I’ve tried hundreds of supplements, herbs, and all sorts of concoctions over the years. So has my teacher – his were primarily Chinese formulas and many at that. Our joint conclusion is that NONE can help you increase your level of cultivation in the sense that eating the right supplements will help you build your muscles. You just have to meditate.

However, I have discovered that the Taoists were right — there is a big benefit to reducing the level of germs and viruses in the body, and candida too. I wrote about the modern Taoist approach in http://www.meditationexpert.com/stubborninfections.html

What I’d like to do is add a simple Candida protocol. Ready?

Candisol right before bedtime and immediately upon waking up.

If that’s not enough, add Oregacillin, Physicians strength. And if not enough, www.PurestColloids.com colloidal silver.

If you’ve had Candida for a while and tried everything, then do this for one month priori: SeaCure to help heal the intestinal lining (leaky gut) and Beach Wood Canyon brand PC 1-2-3 to help change the gut chemistry. Dr. Ohira’s probiotic is helpful at this time but optional.

That’s it. For simplicity sake, Candisol + Oregacillin is just fine.

The result after a minor die off reaction is reduced Candida load, and a clearer mind. That clarity (because you’re not fighting the toxins given off by those organisms or their chi) will help you in your meditation efforts. It won’t help improve your meditation so-to-speak, but will provide clarity of mind that will help you with vipassana.

As for detoxing the body, yes the same old story (I do this every year):
Nature’s Pure Body
+ nattokinase
+ Vitalzym

Frank Key told me that two doctors (Dr. John Coombs of Ottawa Canada and Dr. Luke Lentz of Florida) independently came up with the exact same protocol for Lyme disease :

2 ounces of Purest Colloids Colloidal Silver, 4 times a day, for 3 months

Thought you should know.

To transform the teeth in cultivation is hard. Very hard. Teeth stand for money in many fortune telling methods — lose money or make money you can tell by the teeth such as tooth aches, lost teeth, broken teeth, infections, and so forth. Even the appearance of teeth means something. When the teeth all point inwards you can know that person is selfish and always thinks of themselves first no matter how generous they may outwardly seem. You can know all sorts of things about someone’s personality by their teeth and many face fortune telling books can teach you some basics. Every part of your body reflects your fortune, but ordinary people don’t know how to read it. Of particular importance are the bones, which is why I encourage you to cultivate your skeleton and make skeleton offerings.

As people get older, they tend to lose their teeth. Cavities filled with mercury, rather than non-toxic substances contribute to health problems later in life, too. Root canals are another problem you can trace to breast cancer, heart health or other health issues; the impacted infection beneath a particular tooth follows its acupuncture meridian down to an organ to hurt it.

What do you do to maintain healthy teeth? Brush, floss, gargle, etc. Anything more?

Get ready for this — BLOT the gums. Many people have bleeding gums and then root canals and major gum problems later because they’ve been brushing incorrectly all their life. What they should be doing is blotting their teeth, which can often save them once you learn how to do it. In fact, blotting, we are told, is superior to brushing because people brush crap into their gums just beneath the gum lines. That’s what causes gum disease and infections later on despite all the flossing and brushing you may do. Some people develop gum problems and then follow their dentist’s orders to brush and floss religiously but the problem gets worse and worse despite their efforts. What can help? What do you do in this situation if this is you?

Go purchase this inexpensive DVD from the Price Pottenger Foundation and show your family, especially if you are over thirty years old. Learn to do this. It may save your teeth. It may save your friends’ teeth. Everything you’ve been taught about brushing is mostly wrong. And buy two several of their special tooth brushes (just $2.50) while you’re at it because you’ll need them:

http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=47&osCsid=b5abb7e433756af38fa4970f77ffe23d

Root canals? Read this:

http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=194&osCsid=b5abb7e433756af38fa4970f77ffe23d

What else to know? In Taoism you’re taught to chomp on your teeth about two dozen times every day to keep them healthy. Perhaps this works because it shakes their roots to help prevent infections. Also you’re taught to clench your teeth just a bit when you defecate because you’re losing chi below and the closed teeth pulls the chi upwards. But don’t grind them! That’s not the teaching.

In India they teach you to use a tongue scraper to scrape off the gunk on the tongue every morning, or at least brush it off. Smart! Don’t swallow it! Using a tongue scraper is the best way and it costs about $6. Also, wipe the sides of the mouth with a tooth brush too as the Price Pottenger DVD shows. That’s where bacteria are, so do it! get that DVD because I guarantee you haven’t been taught this, and I want you to keep your teeth, save your teeth, and make money. I don’t want anyone to lose their teeth and I want everyone to make money.

Okay, for bleeding gums and gum disease I’ve been told this natural formula works: OraMD which you can buy on the web. Dr. Richard Schulze of the American Botanical Pharmacy has a cayenne pepper gum formula that works for some people, too, but I’d try the OraMD first. You just put 1-2 drops on your finger and rub it in, or put it on your toothbrush and brush it on your gums. You never know which will work for you.

Edgar Cayce recommended Ipsab and the mouthwash Ipsadent, both of which can be found on the web along with stories of their workability or not.

And water picks? Fantastic idea.

Does tartar build up all the time despite brushing and all sorts of methods? I believe Dr. David Williams was the one who reported it might be due to a clogged gall bladder not secreting enough bile.

Now for a cultivation topic — transforming the teeth as promised. You have to reach the stage where you push out the dirty chi within the chi channel beneath each tooth. Even for the teeth that are not there you do this. In fact, for the extra Buddha teeth that are not even there (a rupakaya has 40 perfectly aligned teeth, gapless, pure white without decay, etc.), you do this to prepare for that one day in the future. You just push the dirty chi out the center of the tooth, and then later push off the tooth bone chi as well (which is something you’ve done for countless times for other bones to even get close to this stage). This can be accomplished at the stage wherein your etheric body appears with the curly cue hairs on your head as a Buddha does. That’s the marker for this stage. It’s a stage of achievement that has nothing to do with “Buddhism” – please remember that. “Buddha” is just a short hand name for a fully enlightened being, that’s all.

What you can do to get rid of the tooth bone chi is use the tip of the clear jelly chi (when you reach the stage where it’s clear) to from a loop like the top of a cane, and use that to push off the tooth. Or you can use you mind to squeeze it out by squeezing the roots so it pops out and just the clear chi channel is left dangling there until you push that out. That’s very effective because the teeth are stubborn. Offer them to Mahagala Buddha and the other Buddhas.

Another method is to expand the width of each tooth’s chi channel to crack the tooth surrounding it and pop off these remnants. And remember to do this not just for the teeth that are there but for teeth that you lost, and for the Buddha extra teeth that don’t appear but whose roots would be way back near to where the gums turn inwards into the body. Regular people have thirty-two teeth but Buddhas in perfected bodies have forty. Working on these extra “non-existent” teeth (you’ll find their spot if you reach this stage) is preparing for the one day you’re fully enlightened and wish to have a perfected physical form so as to provide an example for the people. People need examples which is why fully enlightened beings sometimes appear in fully perfected forms.

If you do this for all the teeth, pushing out the impure chi beneath them by pushing it through the teeth, and then later pushing off the teeth or pulling them off if you must, then the entire etheric gum bones will eventually lift off, and then a layer of bone beneath that, and so forth. The chi channels that form the areteries and veins beneath this structure will pop off and then you canpirfy them.

After the teeth and jaws, you can proceed to transform the rest of the skull, including the bones at the top of the skull and the rest of the skull bones everywhere. Congratulations. Now you have some secrets for transforming stubborn bone chi which, being earth element chi, is some of the most difficult chi to transform. Start with the skeleton method. You cannot realize how important it is to try to get a handle on trasnforming the body’s earth element, which is why I encourage this simple technique as one of your preparatory intensified practices:

http://www.meditationexpert.com/Skeleton.htm?meditation/10/Skeleton

http://www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_792/articles_792.htm

This FDA article disturbed me greatly:

http://www.naturalnews.com/024569.html

This is not what the FDA was charged to do and is exactly why more and more people feel government intruding upon them.

The prostate bothers many men. Some tell me they buy a “Prostate Cradle” and use the following protocol, which is the best supplement for the prostate I’ve ever found:

Beachwood Canyon Life Assure   (3 to 4 twice a day and even as high as 6 twice a day) + Jarrow QAbsorb100 (Minimum 2  twice a day till the condition is getting noticeably better)

The very best kidney detox/drainage formula I ever found, perhaps the best in the world, is Pekana’s Renelix.

Weak Adrenal glands? Vital Adapt and/or PowerAdapt from Natura Health Products.

Want a baby? Male reporductive support — Proceptin.

Here are some products I want you to know about…

For Sea Salt, a store that impresses me is Saltworks.us .. check out their Himalyan salt, which has a higher mineral content and greater purity than French sea salt. You can even use sea salt in home space clearing protocols. Drop it in some water. Recite some mantras over it, and fling around the corners of the house for purification purposes. Salt has always been used this way because it is a type of “yin fire” and baddies are “yin”.

http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_gourmet_reference.asp

Want to kill Candida or fungus?
Candisol + Oregacillin

Kidney/Gall stones?
Planetary Formulas Stone Free and Raintree Nutrition Chancpieda tincture

Parasites?
Beachwood Canyon PC 1-2-3

CoQ10?
Try Jarrow brand QAbsorb100

Clean the gunk out of your arteries?
Phoschol + vitamin D (Carlson D2000) + vitamin K-1 (Biotech Pharmachol K-1) + vitamin E (Unique E)

This is exciting … I always try to report on supplements and techniques that might help people regain the use of declining senses – sight, hearing, taste, etc.

Naturally you know zinc supplementation can restore the taste capabilities in people who’ve lost it. It’s a winner.

You’re probably sick of hearing about bilberry, gingko, lutein, and zeaxanthan for macular degeneration, or vitamin A plus NAC eyedrops (Life Extension supplements) plus Chinese Ba wei wan for cataracts…

What’s really exciting is to hear Dr. Jonathan Wright report that bio-identical aldosterone therapy often brings back hearing in people who have lost it. See the October 2008 (vol 15, issue #8) for details.

Bio-identical aldosterone for hearing loss!

I was just introduced to a new mineral product, MMS, chlorine dioxide, for killing off pathogens in the human body. I haven’t used it yet, but have heard wonderful things about it for Lyme Disease, Cancer and even malaria.

You can learn more about it from this site: http://www.mmsmiracle.com/mkbsfo

The other two approaches that come to mind – which the government hates — are H2O2 and colloidal silver from www.purestcolloids.com

I always try to tell people that tiny things can lead to big results, and to look for the little hinges on which the big doors swing. For instance, one tiny little thing I’d do if I were President would be to push recognition of stevia, the natural sweetener, which the FDA refuses to let us know about.

What would be the domino effect? Less sugar everywhere, less obesity, less health problems, less diabetes, healthier Americans … all because of the recognition and permission to use one natural sweetener that is far far better than sugar on so many different levels. You have to think of the domino effect of tiny acts to see how to change the world for the better.

By the way, there’s a new soft drink made from stevia called ZEVIA. Can’t wait to try it.

And another thing while I’m at it … the labeling rules of the FDA forbid manufacturers from telling you if they did NOT use hormones in their milk production, or their food was NOT irradiated and all sorts of other things we want to know about. Why outlaw such disclosures? Because the FDA bows to big business rather than the public, and big business doesn’t want us to know about the healthier options so we’d buy them..

Such small legislative changes like this could revolutionize the nation. That’s how you should think….what small thing can I do that would have tremendous results in benefitting the public?  I’m sure you could collect tons of ideas like this that cost absolutely nothing and yet the ramifications are so gigantically beneficial that we’re stupid for not doing them. Makes you wonder sometimes if someone isn’t being compensated  or rewarded in some way to keep everyone from being healthier.

Many years ago I wished to write a book entitled Genes are not Your Destiny. Neither is your environment, as Mencius would say, although it plays a big part in it. Go read Mencius and you’ll see.

Bruce Lipton, in his various works (books, videos, etc.), has seconded many of my views in this regard and provides the scientific paradigm for the same opinion. In short, genes do their thing based on what the cellular receptors of your body tell them to do. The inside of the cell doesn’t just decide to go wild, make this protein or that enzyme, but does so based on what the receptors "tell it" to do. Cellular receptors look like hairs or limbs sticking out from the membranes of cells, and  twist, turn, wiggle, fold or react … however you wish to word it and affecting the inside of the cell when they do so … based upon what they contact in the bloodstream.

Aha! Immediately this brings up the notion that if you flood your blood stream with good stuff … from good nutrition and supplements, etc. — then good things will happen. Bad stuff and bad things will happen. Continual overexposure   to a bad environment provokes an unfortunate reaction as the body tries to compensate but is eventually overwhelmed and cannot. Solution? Better environment, better good stuff to avoid a negative fate, negative outcome. White Fat Cow actually talks about this in a different way, but the same lesson comes forth. Meditation for Beautiful Skin is an entire book built around this concept.

[By the way, this article is not about this book, but I received this testimonial just the other day:

"I would like to write a testimonial regarding "Meditation for Beautiful Skin" although I have not read the entire book yet. You may use any part or all of the testimonial. It all is fascinating reading. I do not know where to start with this book. I have read large sections of this book, however, I am not finished yet because I just wanted to actually start practicing some of the information from the book.

"This book is filled with meditation techniques, nutritional information and other information regarding beauty tips. This is obviously much more than a book on superficial beauty. I set up a routine based on information from this book and am starting to see great results after only a few weeks of application. My skin is becoming so smooth and I have had several experiences with alternate states of consciousness that felt profound.

"This book is loaded with lots of practical short term and long term practices and techniques. I like the fact that you have many different alternatives to reach your spiritual, health and beauty goals from reading this book. The author really seems to have put a lot of time and research into supplying and validating information regarding everything that is in this book. This author even goes as far as telling you where to go to obtain products mentioned in the book. I am certain that anyone who is looking for practical information on how to meditate while improving their physical appearance will find more than enough help in this book."

Patricia Lodge
epamail.epa.gov]

Okay, so if you don’t activate genes because the cellular receptors don’t fire … because you in turn take care of yourself and start doing more  of the right things than wrong things, that’s a prescription for healthy living. With this understanding of cellular receptors, we then also have an understanding for why cardiovascular disease, in a family where it dominates, doesn’t seem to strike all the  family members …. and also why it can be reversed. Just do the things that don’t activate the receptors to set off the genes. Same for diabetes [see Julian Whitaker's book on reversing diabetes].  Those who eat right and exercise and take supplements designed to counter such a condition, more often than not don’t seem to activate the genes that would imperil them. A doctor would just call this "healthy living" but Lipton decribes it in terms of whether or not you activate receptors based on what you do or don’t do as a habit. In other words, he describes it from the basis of biochemistry and genes.

In short, it comes down to the same old story of exercise and good nutrition. So what about cancer, and preventative masectomies when you find out you have a "cancer gene."

First, there is no such thing as a "cancer gene". There may be a tendency for cancer, but your fate is not in the genes. It’s in what you do or don’t do. So start doing more of the right things if you find out you have this "genetic predispositon" and stop doing the wrong things.

Even the US government says most cancers are caused by environmental factors or there are nutritional causes, Therefore, to maximize your chances of avoiding cancer, eat right, detoxify, make sure your lymph channels are unrestricted, untwisted, untangled, etc. and stay away from pesticides, radiation, excess EMF and so forth.

I talk about breast health in several articles:

What I’d Do If I Was A woman Who Got Breast Cancer

Breast Cysts, Breast Health

Meditation Methods to Help Fight Cancer

Fight Cancer With Alternative Therapies

Cancer and Natural Medicine Cures

What to Do When You Have Cancer

I talk about a lot of these things and what to do about them in my Beautiful Skin book, which you should probably pick up if interested. If helps clean you out both internally and externally.

What would I do if I found I had this gene?

First thing:  a big, big, big, big , big thing. I’d detoxify every year BIG TIME – Richard Schulze products, Sally Rogers glutathione-lipoic acid detoxification protocols for the liver, etc. etc. I love Nature’s Pure Body for this purpose. I do it every year with two bottles at least.

Second — lymph drainage massage for the breast every year to keep the lymph channels clear. In my articles I explain how to find someone who can do this.

Third – eat right. I like Master Naturopath David Getoff’s ideas on eating as natural as possible. A big thing you should do is get an allergy test from a blood work lab like Immunolabs, find out what foods make you sick that you don’t know about, and stop eating them. They’re taxing your immune system. Cut them out and you’ll lose weight and probably feel better, too. Unbelievable results. Basically, you’re "removing the probable causes".

And of course there are special anti-cancer supplements you can take.

Once or twice a year you should do an immune boosting routine to help clean everything out. That’s why I never worry about colds and flus. They help you rev up your immune system to clean out the garbage that’s accumulated over time, like a typhoon in Asia that comes along every year and blows away the trees and plants that are too weak and encumbering the rest of the vegetation. Recessions do that too, by the way — they come along and get rid of weak economic players too fragile for the economic system.

So genes are NOT your destiny. React but don’t overreact. Change your habits and you change your life. You change your risks, you change everything.

And don’t forget to meditate, too!

I recently saw an article in Snow Lion Publications’ catalog about how meditation can shift your level of steady state happiness.

Yes, it’s true. Kudos to science for finding this out, but you don’t need a researcher to tell you this. First, as you open up more and more of your chi channels, more chi flows freely in your body and you get progressively closer to the happiness and bliss of the first dhyana. It all depends upon your meditation efforts and   your cumulative progress.

Second, meditation progress depends on detachment, not clinging to thoughts, being empty and free. Thoughts come up but you just don’t cling to them because they are not you.  They are transient and will pass away. In fact, "being a YOU" is a false thought as well. As thoughts die down and the blue sky of cloudless empty mind appears, of course your baseline of happiness will increase. What thoughts are there to prevent it?

Dr. Kabat-Zinn taught mindfulness meditation to high stress, high tech workers and found it made them less anxious, mor eenergized and more purposeful about their works. Those are the things he could measure. Naturally we go into the deeper aspects because we’re not interested in superficial results but the real target of enlightenment to your original nature that’s always there.

Another Dr. Zhang, this time in Shanghai, treats people with his own method similar to a chiropractic technique used for 50 years in America.

I often tell people that in many cases their back problem could be fixed by having the kneecap reset. This traditional Chinese doctor in Hong Kong shows how it’s done.

 

Here he is resetting my finger and hand bones:

 

 

One of my Stages students told me he was having stomach problems. For nearly a decade he was on and off various pharma drugs for gastric distress, acid reflux and the like. I’m sure you’ve seen  the brand names he used on TV.

"Why not try L-glutamine?" I asked. So off he went to buy a bottle. It didn’t work. He tried another bottle. It didn’t work. He tried a third bottle with a company brand I always recommend – Jarrow – and with one tablet his multiyear problem finally disappeared. He told a friend, who tried one as well, and BINGO! – His many years of suffering were now gone one as well.

Now I’m not saying that L-Glutamine will cure your stomach problems, but it certainly is one of the first things I’d try (in addition to looking at your diet and eating habits). All the Stages students get a free workover like this. I’d try PepZingi along with L-glutamine (also Jarrow brand) which is a carnosine-zinc supplement that might help, too. The big lesson  is that this student tried two other brands before he found one that worked. That’s the interesting thing, and it’s the point I always make with nutritional supplements – BRANDS matter, and don’t discount a simple remedy if you tried it but used an inferior brand company. I’m amazed that he had trusted my recommendation enough to keep trying bottles and also that the first bottle didn’t work.

Why should the first bottle have worked? Because L-glutamine is an amino acid. It’s a commodity product. It should be the same from company to company. So  the first bottle should have worked. Yet it didn’t. Neither did the second bottle, yet it should have for a commodity product like L-glutamine. Finally when he tried the orignal brand I had recommended (int he first place), the problem was solved.

Quality matters. Brands matter. Many companies offer non-pharmaceutical grade products that just don’t work – and that might have beent he problem here. You check the label, it looks ok, but the supplement  just doesn’t work because the company  used inferior grade products.

That’s usually what happens when you buy a product because of some direct mail piece….you’re wasting your cash.  It also happens with the large corporate companies who buy a family owned supplements firm, and then start substituting cheaper ingredients for  grade A ingredients to increase the margins. The execs  pat themelves on the back as margins and profits improve for a year or so, but then cannot figure out why in year 2 or 3 people aren’t reordering anymore. "The market must be changing," they figure. Iditos – they destroyed their product for short term money. That’s what large corporations do. That’s how they think. "It’s exactly the same substance so it shouldnot matter since the chemical is the same," they convince themselves. But it isn’t.

Coincidentally today I was talking to a famous naturopath who told me he feels less than 5% of nutritional products work or do what you hope they’ll do. Coincidentally today I also bumped into the NOW representative for New York, and we spent an hour talking about the NOW brand which is one of the two that I always recommend. WHY? It’s cheaper than others because they cut out the middle man distributor (which lowers prices by about 25%) and also most of their sales to health stores are done by phone fromt he home office. That’s another big savings, on top of the fact they do very little advertising for a big savings as well. But most of all, it’s still a family held firm that CARES about the products it makes and the ingredients used. Quality is still important.

NOW also has a stomach supplement - the name escapes me – but you can find it and might try it, too. NOW has a fantastic glucosamine-chondroitin formula whose quality is much better than what you’ll find elsewhere when dealing with arthritis and joint problem supplements. They have a new heart supplement and they introduced a very special vitamin E that may give Unique E and Yasso E a run for their money. If you need vitamin E, try their Tru-E brand.

In short,  if you want to try out a supplement when you go to the store, try these two brands first: Jarrow and NOW. They are not always the brand I recommend, but if you have no idea what to buy when you go to a store then you have a high probability of doing OKAY with these two companies.

That’s just my two cents to help you.