Consider the Lilies of the field, how they grow;
they toil not, neither do they spin;
And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
(Matt: 6: 28 & 29)
 

The Single Most Important Piece Of Health Advice!

Drink more water!  Click here.

The Next Most Important Piece Of Health Advice!

Eat Less Sugar!  Click here.

The Four Roads to Ruin! Click here.

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   Personal Messages Answered By Karl Loren

One of the continuing joys of my life is responding to the many personal messages I receive.  Most of them ask some sort of a health-related question.  I answer every one of them.  It is not unusual for me to engage in an extensive dialogue with someone -- a complete stranger as we start, but often a close friend at the end of several messages.

Probably my most extensive exchange of messages started with Dr. Ayyangar, in India, wanting to sell me MSM from his factory.  After more than 300 messages he came to visit for a week. We are very best friends. Click here for one of my products which he invented, and his photo.

I've done enough of this, now, to recognize certain patterns in the messages I receive.

Many of these messages present what seem to be very complex problems.

These are the people who write something like the following:

Dear Karl,

I've been told I have Fibromyalgia.

 I seem to be tired and in pain.

 I am currently taking Ambien to help me sleep and Celebrex for the pain occasionally.

I take Loratab but I hate feeling tired all the time and I have no energy I can't remember nothing I don't like this feeling.

I want to be healthy.

I've gained about 94lbs in the last year and an half I seemed to be too tired to do anything sometimes to tired to even care.

Help me please I want to be healthy and I want to enjoy my life again.

Julie

As you can guess, Julie does NOT need my vitamins.

She is taking three terrible drugs.  Two of them are addictive narcotics.  One is just dangerous.  Would you think that an honest person would offer to sell her his vitamin product?  No way!

(Incidentally, Julie spells it as "Loratab" and it can be found on the web that way, but the actual spelling is "Lortab," and under that spelling you get lots more information.  Lortab is USED just like one of the common illegal drugs because it has many of the same effects on the body as ordinary street drugs.  You might think that the drug makers do this on purpose?)

Here is what the US Justice Department has to say about this "controlled substance" stuff:

Hydrocodone [Lortab] abuse has been escalating over the last decade. There has been large scale diversion of hydrocodone. For example, an estimated 7 million dosage units were diverted in 1994 and over 11 million in 1997. In 1998 there were over 56 million new prescriptions written for hydrocodone products and by 2000 there were over 89 million. From 1990 the average consumption nationwide has increased by 300%. In the same period there has been a 500% increase in the number of Emergency Department visits attributed to hydrocodone abuse with 19,221 visits estimated in 2000. In 1997, there were over 1.3 million hydrocodone tablets seized and analyzed by the DEA laboratory system. A recent petition submitted to the DEA has requested a review of the control status of all hydrocodone-containing products. [source]

So, Julie has fallen into the hands of the usual drug-dealer, the doctor who escapes criminal prosecution because he does it within the law.  The psychiatrists are the worst drug peddlers.  Their drugs are the most harmful to the body, but are still legal.

Julie has a "disease" that uses a word, "Fibromyalgia" that doctors are using because they don't know what else to call it -- it is a made-up term.  It is a fancy word that means "pain in the muscles and tendons." 

Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes pain in the muscles, joints, ligaments and tendons. The pain occurs in areas called tender points. Common tender points are the front of the knees, the elbows, the hip joints and around the neck.  [source]

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Lab tests for fibromyalgia are valid only to rule out other conditions. There is no blood test that can accurately identify fibromyalgia.

The official definition requires that tender points must be present in all four quadrants of the body -- that is, the upper right and left and lower right and left parts of your body. You must have had widespread, more-or-less continuous pain for at least three months.  [source]

It is NOT a mental disease -- it a mental problem only in that the person believes false data about diet and health.  He or she continuously engages in terrible health practices, and won't listen to logic or facts.   Doctors don't help any here because they have crazy ideas about diet anyway!

If you search on the web for this term you will find many, many "support groups" but no honest doctor who has a treatment that will work. Why?  Because drugs are NOT the answer.

What is the answer?

Drink more water and change the diet.  But, first, of course, is to stop taking those terrible drugs.

You see how simple health can be -- this lady has a complicated health problem.  It is complicated because she has decided to have a complicated problem and dishonest doctors have offered to treat people with these foolish diseases -- with drugs usually.  The drugs never help, so she goes to another doctor, who gives her yet another drug -- eventually her health problem is very complicated.

Others might get shots of Cortisone!  Terrible!

I actually sent her my reply on  August 6, 2001.

Dear Julie,

You can be healthy -0- you must stop the drugs and eat properly.

Gaining 94 pounds is your problem.

No matter what you say, it is still you who puts too much carbohydrates into your body.

You can eat better.  You must want to.

If you do not, you will get worse and worse.

Sincerely,

Karl Loren

Of course she did not reply. She will certainly not buy my vitamins, and she will get worse and worse and worse.

Other places would see her as an opportunity to sell some miracle pill == make money while you can!

She could see another doctor, and get another prescription, probably next would be Prozac.  There is a very, very predictable pattern here.  You have seen people like Julie around you -- it is usually a waste of time to try to help people who are trying, desperately, to die.  It is not that they cannot be helped.

They can be helped.

But, drugs are not their solution.  They need discipline in their lives -- they need a simple remedy.  Like drink more water, eat less sugar, get some exercise.  Most usually these people are NOT supporting themselves financially -- they get free care and soak up as much as they can.  It is a crime for a doctor to take a fee when all he does is prescribe another drug.

They demand complex solutions, yet need simple ones. They will refuse the simple solution -- so by this you can know who they are.

Karl Loren -- Philosopher of Health

The most fun I have researching and writing is on philosophical subjects, such as "What is the Puzzle of Life?"

I encourage you to click on any several of the subjects below, to see what there is to see.  Some of these, more than others, emphasize simplicity over complexity.

The simplicity of health was first described by me in the concept of "The Four Roads To Ruin, Or Your Health In The Twenty-first Century."

The first road to ruined health is false information you may have swallowed.  Much of my writing is devoted to exposing the lies and bringing you the truth. The truth is most often far more simple than the lies.

Lies tend to become complicated because more lies are needed to cover the first lie.   Truth lies in the direction of simplicity.

The second road to ruined health is the fact that too few people recognize that mental and spiritual health is more important than physical health, actually causes physical health, and far too many people think they can get mental health from a psychiatrist.  As you have seen, I write about this a great deal also.

The third road to ruined health are the toxins that have accumulated in your body. There are many toxins, and many ways to detoxify.  The hallmark of Vibrant Life is the whole concept of "oral chelation" based on the notion that your body has toxic metals that cause heart disease and cancer -- toxic metals that can be removed with any of my three formulas.

The fourth road to ruined health are the deficiencies in our food -- the lack of nutrients often because the soil has long-lost the minerals that are needed.  Vitamins and supplements are the solution here.

This, above, is the simplicity of health for the Twenty-First Century!

The complexities are drugs and ever-more complex surgical procedures.

The choice is clear.

Here are articles that may interest you.

Article One	What Is The Puzzle Of Life? I SUGGEST to you that the puzzle of life is NOT to study chaos [or disease], but to understand life, to bring order into the universe of chaos. THAT is the subject of this Viewpoint – the bringing of order out of chaos. I offer you a tool for that purpose.
Article Two	AIDS!  Is The Virus Alive?
Article Three	The Downward Spiral Of Medical Corruption Modern medicine treats edema with a diuretic. If there is too much fluid, take a drug and then pee the "excess" water out! When you understand the body’s need for water, covered in my Book, you’ll see that edema is a sign that the body is dehydrated and is hanging on to whatever water is available. The cure for edema is usually to drink more water, not pee it out. The woman in this story read that in my Book, just a short while after her mother died. A lack of water can cause hypertension, or even depression. When a doctor "treats" hypertension with an antihypertensive drug, instead of finding the true cause, he is guilty of malpractice, in my book. The drugs mentioned in the story below, Lasix and Capoten, are both psych-oriented diuretic antihypertensive drugs.
Article Four	Smokestack Medicine Modern medicine is stuck in the era of the Smokestack Economy.   Medicine has always been a knowledge-based service industry, but in the smokestack era that knowledge was kept secret within cloistered halls.
Article Five	What Is Wellness? Wellness suffers all the more because we have now arrived at the point where the quantity of false information on "health" far exceeds the quantity of valid information. We have even gotten to the point where a fairly large proportion of the false information can be traced back to deliberate programs to hide the truth and create sickness.  Click Here, for instance, to see that there is even fraud and deceit among the so-called vitamin promoters. More people prosper because of cancer than die from it! The doctors, drug companies, researchers, and others, all profit from "no cure". Billions have been spent on cancer research, but in this Viewpoint you will learn why it is that those billions have been spent with the only result that there is more cancer and less chance for cure.  Click Here to read about the fraud of Eli Lilly, one of the worst offenders in the field of drugging America.
Article Six	What Is Natural Death?
Article Seven	Fixed Viewpoints
Article Eight	Disease Insurance Vs Health Insurance! Medical costs are amongst the most rapidly rising of all costs. The government, and large companies, put tremendous pressure on doctors and the insurance companies to lower those costs. There is only one way that can be done -- rationed care no matter what you call it. One way or another, the insurance companies have to have a set of rules (acceptable diseases and approved treatments) as to what type of care will be insured. The decision is always made by some committee, and your own doctor has little to say in this decision. You, of course, have no say! Bureaucrats KNOW the costs are too high, but they can’t figure out how to force them lower. So, they invent thousands of rules that limit the doctors’ choices. They rule that doctors treat certain diseases ONLY with certain approved procedures. However they do it, they invent thousands of rules which take the decision out of the doctor’s hands -- if the doctor wants to be paid by the insurance.
Article Nine	Which Way Is Up?  (This issue has become lost!)
Article Ten	Do You Have A Right To Die?
Article 11	Mental Mischief   (Somehow never published -- paper copies are available -- write to request a free one)
Article 12	Medical Model If you thought World War II, or Vietnam were horrible wars, wait until you see the battle coming in the next decade -- the battle between the entrenched medical model and the new healing model, called here the Wellness Model. The casualties in this battle will number in the millions -- people who die terrible deaths that could have been easily prevented, with knowledge we now have, but which is withheld from you by medical schools and a corrupt media. Like mortar shells, they drop in on you without warning, or knowing the source. People will die! They will blame many wrong sources, but the real cause is the medical model.

I urge you to look for the simple answers to health problems -- they will almost always involve drinking more water and eating less sugar. These two suggestions would be vital to the wellness of, probably, more than 80% of our population.

That group, however, is very likely NOT subscribing to this newsletter -- so I now URGE you to take up this mission. After all, some of these people are your parents, your children, your neighbors and friends.

They need the truth, and you are my link to them.  Help your fellow with this simple message -- drink more water, eat less sugar.

Small Items Of Big Importance

Two months ago I wrote the October 2001 issue of The Wednesday Letter, about the Terrorist Attack.  Obviously there has been a great deal more media coverage of this subject.

However, the most important message I had about the terrorist attack has not yet been covered in the media. There is some new evidence of this strange omission in an otherwise great article in the Wall Street Journal.

I have added a few pages to the Terrorist Article where it appears in its own section of one of my 12 web sites. That article is HERE.  What I've added is shown below, with a link to the WSJ article that has just been published.  I think you'll enjoy this brief addition to my article from October, and the story in the WSJ.

Another member of Bin Laden's team, a psychologist, was Ali A. Mohammad.  This man is in a US jail right now and has apparently provided a great deal of secret testimony to the US -- we have a great deal of hidden knowledge about this man, and the entire terrorist network.  Mr. Ali was a member of the US Special Forces, and received all the secret training WE had to offer, as well as then being responsible for training and brainwashing the bin Laden troops to become suicide assassins.  [I wrote the above in September, 2001, when hardly anyone even knew this guy.  Then, November 25, 2001, the Wall Street Journal carried a front page special report about him -- click here  -- but even as great as the WSJ article is, they still missed the most important issue.  This man, Mohammad, and Dr. (psychiatrist) Zawahiri, bin Laden's #2 man, are oriented toward psychology and brain washing.  It is THIS technology which creates suicide assassins, and it is THIS enemy which the media is just not reporting.  YOU, reading this, should know who the real enemy is -- psychiatry and psychology are the schools that teach the mechanics of turning normal people into suicide assassins.  You would think this is important?  It has not been covered in any media I've seen in these last months!]

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Messages to Karl Loren

I am sometimes very brutal with people who write to me.  At other times I am as gentle as a feather.  Then, there are times when I engage in deep philosophical exchanges.  Here are a couple recent examples.

One man wrote to me:

Dear Karl,

Before retiring I worked at a large teaching hospital (1,000 beds) associated with one of our universitys.  As the senior pharmacist I took part in many drug trials and learned that aanecdotal evidence was not at all reliable. New drugs ( or old ones being resurected) should be subjected to randomized double blind trials so there can be no doubt as to the veracity of the results.

Since I am now afflicted with arthritis and getting only partial relief from NSAID's, I am most ionterested in MSM. I hope that you can send me copies of some clinical trials of MSM so that I can with confidence begin a course of treatment. To repeat, I am not interested in testimonials from any individual, James Coburn included, but rather want to see data from scientific studies. Thank you for any information you can supply.

My reply was brutal.  If you are curious, click here to read my reply.

Then Bill wrote.  He was and is a delight.  He has read many of my pages and wanted to offer an opinion on something I wrote.  You might enjoy this exchange of philosophical ideas.  Click here.

Coca Cola Starts To Sell A Vitamin Drink!

I read this story in the WSJ and had what I will now call an inappropriate "knee-jerk" reaction that the makers of one of the worst "foods" in the world, Coca Cola, was spreading their evil.    Then I thought more about it.

It is certainly true that sugar is addictive, and that many companies sell products that feed that addiction -- certainly Coca Cola is one of the largest.

Did I not say, at the very top of this page, that the second most important thing you could do to improve your health is quit eating sugar?

But my philosophical view of this is that it is the CONSUMER who is most responsible. After all, he doesn't have to drink Coke, and despite the billions spent on promotion and advertising, there are many who are strong enough to stay away from this terrible drink.

Yet, for a kid in Africa, or Asia, who has extremely poor diet -- some sugar may be a reasonable price to pay for some vitamins at the same time.

I'm willing to give Coca Cola the benefit of the doubt, and hope that they sell tons of their new vitamin drink to kids who badly need a very simple improvement in vitamin consumption.

What do you think?  Here is a quote from the WSJ article.  Click on the link for the entire article.

Both Coke and P&G are mindful of the suspicion and hostility created by Nestle SA's debacle with infant formula in developing countries and are moving cautiously with their fortified drinks. To succeed, the companies must win the support of nutrition and health experts. While the sugary drinks are packed with vitamins and minerals, they contain no actual juice, and the companies stress that they are intended as supplements.

"We're not marketing this as a one-stop shop for health," says Abby Rodgers, a vice president of Coke's Minute Maid unit who heads Coke's development effort. "We're not saying don't drink milk or juice. This augments a healthy diet."  [Source]