With all the information offered for free on this website, people start thinking maybe this guy knows something. Yeah this might be the guy who’s going to tell me what magic bullet I should be taking that’s going to cure my diseases, and forestall my imminent meeting with Elvis.

In keeping with the universal law that No Good Deed Goes Unpunished then, I get all these emails and phone calls from all over the world where people are describing their clinical history in lurid detail – what can you do for diabetes? What can you give me for arthritis? What do you got for high blood pressure, weight loss, thyroid, hot flashes, cancer, reflux, chronic fatigue… What they’re really saying is – what magic bullet can you give me that will cure my problem and still allow me to continue my toxifying self-destructive lifestyle of self abuse?

I know where this idea came from. This is the promise of organized medicine: our health is not our responsibility. Diseases and illness are not our fault. It’s a bug, or better yet – it’s genetic.

When it comes to health, we try the easiest stuff first. Doctor appointments, tests, MRI, procedures, drugs, and more drugs – sometimes even surgery. All the things that THEY do – anything that doesn’t require our participation. The comforting illusion that we’re doing something about our problem by letting somebody else do it.

After a while, when all this has failed, a little light goes on – for some. And that’s the idea that these guys really don’t know what they’re doing. And that if you’re going to stop this downward spiral, it’ll be totally 100% up to you.

So maybe you’ve come to that point of self-loathing or desperation or confusion or being fed up or whatever where you really want to make a change because you know you have to. Maybe it’s a chronic digestive problem. Or a “weak heart.” Or diabetes. Or chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or MS. Or arthritis, or allergies, or asthma. Or a cross reaction from those combinations of medications all those guys are giving you, without much consideration or concern, after that 5 minute office visit. With a nurse.

It comes down to this: there are several areas each of which must be addressed on a daily basis, for at least 60 days if you are to have any hope at all of making the shift from declining health to improving health.

These include:

* Hydration – water intake
* Colon health
* Enzymes and digestion
* Drug check
* Subluxation resolution
* Vitamins and minerals
* The NewWest Diet
* Motion
* Sunshine
* Escape causative social pattern

Most of the above have entire chapters devoted to them at www.thedoctorwithin.com. Each one of them must be confronted directly if the sick person is to have any chance of being healthy again – really healthy, that is, not just the temporary absence of symptoms. Inside-out health – the genuine article. So please read each chapter – the whole thing.

Right here we’ll just mention a few key points about each one. Again, each area is critical – it’s all or nothing. Stop reading here if you’re too exhausted to care about your health to do this little assignment. Or if you’re committed to doing “as much as you can” to get better. This program is not for the irresolute wimp. If you think all this is not your job, sayonara. Ask for more drugs. Give John Lennon my regards. And stop whining, would you please? With 7 billion people on the planet do you really think you’ll be missed?

A few words about each critical area:

1. Hydration.

You must start to drink a minimum of 1-2 liters of water per day. No exceptions. No excuses. None. This means you. Starting now. Do it. Read Water chapter.

2. Colon health. Two part detox is described in the 60 Day program: herbs and flora. Remember what the ancients said: death begins in the colon. Read chapter.

3. Enzymes

If at least 80% of your diet is not raw foods, you need enzyme supplementation. Twofold action: breaks down the rotting food residues in the tract and in the blood, and secondly, helps digest new food. Read chapter.

4. Drug check.

Get a Physicians Desk Reference. I don’t know, just get one. WalMart maybe. Or any library. Get your glasses or a magnifying glass. Look up every drug you’re taking. Read all the fine print on each one. Much of it is doctor-babble, but you’ll be able to understand the part about Adverse Reactions. That means side effects. Read the whole section on each drug. When you’re all done, ask yourself – did your doctor do all that reading before he wrote you the prescription? Then read Conventional Medicine Vs. Holistic . If drugs were going to cure you, wouldn’t you’d already be better? See how many of your current problems are listed as side effects of the drugs you’re taking. Exactly when did you expect your doctor to take you off drugs?

Of course I’m presuming tobacco and excess alcohol don’t even figure into the equation here. Can’t save a man from drowning if he keeps diving for the bottom.

5. Subluxation.

Find a chiropractor who knows what this word means. It means spinal distortions that block and choke off nerve messages. The brain is connected to the body via the nervous system. If there is interference in those lines of communication, the organs and tissues won’t work correctly. Get it?

6. Vitamins and minerals.

Each has its own chapter on the website. Read the whole thing.

Vitamins are worthless without minerals and enzymes. Enzymes are worthless without vitamins and minerals. Minerals are worthless without vitamins and enzymes.

Vitamins and minerals are micronutrients we need every day. Useful enzymes are found only in natural foods.

7. The New West Diet.

See the short chapter titled the New West Diet. Thought we could just leave it at: Stop Eating Trash. But people whine for a little more specificity. So here it is: Categories I through IV. And for the first 60 days, only Categories I and II.

8. Motion

Think of it in terms of the lymphatic system. What’s that? There’s a second complete circulatory system throughout the entire body that carries not blood, but lymphatic fluid. This is the circulating immune system which carries away cell wastes and helps identify foreign stuff. Problem is, the lymph system has no pump to move the fluid around the way the heart pumps the blood through your arteries. The only way lymph gets circulated is motion – exercise. Without motion, this waste dumping system backs up. Want to get old fast? Stop moving.

The idea is, after you’ve learned about colon detox and freeing up blocked stuff in the blood with enzyme supplementation, it’s not enough to free all this toxic debris from its resting place. Now it’s gotta be moved through and dumped. And the lymph system plays a big role in that dumpage. Walking, running, swimming, bicycling, – something!

9. Sunshine

It’s located outdoors. Get some.

10. Escape causative social pattern

This step cannot be skipped. Many factors over the years create a disease process in the body. You can have the best diet, the best vitamins in the world, but if the people in your immediate social circle are unbalanced, negative, and diseased themselves, it will be impossible to transform your destructive lifestyle to a healing lifestyle. Do not pretend you can ignore this very powerful piece of the pathological jigsaw puzzle that is killing you. You know what I’m talking about. You might change all the above factors and skip this last one, but still die right on schedule. Don’t underestimate the social context that helped create your disease condition in the first place.

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When it comes to drugs or to supplements, people are looking for the Magic Bullet – that one pill that is going to take away their pain or disease without them having to change anything in their diet or lifestyle. What they really want is to have something done to them that requires no participation on their part and more importantly, that will allow them to continue their current lifestyle of self-abuse from toxic indigestible party foods. Drug manufacturers and supplement companies know this, and target their advertising in the direction of exactly that mindset: don’t worry. We’ll cure you. We’ll take it from here. Diet has nothing to do with your illness – it’s genetic. You have no responsibility for your own health – just leave it to us. All you have to do is take this pill three times a day and 25 years of drinking, smoking, and overeating will just melt away…

The health care system in this country today is just not working. More and more people are abandoning mainstream medicine in favor of natural methods that work with the body, not against it.

But here again, alternative medicine is such a quagmire of false claims, hyperbole, and confusion that most of it doesn’t work either. So how will you know what works and what doesn’t? One way is blood analysis. Learn how the circulation is clogged by indigestible reactive foods. Learn how to clear that.

Another way is have some basic criteria for supplements. A few suggestions:

Enzymes must be whole food, and be completely bioavailable for your cells to use.

Minerals must be chelated, and be one of the 20 or so proven beneficial to humans. No 88-mineral colloidal toddies.

Colon cleanses must be non-corrosive, gentle, effective whole herbs only.

Vitamins must be whole food. No synthetics. Green foods and food grade herbs.

Flora must be stable blends. No soil based organisms or single strains.

Water should have some minerals – top of the line filters, or high end alkalyzers. No distilled or reverse osmosis.

Antioxidants should be able to reduce all free radicals in your blood after 30 minutes.

EFAs should be high-end blends.

Figure out how to streamline your supplement intake. You don’t need a wheelbarrowload every day. Just a few high end items. And that’s what the 60 Day Program details.

The 60 Day Detox program is really very simple once you realize that you’re only going to be putting stuff in your mouth that will do one of two things:

cleanse

nourish

Couldn’t be simpler. After you’ve addressed these 10 areas religiously for 60 days and you still have some problems that don’t seem to be going away, that may be the time to get advice on refining your program a little. But until you’ve done 60 days of this basic program, you’re wasting your time even asking for advice. This is the start of health, the bare minimum.

So give yourself one last break. Whatever you need to do to get the self confidence to win this battle, do it. If this is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to do, seems like life’s been good to you so far.

Quoting Henry Ford again, whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.