effects!).

In my professional opinion, virtually every single person taking drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, joint pain, depression and liver disorders could throw away their dangerous prescription medications and switch to rainforest botanicals instead. (Only under the direction of a qualified naturopathic health practitioner, of course.) These rainforest medicines are far more effective at not only controlling symptoms, but also solving the underlying health problem from the inside out. They don’t just mask symptoms, they nourish the body biochemically and energetically, accelerating the body’s innate healing potential and ultimately eliminating the imbalances that caused the “disease” to appear in the first place.

This is truly nature’s medicine, and it’s automatically compatible with the human body. The very future of medicine, I believe, will inevitably have to focus on using safe, affordable and effective rainforest medicines to prevent disease. Because today’s system of pharmacological medicine is leading to widespread disease and mass bankruptcy — of individuals, companies, cities, states and entire nations. The U.S. government is right now utterly bankrupt, and in order for it to meet future Medicare obligations using pharmacological medicine, the federal income tax rate would need to be raised to 80 percent! Imagine paying $8 to the government for every $10 you earn, and then seeing all that money flushed down the toilet buying overpriced prescription drugs for a massive diseased public. That’s where health care is headed if we don’t make changes, and the only way out is to abandon the failed system of drugs-and-surgery medicine and turn to medicines from nature.

That’s where the rainforest herbs come in. Wouldn’t it be nice to be positioned as an associate for this company as this transition towards natural health products continues to accelerate? When today’s corrupt health care system is finally abandoned, overthrown or outlawed, there’s going to be a mass stampede towards natural treatments for disease, and everyone participating in the healing botanicals industry is going to do extremely well: Naturopaths, herbalists, Chinese medicine doctors, herbal supplement manufacturers and Amazon Herb associates, too.

Click here to request some free samples of Amazon Herb rainforest products. You’ll be delighted to try these yourself!

There’s no question in my mind that getting involved in the natural healing industry is a smart career move for anyone wanting to be part of the global transformation that’s right now accelerating. The future looks bright for those involved in natural healing and disease prevention.

Next, I’ll review the details of the Amazon Herb Company business opportunity, and explain why so many people are finding working with this company not only personally rewarding, but also financially rewarding!
The Business
If you want to get involved, I’ve put in some effort to publish a list of recommended Amazon Herb associates you can call right now to get some answers. They can get you information, sample products, and even proven recipes for building a successful Amazon Herb distributorship. Click here to see the list of recommended associates, and remember: I have no financial ties, so I don’t benefit from this recommendation in any way. I believe that many readers, however, could experience tremendous benefits from being involved in this company. It’s a chance to be part of something truly revolutionary in the world of global healing through medicine, environmental protection and strong business ethics. And it’s only going to expand even more rapidly as the rest of the world wakes up to the dangers of conventional medicine and the promise of rainforest medicine.

At least a hundred NaturalNews.com readers have already become Amazon Herb associates, and I was honored to meet many of them at this recent event. So just remember: If you’re a NaturalNews reader and you’re investigating the possibility of becoming an Amazon Herb associate, you’re among friends. Many people have already chosen that path, and they’re right now growing their businesses and earning incomes by sharing healing herbs with others.

Why become an Amazon Herb associate?
There are a number of reasons to go this route:

• Being an Amazon Herb associate takes you away from that 9-to-5 grind of a job that you know you want to quit anyway. No more being under-appreciated by your boss, treated like dirt at the office or working for some company you don’t believe in anyway. Becoming an Amazon Herb associate lets you be your own boss and experience your own rewards. Sure, there’s real work required, but it’s far more rewarding than working for someone else.

• With the whole world now jeopardized by chemical pollutants, epidemic diseases and environmental destruction, don’t you think it’s important to focus your career on something that’s working to heal the planet (and all the people in it)? Working with the Amazon Herb company is something that’s good for your soul and your karma. You’ll be part of an organization of like-minded healers who also believe in protecting the planet, preserving the rainforest, healing with nature, experience personal growth and other similar goals. You’ll sleep well at night, knowing that 100 percent of your efforts are going towards something that’s making a positive difference in the world.

• Becoming an associate puts you on a fast track towards life success training. Simply learning from your upline distributors gives you the equivalent of a college degree in real world success skills covering everything from interpersonal skills to goal setting and financial management. Success in life is often accomplished by modeling other successful people, and in the Amazon Herb Company, you’ll find an abundance of successful people who will be thrilled to teach you what works and show you the ropes. It’s almost like being mentored into an accelerated success course. Follow their instructions and you’ll undoubtedly succeed.

• Don’t you think you have an important role to play in global transformation? You are a sacred being, and you have a purpose for being here. If you find your current day-to-day activities unfulfilling or boring, perhaps it’s time you became part of something that can allow you to express your greatest personal growth potential. With the Amazon Herb Company, there are absolutely no upper limits to your success. You aren’t limited by your college degree (or lack thereof), gender or skin color. No one can stop you from excelling beyond what most people thought was possible. Some Amazon Herb associates are earning well beyond six figure incomes, and thousands of them are earning a regular living that replaces the need for a day job.

Of course, I should mention that doing anything worthwhile takes work. Hard work. Just like I pour well over twelve hours a day into my work here at NaturalNews, if you want to make your Amazon Herb business a success, it’s going to require a commitment and some real effort. Nobody is going to hand you million dollar checks for sitting on your butt doing nothing. On the other hand, they will hand you a proven recipe for success, a massive support group, highly effective training, product literature and a full infrastructure for success (including your own website and email address). With these tools, you can achieve whatever level of success you wish to earn. If you just want a second income that doesn’t require a full-time effort, that’s very doable. If you want to switch careers and make this a lifetime revenue stream, you can do that, too. Every option is available to you as an Amazon Herb associate.

Or, you might only want to be an Amazon Herb customer like me. I just buy the herbs and take them on a regular basis, because I love the products. It is, in fact, great products that provide the foundation for a successful company.

Next, I’ll describe the potential for growth with the Amazon Herb Company and explain why getting involved right now puts you in a position to benefit from upcoming publicity that will amplify the success of everyone involved…

Revenue Streams
The Amazon Herb Company relies on a network marketing model for the distribution of its products. For many people, the term “network marketing” is a big turn off. And I agree with that. Many of the network marketing companies I’ve met are only pushing junk products backed by a corporate culture of greed. To put it bluntly, most network marketing companies just suck.

I assure you, however, that the Amazon Herb Company is a rare exception to this rule. It’s a company with outstanding ethics, unrivaled products, a generous compensation plan and a remarkable amount of self organization from the existing business leaders who have created processes for success that they hand down to each new associate.

You might notice that I do not recommend any other network marketing companies. That’s no accident. I’ve had many contact me, but have not encountered any company like the Amazon Herb Company. Some network marketing companies have tried to buy my influence (they don’t know me very well, do they?), and others have sent me samples of products that made me laugh out loud when I read their ingredients. In the world of network marketing of health products, there are very few organizations worthy of my support, and right now, the Amazon Herb Company is at the top of my list.

I’ve heard from a few readers who were reluctant to get involved because they thought too many people were already representing Amazon Herb products. Where is the room for growth? Let me answer that: The room for growth is far beyond what most people have imagined. Right now, not even 1 out of 1000 people in America is using Amazon Herb products. That means the market has barely been tapped: 999 people out of 1000 have never even tried them.

Of course, these ratios are different among the healing community. It’s true that among yoga teachers, herbalists and natural healers, probably 1 in 100 people are using Amazon Herb products, but that still leaves 99 percent of the market wide open. This company has a lot of room to grow. In fact, the greatest growth is just now beginning because the company recently entered a maturity phase where they brought in an experienced management team that can help them scale up operations more efficiently. (Growing pains have really challenged the company in the past…)

So I think the Amazon Herb Company is the perfect size for jumping on board. It’s big enough to have most of the growth spurt wrinkled ironed out, yet small enough to allow huge potential for future growth. It’s the perfect time to get involved.

And here’s something else. I’m going to be really publicizing the Amazon Herb Company over the next year. I’ve lined up product reviews, new research on the herbs and exclusive interviews with Amazon John Easterling, the founder of the company. All this publicity is going to help spread the word about the company and attract even more people to get involved. If you become an associate now, you’ll benefit from the ongoing publicity because more and more people will join the organization, and the top business leaders have a system of placing new people under recently-joined associates to help them get started. This means the sooner you get started with the company, the more you’ll benefit from continued NaturalNews publicity about the company.

Of course, an Amazon Herb distributorship is not a guaranteed income. You have to earn your check, and earnings can vary tremendously based on how well you’re able to follow the proven success strategies. Many people have tremendous success by simply holding herbal product parties at their homes. They use the Lluvia skin care line (see below) to demonstrate the products, and everybody has an enjoyable time. It’s the easiest business you’ve probably ever done, and the capital requirements for starting are remarkably small. A hundred dollars or so gets you started. (Contact my recommended Amazon Herb associates to learn more details. Since I’m not actually an associate, I don’t remember the exact dollar amount required to get started, but I know it’s not expensive.

Next, let’s take a closer look at the amazing Lluvia skin care line — a collection of truly natural products that makes most skin care products obsolete! Click the NEXT button below to continue…
Lluvia Skin Care
Unless you’ve been living on a deserted island for the last couple of years, you’re probably well aware that virtually all name-brand skin care and cosmetic products contain cancer-causing chemicals. The use of petrochemicals, solvents and dangerous carcinogens is widespread in the skin care products industry, and consumers are increasingly learning just how dangerous these products can be for your health. (Your skin is your body’s largest organ, after all, and it absorbs all those cancer-causing chemicals!)

For example, a recent study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group showed that many cosmetic products — including more than half of all baby soaps — contained a carcinogenic chemical. Internal studies in the cosmetics industry show that many of their products are contaminated with a carcinogenic impurity called 1,4-dioxane, and the EWG’s independent study showed that 1,4-dioxane is fairly widespread among cosmetic products.

The Amazon Herb Company manufactures a line of phenomenal skin care products based on rainforest herbs. The entire line completely avoids the use of dangerous chemicals, instead relying on the rejuvenating properties of various rainforest herbs and superfruits (like camu camu) to heal and nourish the skin. This means instead of putting toxic chemicals on your skin, you’ll be putting healing, rejuvenating rainforest herbs on your skin. The difference in the long-term health of your skin is simply amazing! Your skin will love you for nourishing it instead of poisoning it, and your liver will thank you for avoiding the toxic chemical burden.

The Lluvia product line includes everything you would expect from a skin care line: Facial cleanser, exfoliator, moisturizer, deep nourishing oil and a camu camu serum that’s simply amazing.

The “Camu C Serum” product contains camu camu superfruit berries that are extremely high in natural, full-spectrum vitamin C (as well as many other phytonutrients). It’s a highly effective skin treatment that literally helps your skin heal from the inside out through what I call “topical nutrition.” It diminishes wrinkles, improves skin tone and even protects your skin from ultraviolet rays. This is my favorite product from the Lluvia line. Previously, I never used skin care products, but I’ve grown to love this Camu C Serum product, and I get compliments on the radiance of my skin on a regular basis. This is especially interesting given that I spend lots of time in the desert sun, and I never use sunscreen!

You can see the ingredients used in Lluvia products at the Amazon Herb website. They include things like mineral ash, marine algae, brazil nut oil, passion flower seed oil and even the samambia herb, which is a truly miraculous skin repair herb that would be the miracle dermatology drug of the century if some drug company had invented it.

Are the Lluvia products expensive? Yes and no. They’re more expensive than the cheap, chemical-filled junk you might buy at retail stores, and yet at the same time they’re less expensive than the high-priced, heavily advertised brand-name cosmetic crap you’ll find at department stores. Regardless of the cost, there’s nothing that compares to the ingredients used in the Lluvia product line. These are pristine rainforest herbs, blended without using chemical solvents or toxic ingredients, ready to nourish your skin.

Even people who have sensitivities to typical skin care products can safely use these Lluvia products. I knew one girl who would normally experience severe rashes after using any brand-name cosmetic products, but after trying to Lluvia line, she was astonished to find no negative reactions whatsoever. In fact, she told me the products felt nourishing to her skin in a way she had never experienced before!

There’s no question the Lluvia products are in a class all their own. There’s simply nothing available in retail that matches the quality botanicals (and lack of chemicals) used in this product line. If you care about your skin — and you’d like to avoid cancer-causing chemicals — the Lluvia line should be the very first thing you investigate.

Speaking of avoiding cancer-causing chemicals, keep reading to learn about the Amazon Herb Company’s green living product. It has now become my favorite cleaner for my home, kitchen and garage. Click the NEXT button below to continue…
Green Living
The Amazon Herb Company offers products for green living and pet health, too. Their Amazon Clean & Green product is my top recommended cleaning product for non-toxic living. Made from rainforest botanicals and completely free of toxic chemicals, this product allow you to replace all those toxic cleaning products and replace them with something that’s simultaneously safe for you and the environment. (Because you have to remember where this stuff ends up after it goes down the drain, right?)

I use Amazon Clean & Green to wash my fruits and vegetables before blending up a raw foods smoothie every morning. I also use it to wash my kitchen countertops. A few weeks ago, I also discovered another use: It makes a great car cleaner! Virtually all car cleaning products are highly toxic, containing multiple VOCs (Volatile Organic Chemicals), solvents and chemical fragrance additives. Stop buying that stuff! Instead, get Amazon Clean & Green. It replaces about fifty cleaning products for your home, car, garage, and even your lawn! (Yes, you can even mix it with water and spray it on your garden to serve as a mild insect repellant.)

By the way, Amazon Clean & Green is naturally antibacterial, without depending on dangerous ingredients such as the Triclosan found in typical antibacterial soaps. Personally, I would never buy mainstream “antibacterial” soap products. The Amazon Clean & Green product works its cleaning magic using natural substances, not toxic chemicals.

One more note: If you have babies around the house, please do not wash their clothing or bedding in toxic laundry detergents, and don’t use toxic chemical-based cleaners in your house at all. Switch to this Amazon Clean & Green product and you’ll avoid exposing your baby to all kinds of liver-damaging chemicals found in typical cleaning products.

Products for pet health
The Amazon Herb product line is very widely used in pet health care, and some of the results achieved with the herbal products are downright amazing. Dogs, cats, horses and other animals are being cured of cancer, Valley Fever, parasites, diabetes and even hip disorders through the use of these rainforest botanicals. Some Amazon Herb associates specialize in animal care (click here to see the list of recommended associates), so if you’re interested in using the herbal products for your own pets or for veterinary care, please contact these people and start asking some questions.

I’ve personally seen astounding results with the herbs, and not long ago, I participated in the rescue of a Rottweiler from a local animal shelter. The dog was loaded up on antibiotics, starving to death and suffering from an extreme respiratory infection. By using massive doses of Arcozon (which contains Una de Gato and other herbs) and the Amazon Herb blue-green algae product, we were able to accomplish a complete recovery for this dog in less than 10 days. This also involves loads of sardines and some really great pet food from a company called The Honest Kitchen.

If I had not seen this with my own eyes, I would not have believed it. This dog went from death row (he was schedule to be euthanized within hours) to vibrant health in less than two weeks. That’s the power of using these herbs on animals, and I strongly recommend these herbal products for all pet owners who want to avoid the dangerous conventional veterinary medicine being practiced today (which is increasingly pushing pharmaceutical for pets. Did you know the FDA has approved Prozac for dogs?).

Next: I list over a dozen top Amazon Herb associates and business leaders and tell you how you can get started with free samples and information. Click the NEXT button below to continue…

Getting Started
Hopefully I’ve shared some good reasons for investigating the Amazon Herb Company further. If you’re ready to experience these products for yourself — or you’re interested in potential becoming an Amazon Herb Company associate — just check the list below and contact those who seem like a good fit for your region, language or personal philosophy.

If you are already in contact with someone about the Amazon Herb Company, please talk to them directly.

The language skills found among these Amazon Herb associates spans Russian, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German and many more. If your native language isn’t English, don’t worry: You can still find an Amazon Herb associate who speaks your language!

Be sure to ask for some product samples. You’ve simply got to try these products to experience their high vibration energy and healing effects. If you get some Liquizon capsules, bite into them! You’ll taste the full spectrum of healing herbs.

Almost everyone listed here will be happy to send you samples. Just review the list and call or email the person you think would be the best fit for you!

(This is no longer listed by region. Essentially, each person listed here has an organization that is independent of local geography. Representatives here can work with you in Hawaii, California, the Southwest, Northwest, Midwest, East Coast, Canada and many other countries outside the United States. Read the descriptions here and see which person you connect with the most, then contact that person first. If they don’t respond to you in a timely manner (typically 1-2 business days), then move to your next choice!)

If you are an Amazon Herb Association (gold or above) and would like to be listed here, simply send me your information using our feedback form and we’ll get you listed, or call our offices at 520-232-9300.

Terry Pezzi
www.AmazonDreams.com
info@amazondreams.com
520-247-1700
1-866-693-8622

Blessed with a huge heart and a deep love for her fellow human beings. Terry is a miracle worker who can teach you not only about medicinal herbs, but probably even a little about yourself. She’s one of the most widely admired associates in the company, and she’s known for her abundant generosity and willingness to help others. She’s based in Tucson, Arizona. Terry is the person who first introduced me to the Amazon Herb Company, and if she can’t answer your question, she can always point you in the right direction to find answers.

Garren Fagaragan and Nancy Wongmo
520-290-6889
Garren@AmazonHerbsAlive.com
www.Amazonherbsalive.com

Involved in Amazon Herbs since 2001, this dynamic couple has a large organization primarily in Arizona, California, and Idaho. Well versed in Spa and Wellness Presentations, they are the 2007 winners of the “World Class Star Partier” awards. Their specialties are all natural anti-aging skin care, building cooperative teams, training in the eco-business program, and “high touch” customer care. Garren serves on the Amazon Herb Co. Advisory Council. They have recently returned from the company’s annual Rainforest Expedition to Peru, visiting the Indigenous Communities with whom the company partners.

Teresa McConnell
623-451-0416
http://Antiaging.amazonherb.net
teresa_mcconnell@yahoo.com

Teresa owns a health and cleansing clinic with her husband, a naturopath physician in the Phoenix, Arizona area. She offers a gentle disciplined approached to healing and business success. With high integrity and commitment, her Amazon business includes dedicated health educators and happy consumers. She believes in enhancing the lives of those she touches with whole foods nutrition. She focuses on leadership training and taking risks and will walk hand in hand with any new business associates that step up to say “Yes!”

Kay Aubrey-Chimene
520-455-0202
www.grandadventuresranch.com
kay@grandadventuresranch.com

Kay loves animals and hosts tele-seminars on Amazon Herbs and animals. She is a powerful resource as a bio-nutrition consultant and energetic resonance testing specialist. She and her husband own a guest ranch retreat center in Southern Arizona and dedicate their time to helping the world be a better place with Amazon Herbs. If you love animals, you’ll enjoy working with Kay and benefiting from your tremendous wisdom and experience in helping animals heal.

Joy von Skepsgardh
Toll free 1-800-239-5859
www.amazonherbshop.com
joy@amazonherbshop.com

With a background as a health practitioner, Joy also is a natural leader and trainer in business endeavors. She is a gateway to one of the largest organizations in Amazon Herb Company with French, German and Spanish speaking organizations. She has helped hundreds of associates get started and grow into success with the Amazon Herb residual income program by using her training guide and duplicable systems. She is a professional who returns calls and emails quickly and is ready to assist everyone. She can help find the right team for you in the USA, Canada and Europe. (Austin, Texas and Northern California)

Joyous O’Neill Darago
www.myamazonherbs.com
joyousnow@earthlink.net
831-760-0111
Toll free 1-866-GO-HERBS (464-3727)

Joyous comes from Quebec, Canada and speaks French as well as English. Currently living in New Jersey, Joyous’s group of success partners are in N.Y, Arizona, Canada, Hawaii and California. She is a mom who loves to help other moms earn income while assisting their family to feel better and live healthy lives. She is also a tantra instructor, herbalist and dancer who took Amazon Herbs throughout her pregnancy. Involved with Amazon Herbs since 2000, she has a profound knowledge base in all the products and business. Her organization includes native Japanese and French speakers.

Judi and Keith Heimpel
Toll free 877-83-HERBS (877-834-3727)
www.HolisticRainForest.com
jk@holisticrainforest.com

Dedicated, professional and fast in follow up, you will feel supported in all your health and wealth needs with this husband and wife team. Chicago, Midwest, Great Lakes, New England, New York, Colorado, and California are the main locations of their fast growing business. They are animal lovers with vast experience in helping pets (horses, cats, dogs and so on) by using Amazon Herbs. An extensive email newsletter and blog at www.WeSaveTheRainforest.com helps customers, activist, health enthusiast and business partners stay connected. Delightful and available, they make everyone feel like the most important person in the world.

Judy Taylor
Toll free 866-866-0045
www.amazonherbstore.com
judy@amazonherbstore.com

A nutritionist and health educator, Judy understands Amazon Herbs from A – Z and makes herself available to help customers and associates get healthy with the Amazon Herbs. Located in Southern Oregon, her team extends to Arizona, Nevada and Northern California as well as the entire USA. Her knowledge base includes diet, lifestyle and skin care suggestions to supplement a new Amazon Herb heath program. She has German and Spanish speaking business associates and a large team with Big Hearts for service. She’s generous with her time and free samples.

Wenty Hill
928-301-3360
http://treasure.amazonherb.net
yes@1withu.com

Wenty lives in Washington State. She is a professional business coach and humanitarian as well as a successful Amazon Herb associate who believes in having fun and doing well by doing good. She will walk you step by step to where you want to go. She is a great long distance coach as well. No matter where you live, you’ll feel like you are right next door.

Marci Steiner
888-753-2153
www.rainforestrainbows.com
marcicay@aol.com

Marci is an enthusiastic and heart-centered leader with high standards. She is a fun-loving intuitive with a strong business background. She has many powerful Amazon Herb stories to share with you. Marci is an animal communicator who uses the herbs in her practice. Her team of Associates are present and willing to support you in using the herbs across the US and Canada with larger communities in Maryland, Virgina, DC, Washington State, and Colorado. She has a growing Spanish speaking group and Russian speaking ambassadors and a sincere desire to serve. If you want to have fun and make money, call Marci. Looking to revitalize your health? Join her for fun and educational Herb and Spa Parties offered monthly in DC area. Free Muscle testing, Herbal Cocktails, Rainforest Treasure Tea and Healthy Chocolate.

Doctors Mariellen and Bruce Kristol
904-739-5808
www.amazonherbsforlife.com
dockristol@earthlink.net

A team of doctors from Florida, Mariellen is a doctor of Oriental Medicine and Bruce is a Clinical Psychologist. They own the Kristol Healing Center and have integrated Amazon Herbs into their practice since 2001. For exquisite health advice and a long term loyal business partnership, call the Kristols. Animals, emotional balance and Chinese theory add a unique flavor to their Amazon Herb business practices.

Australia

Alex Kertesz
www.BestNutrition.amazonherb.net
alex.kertesz@optusnet.com.au
Australia Local Daytime: 0395272282
Australia Local Mobile: 0419884638
International: 011- 61-3-95272282

I met Alex in person at the recent summit, and he’s a cheerful, enthusiastic and very resourceful man who can help you get started in Australia (which looks to be the next big growth area for the Amazon Herb Company) and New Zealand.

Europe

Jens Zimmerman
www.herbspirit.net
info@herbspirit.net
+49 (0) 451 / 70 74 94 70

Additional contacts:

Luke Krcil
Extremely intelligent, creative and compassionate. Knows the products top to bottom, and is a genius in working with people.
www.AmazonHerbLive.com
Luke@AmazonHerbLive.com
800-492-9537

Bonnie Butwin
A highly successful person dedicated to having fun and helping others succeed. Bonnie is very professional, well informed and experienced.
www.fun.amazonherb.net
butwin@earthlink.net
707-537-0242

Michael and Lucy Mazes
www.healthy.amazonherb.net
amazes@msn.com
310-394-3468

Kosa Ely
www.amazonprosperity.com
kosa@amazonprosperity.com
1-800-362-3975

Richard Cicchetti
www.natural.amazonherb.net
naturalrichard@mac.com
866-424-3727

Ron Bond
www.rbond.amazonherb.net
rfbond@houston.rr.com
281-363-2001

Other states and countries…

If you don’t see your state or country listed here, don’t worry. You can still contact any of the associates listed above and they can help you get pointed in the right direction. Many associates work with sponsors who are located in other states, and there are Amazon Herb business leaders in every state, including Hawaii, the Midwest, all along the East Coast, and many countries around the world.

The Amazon Herb Company: An Independent Review

The Water Cure: An interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj

A NaturalNews Special Report by Mike Adams

Physicians rarely promote the curative properties of H2O, but Dr. Batmanghelidj, M.D. has studied water’s effect on the human body and has found it to be one of the best pain relievers and preventative therapies in existence. I was one of the last people to interview the late Dr. Batmanghelidj, and I listened in awe as he shared his research and stories about “The Healing Power of Water.”

In a fascinating one-hour phone conversation, Dr. B. shares:

• Which common ailments and “diseases” are actually caused by dehydration

• Why many doctors use water-regulating antihistamines to alleviate pain

• How Dr. Batmanghelidj unintentionally discovered water’s healing properties

• Why most people are chronically dehydrated and suffer from symptoms of dehydration that are labeled “diseases”

• Which ingredients in soft drinks deplete the body’s water reserves

• Why thirst is not a reliable indicator of dehydration

• Why the body produces cholesterol and how water keeps it in balance

• Why Dr. Batmanghelidj believes the public is being mislead about AIDS

• How dehydration impairs mental functioning

• Why some organizations want to withhold alternative health information from the public

• How lack of water causes depression

• Why popular beverages are no substitute for water

• How dehydration causes the vascular system to constrict, leading to hypertension

• How to recognize signs that your body is starting to dehydrate

• Why restaurants push you to drink disease-promoting soft drinks

• Why and how water effectively treats pain and inflammation

Discovery of the water cure

Mike: Welcome everyone, this is Mike Adams with Truth Publishing, and today I’m very excited to be welcoming Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Welcome, Dr. Batmanghelidj.

Dr. B: Thank you very much for inviting me to be on the air with you and giving me the opportunity of sharing my thoughts on the future of medicine in this country.

Mike: I think there are many, many people who have read your books. People are intrigued by the idea that water can be a therapy, a healing substance for the human body. What is it about water? How did you first become aware of these healing properties of water?

Dr. B: Well, it’s very bizarre. As you know, I’m a regular doctor, an M.D. I had the honor and the privilege of being selected as one of the house doctors, and I had the extreme honor of being one of the last students of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. I mention his name so that you know I was immersed in medical school and research. And some years later, I had to give two glasses of water to a person who was doubled up in abdominal pain from his disease, because I had no other medication to give him at that moment. And he was in excruciating pain, and water performed miraculous relief for him. It gave him relief — within three minutes his pain diminished, and within eight minutes it disappeared completely, whereas he was doubled up eight minutes before and he couldn’t even walk, he completely recovered from that situation. And he started beaming from ear to ear, very happy, asked me what happens if the pain comes back? I said, “Well, drink more water.” Then I decided to instruct him to drink two glasses of water every three hours. Which he did, and that was the end of his ulcer pains for the rest of the duration that he was with me.

Mike: And from that episode then, what happened next?

Dr. B: That woke me up, because in medical school I’d never heard that water could cure pain, that kind of pain, in fact. And so I had the occasion to test water as a medication in subsequently over 3,000 similar cases. And water proved every time to be an effective medication. I came away from that experience with the understanding that these people were all thirsty, and that thirst in the body can manifest itself in the form of abdominal pain to the level that the person can even become semi-conscious, because that’s the experience I had. And water picks them up every time.

So when I came to America in 1982, I went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I was invited to continue my research, and did research in the pain-relieving properties of water. I asked myself, why does the pharmaceutical industry insist on using antihistamines for this kind of pain medication? So I started researching the role of histamine in the body, and the answer was there — histamine is a neurotransmitter in charge of water regulation and the drought management programs of the body. When it manifests pain, in fact, it is indicating dehydration.

So, the body does manifest dehydration in the form of pain. Now, depending on where dehydration is settled, you feel pain there. Very simple, and I presented this concept at the international conference as the guest lecturer of a conference on cancer, explaining that the human body manifests dehydration by producing pain, and pain is a sign of water shortage in the body, and water shortage is actually the background to most of the health problems in our society.

Because if you look at what the pharmaceutical industry is doing, they’re producing so many different antihistamines as medication. Antidepressant drugs are antihistamines, pain medication are antihistamines, other medications are directly and indirectly antihistamines. So, that is when my work was published, the scientific secretariat of the 3rd Interscience Board Conference of Inflammation invited me to make this presentation on histamine at their conference in 1989, in Monte Carlo. And I did that, and so it became a regular understanding that histamine is a water regulator in the body. But unfortunately, this information is not reaching the public through the medical community because it’s not a money-maker.

So that’s when I began to consider writing for the public, so that the public could become aware of the problem directly without the interference of a doctor, and that’s how I have generated all my medical information for the public. Of course, I have published extensively for the scientific community, but no one is picking up. In fact, the NIH, the Office of Alternative Medicine, had its first conference when the office was created, and I was asked to make my presentation, but when the proceedings of the conference came out, my presentation was censored after the proceedings. So there is a movement afoot within the NIH group of people to keep a closed lid on my information so that it doesn’t get out, because obviously they are more in favor of the drug industry, because it is now obvious that they are getting paid by them.

Mike: I think it is, first of all, that is an amazing account of what has been happening, and I think it is fair to say, too, that the pharmaceutical industry and organized medicine in general, really doesn’t want to promote anything that is free or near-free to the average patient. Sunlight is available at no charge, water is available at nearly no charge — would you agree that their thinking is if people can cure their diseases, and achieve a high state of health on their own with these free substances, then that diminishes their profits and their importance?

Dr. B: Absolutely. That’s why I’ve created an organization now called National Association for Honesty in Medicine. Because I think it’s totally dishonest, in fact, criminal, to treat a person who is just thirsty, and give them toxic medication so that he gets sick and dies earlier than normal.

Mike: Can you give out the web address to that organization, by the way?

Dr. B: My website is http://www.watercure.com — it gives you the option of going to one site or the other — either Water Cure.com, or you can go the National Association for Honesty in Medicine. Or you can go to the information side of my website, http://www.watercure.com, because I have posted all of my scientific articles on dehydration on the website, and lots of other free information that people can have.

AIDS and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Mike: I want to applaud what I call your scientific curiosity. I think this is the kind of curiosity that has been lost in so much of western medicine, where a true scientist observes nature and observes the interaction between humans and nature, and remains curious and open and to all possibilities, and then forms conclusions after rigorous testing, and I think so much of modern science has drawn erroneous conclusions without really remaining open-minded…

Dr B: Yes, one of the worst ones is AIDS. Because everyone assumes that AIDS is actually a viral disease, which is a fraudulent statement by those people who presented it, because the human body is the product of many, many years of having fought various viral diseases, and has survived. Smallpox, polio, measles, and all the other viruses that can kill very easily, and the body has an ability to mount a defense system against these hot viruses, viruses that actually very quickly can kill. But having survived those, how is it possible that the slow virus would kill us in the name of AIDS? I can’t understand it.

I have researched this topic extensively, and I have shown in fact that AIDS is a metabolic problem, when the body begins to cannibalize its own tissue because of certain missing elements in the raw materials that it receives through food or beverages, and the body of a person who gets AIDS, actually, is short of quite a number of building block amino acids. They’re short of tyrosine, they’re short of methionine, cysteine, they’re short of histidine, and they’ve got a whole lot of others in excess. So how can we expect a body that depends on the other amino acids to survive?

Mike: Once again we see AIDS is a huge industry for the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. B: Well, of course it is, and the whole entire existence of the pharmaceutical industry is based on presentation of false science, and advertising this false science and drumming it into the minds of gullible people who have no curiosity to find out why that is so.

Cholesterol

Dr. B: Another false science is the question of cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the human body. When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a reason to do that. It is certainly not to block the arteries of the heart, because we measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having blocked the veins of the body.

So, it is not the stickiness of the cholesterol that is the problem, which the drug industry is drumming it into the minds of people — cholesterol is sticky, reduce it otherwise you will have blockage of your arteries, which is all nonsense. Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has designed. When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic, and is being rushed through constricted arteries or capillaries, in dehydration, then abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system, naturally, in the capillaries of the heart first.

Now if cholesterol wasn’t there to cover up the tear and abrasions, blood would get under the membrane and peel it off and that person would be dead instantly. Cholesterol is actually an interim lifesaver, giving the body time to recover from its problems. We never understood this. We are knee-jerk doctors. We think that something’s up, bring it down, if something’s down, bring it up. We don’t ask questions why is it down or why is it up?

Mike: And the pharmaceutical companies know that treating cholesterol is a huge industry…

Dr. B: It’s a ten-billion dollar industry. Now there is a report that actually these statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs produce amnesia. In other words, the brain totally loses track of what it’s doing, and it is published by a doctor who is an eminent doctor. He was a flight surgeon, he is a researcher at NASA. And he knows what he’s talking about. He had the problem himself.

Mike: I just wanted to comment on the number of side effects that have been recorded as side effects from using statin drugs. Some people have extreme muscular pain, that amnesia you mentioned seems to be very common, and yet a study just came out, I saw it this morning, talking about how blueberries have phytonutrients that are shown to lower so-called fatty cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, more powerfully than statin drugs.

Dr. B: It’s interesting, because you see, the body manufactures cholesterol as an emergency situation, when it raises the level of its production. Its normal rate of production is of course is to create membranes for the cell membranes and brain cells and nerve insulation and of course the hormones of the body, vitamin D for the body. So these are the essential components that cholesterol makes in the body. We should never interfere with cholesterol without knowing why the body has starting raising its level.

No substitute for water

Mike: I have a question for you on water — a lot of people think that they are hydrating themselves when they consume soft drinks or milk or Gatorade or all these other liquid beverages…

Dr. B: Gatorade is possibly okay, but Gatorade has sugar in it, and it’s not particularly good for people who might even get hypoglycemic, or might induce insulin secretion, and that insulin secretion will produce more hunger and they overeat. But as a temporary sport drink, it’s okay when you’re in the middle of a golf game to drink a Gatorade. It immediately gives you a bit of the minerals that you probably will have lost sweating.

But nothing substitutes for water — not a thing. No drink — no coffee, no tea, no alcoholic beverages. Not even fruit juices. Each one of them has its own agenda. Your body is used to a fluid that has no agenda, because the body depends on the freedom of that fluid, water, because there are two kinds of water in the body. There is already occupied and engaged water, which is no good for new function. The body needs new water, or free water, to perform new functions. Now, when you give them sugar containing beverages, or caffeine containing beverages, both sugar and caffeine have their own chemical agenda in the body. They defeat the purpose of the need for water.

Mike: You’re also talking about soft drinks here…

Dr. B: I’m talking about soft drinks, I’m talking about sodas, I’m talking about caffeine containing coffee or tea. I’m also talking about alcohol, because alcohol actually stops the emergency water supply systems to the important cells, such as the brain cells. In the reverse osmosis process your body filters and injects water into the cells, and this is what I call reverse osmosis. And it has to raise the blood pressure for that in order to overcome the osmotic pull of water out of the cells, and reinject water into the cells. That’s why we develop high-blood pressure in dehydration. And this process of reverse osmosis is stopped by alcohol. It stops the filter system.

Chronic Disease Caused by Lack of Water

Mike: Let me start this next section by asking you about the correlation between water consumption and chronic disease. There are many diseases you mention in your books that are related to dehydration. I wonder if you can give our readers a brief of what the major diseases are and why they are aggravated or promoted by chronic dehydration.

Dr. B: Certainly, Mike. I have written a book called Water Cures and Drugs Kill. It’s a book that explains why dehydration is the cause of pain and disease, and how the pharmaceutical industry has camouflaged this information or covered it up and instead of letting people drink water, it advertises the use of their products, which actually do kill. Because recent figures have shown that prescription medications, when used according to the instruction of doctors, nonetheless kill over 106,000 people, and make 2 million people sicker than before taking the medication. And then there is another group who die from faulty prescriptions, incorrect prescriptions.

So between them, about 250,000 people die from drug-related problems, medication-related problems. This makes the drugs the use of drugs the number three killer processes in the country — protected and licensed killer process. After heart disease, which kills about seven or eight hundred thousand, cancer which kills about 500,000, drugs kill 250,000 people.

Mike: So it’s fair to say that pharmaceuticals, as packaged by modern medicine, are the third leading cause of death in this country.

Dr. B: Absolutely, and they are useless, because most of the medication they are using is to cover up symptoms and signs and complications of dehydration in the human body. The human body manifests dehydration by a series of symptoms and signs, perceptive symptoms of dehydration — in other words, brain senses dehydration, or tiredness when you haven’t done a good day’s work, or first thing in the morning when you want to get up out of bed and you’re tired, you can’t get up — that is a sign of dehydration. Then anger, quick reaction, depression, these are all signs of dehydration, when the brain has very little energy from hydroelectricity to cope with the information or take action. These are some of the perceptive signs of dehydration. Then the body has its drought management program, which are allergies, hypertension, diabetes, and also immune diseases.

The link between dehydration and asthma

Mike: I’d like you to elaborate a little more on asthma, and the idea that the body is managing its water supply deliberately in a way that produces symptoms that are called asthma.

Dr. B: Yes, well you see, drought management means that you have to clog the holes where water is lost from the body. Water is the most precious commodity in the interior of your body, and when not enough is coming in and more is being lost, this is a no-no situation for your body. The intelligence behind the design of the body has it such that a drought management program will kick in, and then allergies are a sign of dehydration because the system that regulates water balance of the body suppresses the immune system, because it’s an energy-consuming situation. Then you get asthma.

You see, we lose about a quart of water through breathing every day. It is actually the surface tension in the alveoli of the lungs that produces contraction of these tiny membranes, and air is pushed out. And in the process, that water will leave with the air that is leaving. So you lose about a quart of water in breathing. We need to replenish that. When we don’t replenish it, the body tightens up the bronchials and plugs up the holes and we call this reduced air flow in the lungs because of dehydration, we’ve labeled it as asthma.

Mike: Right. I’ve always been amazed that the willingness of modern medicine or western medicine to come up with these complicated sounding labels or names for diseases that should really have simpler names.

Dr. B: Jargon peddling is the way of commercial medicine. Sick-care system survives and thrives on pushing these jargons into the minds of the people, because people don’t understand what these jargons, they hear them and they don’t associate with anything in the body, but associate them with those jargons of fear that are drummed in the minds of people.

Now, children, there are 17 million children in America, probably more because the numbers rise every year, who have asthma, and the reason is, at the same time, children have been consuming more and more sodas. Three year olds to five year olds have been consuming three times as much soda in the last ten years than in the ten years before that. So these people are getting dehydrated, they are consuming more sodas, which doesn’t function in the same way as water, and that is why they get asthma. Now, give these children water, and their asthma will disappear very quickly, in a matter of a few hours, completely the breathing becomes normal. The need for these inhalers will disappear.

And when I contacted the NIH and explained all of this, the gentleman who was in charge of this said I was so ignorant on what was going on, and yet he wanted to protect his freedom, and so he ignored the information even though I had gone to Clinton, President Clinton to ask him to intervene, and give breath back to these children. But the NIH was adamant to use medication. He wrote me, actually, and said we are satisfied with the way asthma is being treated. So, this is the situation. Now 17 million children is America can recover in a matter of a few days if everyone in the country started talking to asthmatic people and saying water is what you should take. Can you imagine a solution so simple?

Mike: Yes. Yes I can, and there are many such solutions available to treat a great number of chronic diseases, just like you’ve been describing here. Of course, the pharmaceutical industry I think would be horrified to have that information become widespread.

Dr. B: Yeah, well, because what I’m saying is totally anti-business, and we are not talking about a few hundred thousand dollars, we are talking about a few billion dollars a year.

Treating hypertension with water

Mike: For the pharmaceutical industry, the existence of disease is a business question, because let’s face it, the pharmaceutical industry is a for-profit industry. Profits are always first, and at least it’s my belief, and it seems that you share it, that any therapy that competes with those profits is minimized, marginalized or outright attacked.

Dr. B: Yes, recently there was an ad on the television. It was very interesting — I didn’t realize it at the beginning, but I now realize that the ad was speaking to me. In other words, it was an ad against my statements. Because I’ve said that the heartburn is a sign of dehydration in the human body and you should drink water. And this guy comes and sits at the counter and asks, “Give me a glass of water, my heartburn is killing me.” Or something like that. And the lady behind the counter says, “Water doesn’t cure heartburn — this medication does.” So see, this is how the pharmaceutical industry fights the information that I put out. But nonetheless, people who did discover that water could cure their heartburn are wiser than those who buy into that advertising stunt.

Mike: It seems like there are almost two different groups of people in the United States. There are those who are now dependent on multiple pharmaceuticals to treat everything, every symptom that they have, and who alter their body chemistry and their brain chemistry through drugs, and then there are those who are educating themselves about the true causes of health. They’re drinking water, they’re avoiding food additives, they’re engaging in exercise — it seems like there’s a chasm that’s widening between these two groups.

Dr. B: Absolutely. That’s why alternative medicine has picked up and you’re getting more people going to alternative medicine than conventional medicine. You see, I’ve sold at least over 600,000 copies of my book Your Body’s Many Cries for Water over the past 10 years. And so I’ve had over several thousand radio interviews in the past 10 years. Information is getting out into the hands of the public, so the pharmaceutical industry has to naturally increase its advertising to nullify this information that I have put out. That is why they have produced this ad — one of many, actually.

Anyway, we were talking about drought management programs in the body. Hypertension is another one of these problems. When there isn’t enough water in the body, or the body becomes dehydrated, 66% of the water loss is from the interior of the cells. 26% is from the environment around the cells, and only 8% is lost from the vascular system. But the vascular system is an elastic system — it tightens up and takes up the slack so you don’t see the problem that is going on inside the cells of your body by testing your blood that is being tested in so many conditions. If people drank water on a regular basis and took enough salt and minerals to expand the capillary beds, hypertension would disappear completely.

And there are 60 million Americans who don’t realize that actually hypertension is one of the manifestations of drought management programs of the body when the body begins to operate a reverse osmosis process, to deliver water into the interior of those cells which are 66% water deficient. Now the pharmaceutical industry and the medical doctors arrogantly and ignorantly are treating hypertension with diuretics.

Mike: Let’s get rid of the water!

Dr. B: They are getting rid of the water in the body, at a lot of, how shall I say, effort.

Mike: Isn’t this an example of the arrogance of modern medicine in believing that it knows more than nature, it knows more than the body?

Dr. B: We, as doctors, are really 007 agents of the pharmaceutical industry. We are totally blind and ignorant and the pharmaceutical industry has hijacked medicine. We learn a couple of years of physiology, and soon as we go on the clinical side we are asked to forget those and begin to learn pharmacology in order to treat symptoms rather than understand the primary cause of the health problem.

Mike: But you were trained in classic, conventional way…

Dr. B: I had to educate myself.

Thinking outside the box

Mike: What it is that drove you to explore beyond the limited thinking of conventional medicine?

Dr. B: I’m always a curious person. I’ve been a curious person ever since I was born as far as I know. One day we had a thief come into the house and was on the wall, and I was only a two and a half year old boy. I went to him and said, “What are you doing here? Can’t you see you’re scaring everyone? Why don’t you go?” I wasn’t scared, I was curious.

That is what I am, right throughout my life, and that is why when I discovered that water cures pain, then this was an entrance for me to get into it and find out what was the reason. And that was when I discovered that my education was no good. I didn’t learn medicine, I learned a little bit of anatomy and a little bit of histology, which stood me in good stead in order to understand the rest of the stuff.

Mike: You are, I’m sure the listeners would agree here, you are to be applauded for being able to venture outside of conventional medicine.

Dr. B: I’m only a healer because that’s my way of thinking. I don’t think about money, because money is, if you do a good deed, money will come as a by product of that good deed.

Mike: I agree with you wholeheartedly there.

Dr. B: You don’t have to try and take the last drop of blood out of a person who comes to you in order to get help from you. That is against my nature. That’s why I’ve put out my information for everyone to use on the internet, and it is only for further use or further education that I have produced my books and so on, and those books unfortunately, the cost of printing, distribution, forces the price on the information. If the pharmaceutical industry had the information that they were going to sell, for example the information in my book Your Body’s Many Cries For Water, they would ask for $10,000 a book, not $14.95.

Mike: And, if they could, they would patent water…

Dr. B: They would patent it.

Mike: And try to sell it to you at $100 a dose, right?

Dr. B: That’s right. So, basically, this is what’s going on in medicine in America. Joint pain, back pain, arthritis cause by chronic dehydration Dr. B.: The human body also has its emergency calls for water. These are localized emergency calls. We call these heartburn, rheumatoid joint pain, back pain, migraine headaches, colitis pain, fibromyalgiac pain, even angina pain — signs of dehydration in the body.

And the mechanism is very simple — when there isn’t enough water to be evenly distributed and certain parts of the body are working but not receiving enough water to deal with its toxic waste and metabolism, and the toxic waste builds up that area, the nerve endings in that area register the chemical environmental change with the brain. And the brain translates this information for the conscious mind in the form of pain.

Mike: So it’s just the interpretation?

Dr. B: It’s an interpretation, yes. So the conscious mind gets the information that, hey, this area we can’t use anymore, it has a shortage of water. Of course, the conscious mind should have known that, but bad education has robbed us of that information. We think this pain is a disease.

Mike: The predominant diagnosis of this, of course, I think in the minds of most people, and especially in most M.D.s would be that there is something physically or structurally compromised in that area.

Dr. B: Well, of course, the compromise is when the tissue is dehydrated, it’s changing structure. The plum-like cells become prune-like. Prune-like cells do not function in the same manners as a plum-like cell. So, that is how symptoms are produced. These symptoms mean, okay, let us get the ingredients that the body needs into the system. Now, when we say dehydration, water also brings a lot of other goodies to the cells. When we are dehydrated, these goodies are not delivered either. So, we need not only correct dehydration, but also to supply the minerals and vitamins and so on so that the body can repair itself.

Thirst perception not reliable

Mike: I’d like to you talk about how people can know when they need to drink water, because you talk about in the book how some of the signs of dehydration, the classic signs are not necessarily the only signs, and also how much should an average person be drinking?

Dr. B: First and foremost, don’t wait until you get thirsty, because that’s an error. Unfortunately, the National Academy of Sciences and some other people recently have been telling people to wait until they get thirsty before they drink, which is the main error that we inherited 100 years ago from a man called Walter Bradford Cannon. And that’s why, at the time, there was a Frenchman saying that dehydration or thirst is a general sensation and we should study it, and Walter Bradford Cannon said, no, thirst is only a matter of dry mouth.

When the mouth is dry we are thirsty, which is an arrogant statement, and unfortunately western medicine bought into that understanding, and that’s why we have a sick-care system, because from the age of 20 onwards, we gradually, imperceptibly become dehydrated without knowing it. We lose our perception of thirst. By the age of 70 we may be totally thirsty and obviously thirsty and yet not recognize the need to drink water, even when water is put next to us.

This was done as an experiment. A scientist asked a group of elderly people to withhold from drinking water for 24 hours, and similarly with young people. After 24 hours when water was made available, the elderly did not recognize that they were thirsty.

Mike: Even after 24 hours with no water?

Dr. B: Correct. Even when water was left next to them, some of them wouldn’t reach for it. But the young people drank water, and corrected this dehydration. Now, this is a major problem, and that’s why we have so many people in the elderly sector of our society who are sick, because they are totally dehydrated and they do not recognize it.

So, waiting to get thirsty is to die prematurely and very painfully. In fact, this is the title of an article that is posted on my website, www.WaterCure.com, and also on NAFHIM, National Association For Honesty In Medicine (http://www.nafhim.org).

We should not wait to get thirsty, because water is the main source of energy. By the time you get thirsty, you will have lost energy from the water that you should have drunk and made available before you get thirsty. So, if you don’t allow the gas tank of your car to come dry before you stop and take some gas, then why should you let your body become thirsty so that it stalls on the roadside before you drink water?

So, first thing, people should never allow themselves to get thirsty — they should drink throughout the day. An average person needs two quarts of water a day. Average person really needs four quarts of water a day. But two quarts we have to supply. Two quarts we get from food metabolism and water content in foods. We need this amount of water to manufacture at least two quarts of urine. You know, not to put pressure on the kidneys. When we drink enough water so that the urine is colorless, that is a good sign. When the urine becomes yellow, it means that the body is beginning to become dehydrated and when it becomes orange, then the body is truly dehydrated and some part of the body is suffering from that dehydration.

Mike: So this is a very easy sign that people can pay attention to.

Dr. B: Absolutely.

Mike: They don’t need a medical degree to see the color of their urine.

Dr. B: Well, that’s why we should become observant to our urine production. And breathing — when we are short of breath, it means we are dehydrated.

Mike: Are there other similar, simple symptoms that people can pay attention to?

Dr. B: The skin — if the skin is nice and loose and smooth, then we are hydrated. If it becomes creasy and shriveled, it means dehydration. The crow’s feet on the face of elderly people, that’s a sign of dehydration. The turkey neck under the chin is a sign of dehydration. These are mentioned in my books, Your Body’s Many Cries for Water, and also in my Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. I recommend everyone to read Water Cures, Drugs Kill, because in this book I’ve identified over 90 health problems that we in medicine have called disease, and yet water cures them.

So, when the body is short of water and they give it medication, naturally the person will die, because the medication is silencing the many cries of the body for water. But it’s not correcting the dehydration. So we need to understand these symptoms of dehydration, and the book Water Cures, Drugs Kill will do that. People can order through the internet at http://www.watercure.com or Amazon.com or
Barnesandnoble.com or go to the bookstore and get it.

Mike: You have an upcoming book on obesity, cancer, and depression, right?

Dr. B: Yes, I’ve got a book called Obesity, Cancer and Depression: The Common Cause and Actual Cure. I’ve identified why these three diseases are actually the branches of the same tree, and each one naturally produces a different problem at different age brackets, but they are all related conditions that occur as a result of dehydration over time. Time is of essence — when incrementally we become dehydrated, the prune-like cells begin to transform. Some of them become cancerous, and I’ve explained all of this in the book. I explain how dehydration suppresses the immune system, directly or indirectly, and that’s how most diseases occur, including cancer.

Mike: When is this book going to be published?

Dr. B: It will be available by the end of the year. People can keep an eye on the website
http://www.watercure.com, and it will be posted there when the book is available.

Sodas cause dehydration

Mike: Now here’s another interesting question people have — when they go out to eat at a restaurant, there’s a tremendous amount of economic pressure from the point of view of the restaurant chain or restaurant owner to serve them something other than water. I remember there was a campaign at one time through Olive Garden restaurants. The campaign was called Just Say No to H2O, and they were rewarding waiters for making sure people bought some soft drinks rather than drinking water.

Dr. B: That’s because everyone is after a fast buck, even at the expense of someone else’s health. These restaurants are no different from the pharmaceutical industry when they push something that the body doesn’t need. Of course, they don’t know, they don’t do it knowingly. One can’t fault them. It’s bad education, and we think that these soft drinks are synonymous with water.

Actually, a lot of children who drink soft drinks actually become “stupid”, but once you take the soft drink away from them, their grades improve tremendously — C’s and F’s become A’s and B’s. So, there is something in caffeine that suppresses the enzymes from memory-making. And this is exactly how the plant survives, because caffeine is a toxic chemical – it’s a warfare chemical for the plant. Anything that would eat it will lose its art of camouflage, its alertness, good reaction, good response, and becomes easy prey to its own food chain predator.

Mike: Yes, caffeine is technically an insecticide.

Dr. B: Caffeine is technically an insecticide. So is morphine and so is cocaine. They are the same family of drugs — neurotoxic substances.

Mike: Is there anything else in particular that our listeners should be aware of or should do to enhance their health through the information that you make available?

Dr. B: Yes, they can keep in touch. They can go to my website on a regular basis, and we post information there and letters that we exchange and so on. They can become part of the movement to bring honesty back into medicine. Because if they’re young people, they’ve got many years to go, and unfortunately in a dishonest form of medical practice, they can become vulnerable.

Mike: That website is…

Dr. B: http://www.watercure.com.

Mike: And the other one is http://www.nafhim.org?

Dr. B: Yes, but they will get the option at http://www.watercure.com to go to either site. This information is free, it’s the latest information in medical science, it’s the future science of medicine, it’s the foundation of the future science of medicine, and they have it at their use, free of charge. All they have to do is become curious as to learn. And the information is in such simple language that anyone can understand it. I don’t use jargon. I use very simple English to explain complicated problems.

Mike: I thank you so much for your generosity, being willing to take this time and share your wisdom with the world.

Dr. B: Mike, it is my pleasure, and I thank you. I’m here to be heard and you make it possible for me to be heard, and I’m grateful to you.

Mike: Indeed, and likewise from this side. It’s people like you that will revolutionize medicine, and that’s what we need today.

Dr. B: Bernard Shaw says that normal people try to conform, and reasonable people do not conform, and look for alternatives. Therefore all progress belongs to unreasonable people.

About This Interview

You’ve been reading from an exclusive interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj, author of Water For Health, For Healing, For Life. Dr. B. is also the founder of the National Association for Honesty in Medicine and author of, Your Body’s Many Cries For Water. Look for his new, upcoming book, “Obesity, Cancer and Depression: Their Common Cause and Actual Cure.” Learn more about Dr. B. at www.WaterCure.com

The Water Cure: An interview with Dr. Batmanghelidj

Tasmanian devils listed as endangered in Australia

Associated Press

05.22.09, 01:30 AM EDT

The Tasmanian devil, a snarling fox-sized marsupial made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz, was listed in Australia as an endangered species Friday because of a contagious cancer that has wiped out most of the wild population.

The upgrade from “vulnerable” under Australian environmental law entitles the world’s largest marsupial carnivore to greater protection in the island state of Tasmania, Environment Minister Peter Garrett said in a statement.

Devils do not exist in the wild outside Tasmania, although mainland zoos are breeding captive populations as a strategy against total extinction.

Their numbers have declined by 70 percent since the facial cancer was first reported in 1996. The disease is caused by bites inflicted on each other’s faces as part of a bizarre mating ritual or while squabbling over food. It causes grotesque facial tumors that eventually prevent them from feeding, leading to starvation within months.

“Strong action is being taken to find out more about this disease and to stop its spread,” Garrett said.

The government has already committed 10 million Australian dollars ($7.8 million) over five years to research the disease and support captive breeding programs.

Scientists have been working since the disease first emerged to save the animals, known for their powerful jaws and bloodcurdling growl. Programs to try to save them include plans to relocate breeding pairs to island sanctuaries.

University of Sydney researchers seeking to understand how a facial cancer could be contagious found that the tumors had originated from a single cell line that spreads by biting. Because Tasmanian devils are genetically similar, their bodies do not recognize the tumors as foreign cells and do not produce an effective immune response.

Warner Bros., which owns Taz, and CNN founder Ted Turner, who started the Cartoon Network, have helped fund the fight against the disease.

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