The term “protein” is used to designate a structure created from chained
amino acids. We tend to use this word in general when defining the needs of
the body, but is important to understand that your body is not designed to use
and metabolize “structures.” Since your body is designed to use only the
simplest of compounds and bio-available elements, it must break down
(digest) these “structures” into the elements that comprise them, and then use
these simpler compounds for its own needs.
Proteins are made up of amino acids, which are made up of carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, lots of nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur and iron. As noted
above, your body cannot use a “protein” structure. Therefore, part of your
digestive process will break these structures down into their simplest form—
into amino acids, the basic building blocks or material that your body uses to
build its own protein structures. Amino acids are used to make repairs, to
create new structures, to enhance immune response, to act as transporters and
to serve a multitude of other purposes.
Digestive and metabolic By-Products of Protein
NUTRITIVE PRODUCTS
Amino acids = for building, repair, immunity, hormone production,
transport, etc.
Water
Carbohydrates = secondary response
Fatty acids = secondary response
TOXIC BY-PRODUCTS
Nitrogen compounds (nitrates, etc.)
Ammonia
Purines, pyrimidine, etc.
Uric acid, uratinim, etc.
Phosphoric acid
Sulfuric acid
Glucogenic acids
Ketogenic acids
Carbon dioxide
PROTEIN DIGESTION
IN THE STOMACH VIA GASTRIC JUICES —
HCL (hydrochloric acid) causes the conversion of pepsinogens to pepsin,
which breaks down complex protein structures to proteoses and peptones.
IN THE PANCREAS — Pancreatic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin
convert peptones to polypeptides.
IN THE INTESTINES — Intestinal enzyme peptidase converts peptones,
polypeptides and dipeptides into amino acids.
“Protein” is a
word meaning a “structure.” Like a house, it’s already built. It has form to it,
like muscle tissue. However, like a house, it is built from various types of
building materials. Protein structures are built from building materials called
amino acids. Amino acids therefore are the building materials that your body
requires and uses for building (growth), maintaining, and repairing itself. It
also uses proteins (amino acids) for immune factors, transporters, and catabolic
factors. A protein is also a general word for the total nitrogenous
substances of animal or vegetable matter, exclusive of the so-called
nitrogenous fats.
Proteins, or the total nitrogenous (nitrogen-based) substance of a food,
consist of a variety of chemical compounds of two main types: proteids and
non-proteids. Examples of proteids, both simple and complex, are
albuminoids, globulins, proteases, peptones, glutinoids, etc. Examples of
non-proteids, or simple compounds, would include creatine, creatinine,
xanthine, hy-poxanthine, amides and amino acids.
The human body requires numerous amino acids, and these are divided
into two groups. First, are the essential amino acids, of which there are
eleven. These are said to be mandatory for proper growth and repair.
(Personally I do not agree with this conclusion as I have seen people with
extreme cases of neurological weakness, repair and rebuild themselves solely
on fruits.) Secondly, there are many nonessential amino acids the body also
uses. The list at the right will show you both groups.
Protein structures also include carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus,
sulfur and iron. As you can see, then, the word “protein” is actually an
arbitrary word giving a “structure” to building materials. Protein is actually an
arbitrary word that is assigned to any building material that the body needs.
However, its factual definition is that of a completed structure, like tissue
itself.
Amino Acids
ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS (PROVIDED BY FOOD)
Cysteine
Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
Methionine
Phenylalanine
Threonine
Tryptophan
Tyrosine
Valine
NON-ESSENTIAL AMINO ACIDS (PROVIDED BY THE BODY)
Alanine
Arginine
Aspartic acid
Citrulline
Glutamic acid
Glycine
Hydroxproline
Hydroxyglutamic acid
Norleucine
Proline
Serine
CAN WE USE THE PROTEIN?
Digestion is necessary because the body can only use simple amino acids—
the kinds that are found abundantly in vegetables and nuts. The liver can also
produce its own amino acids and can synthesize even smaller nitrogencontaining
compounds. The proteins found in meat must be broken down
(hydrolyzed) into simple amino acids before the body can truly use them. I
call meat “second-hand protein” because of the extensive digestion process
needed to break down the “building” into simple “building blocks” or amino
acids. Fruits, vegetables and nuts are much simpler for the body to break
down, as these are basic amino-acid structures. It has been proven that a
vegetable diet supplies more available nitrogen than a meat diet.
It is important to understand that nutrients act differently in an anionic
(acid) environment versus a cationic (alkaline) environment. Amino acids
become free agents for growth, maintenance and repair in an alkaline or
cationic environment. In an anionic (acidic) environment they tend to bind
with minerals, metals and fats, causing further toxic conditions in the body.
This creates a loss of available amino acids, starving your body for building
materials. You can eat all the proteins you want; however, your body cannot
rebuild itself properly without proper bio-availability of amino acids.
“Bulk” type muscles, put on by high protein diets, will be lost during
detoxification, as these are “stacked” amino acids not necessary to normal
body functions. When protein breaks down, it creates sulfuric and
phosphoric acids, which are highly toxic and damaging to tissue. It burns up
our electrolytes to convert these acids into salts (ionization), thus neutralizing
their damaging effects. Carbohydrates and fats create lactic and acetic acids,
which require the same process, but are not as damaging. This is why we
must replenish our electrolytes daily. The ionization and alkalization process
is vital if you wish to save your kidneys, liver and other tissues in your body.
Those who deplete their electrolytes without replenishing them fall into heavy
aci-dosis, which can cause convulsions, coma and death. Cancer and other
highly acidic conditions of the body use sodium and other alkalizing
electrolytes at a very fast pace. This is just another reason to consume as
many raw alkaline fruits and vegetables as possible.
Foreign proteins from meats, dairy products, grains, eggs, and the like,
are abrasive to the mucosa of the body. This causes a lymphatic (mucous)
response that can cause excessive mucus to build up within the tissues and
cavities of the body. This mucus build-up, with the trapped proteins, fills
interstitial areas as well as lymph nodes, sinus cavities, brain, lungs, etc.
Pimples, boils and tumors are expressions of this congestion or toxic buildup.
Some of the final digestive stages of protein-matter result in the
production of uric acid. Uric acid is abrasive and irritating, which inflames
and damages tissues. Uric acid deposits can create arthritis in the joints and
muscle tissue. Uric acid causes gout. The more flesh protein you put into
your body the more you work your immune system, and the more you invite
the parasitic “kingdom” to grow inside of you. Many parasites (including
many viruses, bacteria, and some “big boys” such as worms and flukes) feed
on wastes from flesh-protein digestion.
Eating meat causes body odor from the rotting (putrefying) flesh within
us. Meat can become impacted on the intestinal walls causing our mucosa and
intestinal lining to decay along with the meat. It is important to note that
putrefaction changes proteins into toxic chemical by-products. Fruits and
vegetables, on the other hand, do not cause body odor.
Proteins are acid-forming, which can create inflammation and can cause
tissue breakdown —the opposite reason to why we are supposed to eat them.
I’m not saying to avoid proteins— just to be warned about quantities and
certain types. Diets rich in nuts, vegetables and fruits yield a very strong and
healthy body, supplying plenty of amino acids.
The body cannot use “flesh-type proteins” (grouped amino acids) until it
breaks them down into simple amino acids first. This process starts in the
stomach where gastric juices of HCL (hydrochloric acid) convert pepsinogen
into pepsin. Pepsin starts to break down these protein structures into
peptones/polypeptides. This is an acidic process. After the stomach moves
this “pre-digested” process into the duodenum (small bowel), the proteolytic
enzymes in the pancreas (which are alkaline) start changing the polypeptides
into peptides. Finally, as these peptides are moving along the small intestines,
your intestinal wall secretes enzymes (peptidase), which finally convert these
peptides/peptones into amino acids. This extensive process robs the body of
vital energy, only to achieve “secondhand” building materials.
Plant proteins are simple structures of amino acids which are
considerably less energy-robbing. Plants, being full of electromagnetic
energy, counter-balance this energy need. Meat protein, on the other hand, is
much more structured and electrically dead. This requires a much more
radical digestive process, which robs the body of vital energy. Because of the
high acidic content, too much meat protein has also been linked to colon
cancer, the second largest type of cancer in America today. Thousands of
people die each year from the accumulated effects of eating high protein
diets. The liver, pancreas, kidneys and intestines are destroyed when protein
consumption is too high. Twenty to forty grams of protein a day is plenty,
but most people eat 150-200 grams a day.
THE ENERGY OF MEAT
It has been said that meat gives you energy. Since this energy is mostly from
the adrenaline found in its tissues, this is only a stimulated energy, not a
dynamic energy. If you’ve ever visited a slaughterhouse you will see and
sense the fear that these poor creatures experience just before they are killed.
Physiologically, this fear pumps the medulla of their adrenal glands,
producing epinephrine or what’s commonly called “adrenaline.” Epinephrine
is a neurotransmitter, stimulating energy through the nervous system into the
tissues of the body. This is mostly what gives protein-eaters a heightened
sense of energy. However, after years of eating meat full of adrenaline, your
adrenal glands become weakened and lazy at producing their own
neurotransmitters. This begins to lower your blood pressure. (A systolic
blood pressure of less than 118 is low.) As we begin to pass our adrenal
weaknesses down genetically, future generations may see multiple sclerosis,
Parkinson’s, Addison’s Disease, and other neurological weaknesses develop
from a chronic lack of neurotransmitters.
High blood pressure can also be a result of adrenal gland weakness.
When the adrenal glands become weak, we also begin to fail at producing
adequate steroids (our anti-inflam-matories), because meat is highly acidforming
(which creates inflammation). The body will use cholesterol in place
of steroids where this inflammation is present. This becomes a serious
problem because lipids, in the presence of aci-dosis, stick together and plaque
themselves “in” and “onto” tissues.
Energy from eating meat can also come from growth hormones fed to the
cattle (or other animals) for rapid growth. Energy should be dynamic or
cellular, not created by stimulants. Dynamic energy comes from raw-food
eating where alkalization, proper electrolytes, electricity, amino acids, proper
synergistic compounds and complexes (vitamins, minerals, flavons, etc.) are
found.
A CALL TO ACTION
It is time for humans to stop the toxic consumption of animal products, which
today are so laden with toxic hormones, antibiotics, chemicals and the like,
that they have become time bombs just ticking away inside of us. We can lift
ourselves up from decay and toxicity and enjoy the vitality and internal
cleanliness that a raw fruit-and-vegetable diet will bring. Such a diet breaks
the chains of anger and despair, freeing us into the light of vibrancy and
health.
Try a six-week diet free of animal products and see the difference for
yourself. It’s one thing to read and form opinions from conditioned thought.
However, it’s quite another to experience it directly for yourself.
All life transmutes compounds and elements into other compounds or
elements, although this process is not well understood by the scientific
community, as of yet. Your body can and does create amino acids from
carbohydrates and fats. Your body uses the constituents in your foods,
especially those biologically suited for you, to maintain and repair itself
Nature will always have mysteries for us to seek. The mind, which is
forever over-reacting, can keep the soul’s attention here in the physical world
indefinitely. The mind is like the seeker after God, forever looking for truth
when it is always right in front of him. The mind (intellec-tualism) always
likes to tear things apart to try to understand how they are made. Soul already
knows how things are made. Break free from in-tellectualism and enjoy the
simplicity of nature and God. It will free you from a lot of wasted energy.
Become a raw-food, living-food eater and enjoy vitality and robust health.
You will be much happier for it
HIGH PROTEIN DIETS CAN CAUSE DEATH
Research studies done by some of the world’s top educational institutions
(including Simmons College and Harvard University, as reported in The New
England Journal of Medicine and The Archives of Internal Medicine) have
proven, over and over again, that meat protein is toxic to us when it is
absorbed through our intestinal walls. This creates acidosis, affects an
immune response and invites parasites. The following list will summarize
what we have considered in the previous sections about the basic reasons to
avoid meat and high protein diets.
- A protein structure is not useable by the body as such, and must be
broken down into its simplest compounds, called amino acids before the
body can use it at all. This process requires energy instead of yielding
energy.
- Many acids are created during the digestion and metabolizing of proteins,
including uric acid (which causes gout), phosphoric acid, and sulfuric
acid. These acids are irritating and inflammatory to tissues. They also
stimulate nerve responses leading to hyperactivity of tissues.
- Protein is a nitrogen compound, high in phosphorous, which when
consumed in large amounts, will deplete calcium and other electrolytes
from the body.
- Proteins are highly acid-forming, lowering the pH balance of the body.
This causes inflammation and tissue weakness, leading to tissue death.
- Proteins are not used as fuel by the body; they are building blocks and
carriers. When proteins are broken down by digestion into amino acids,
their main function becomes growth and repair of tissue. Simple sugars
are the main fuels for the body besides oxygen. When we try to lose
weight by burning proteins for fuel, this causes fat breakdown. However,
it also causes tissue breakdown. You can destroy liver, pancreatic and
kidney tissues by burning your building blocks instead of using proper
fuels
- In people who have adrenal weakness, a high protein diet causes the liver
to create large amounts of cholesterol, which then begins to plaque
throughout the body, especially through the vascular system, liver and
kidneys. Stone formation also begins to take place in the liver and
gallbladder.
- Animal proteins putrefy in the body causing body odor. This
putrefaction causes a cesspool of toxins to build up in the intestines and
the tissues of the body, both interstitially and in-tracellularly This not
only creates a base for parasites to grow, but the acidity creates
inflammation, which blocks cellular respiration, eventually causing
cellular death.
- High protein consumption does not fit our species, nor is it
physiologically sound.
- Animal farming, as a food source, has devastated us economically,
environmentally and spiritually. We are destroying our forests and green
land to create pastures. This is destroying our planet in many ways. It
affects the production of vital oxygen, diminishes heat protection,
destroys beauty, limits erosion protection, limits our fruit and vegetable
farming, increases toxic by-products of animals, robs topsoil and oxygen
levels from grain farming, and destroys wild animal habitats. We waste
thousands of acres in raising tons of grain needed to feed cattle and other
animals.
- High protein diets contain excessive amounts of epinephrine (adrenaline)
and thereby create aggression, anger and adrenal failure in humans who
consume these foods.
- Meat has been proven to cause intestinal cancer. It is suspected in liver
and pancreatic cancers, as well. The cesspool of putrefaction that builds
up in the lymphatic system is possibly the starting cause of lymphomas.
- Meat-eating societies have a much shorter life span. An example of this is
the Intuits of Northern Canada and Alaska whose average life span is
approximately fifty years.
Meat is nothing more than dead or dying cells, living in their own
cesspool of stagnant, putrefying blood. And humans call this good
nutrition.Meat stimulates, irritates and inflames the sexual organs, especially the
prostate gland, leading to prostatitis.
- Today’s animal meat is full of growth hormones, antibiotics, pesticides,
herbicides, nuclear wastes, high levels of adrenaline, and other toxic
chemicals from air and ground pollution. All of these compounds are
considered carcinogenic. We find more cancer in cows, pigs and
chickens today than ever before. And humans eat this. Some meat
producers (farmers and ranchers) have also lost their integrity and sense
of decency, and are grinding up their sick and dying cows, pigs and
chickens and mixing this “dead,” often “diseased,” meat into their regular
animal feed. This leads to “Mad Cow” and “Hoof and Mouth” disease.
We see this now, especially in Europe, where meat growers have been
feeding dead sheep meat to living cows. Cows are vegetarians. Hogs are
not true meat eaters, either. This eventually leads to acidosis and disease
within these animals, just as it does within humans.
- High protein diets lower manganese levels resulting in spasms,
convulsions, neurotransmitter issues (myasthenia, S.O.B., heart
arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, etc.), neuromuscular problems,
Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
- Meat is full of dead blood cells (hemoglobin), which are full of iron.
However, iron is a mineral, which if consumed in abundance can become
toxic, especially oxidized iron (not plant iron). Iron toxicity creates a
multitude of reactions within the body, including:
- Decrease in chromium (needed in insulin transport issues)
- Decrease in zinc (needed in insulin and energy production)
- Damage to liver, pancreatic and kidney tissue
- Lowering of calcium and calcium absorption and utilization
Increase in sodium levels (hence creating edema)
- Increase in nitrogen and phosphorous levels (thus increasing acidosis)
- Dizziness, equilibrium and spastic conditions by decreasing manganese
levels
- Meat eating leads to high blood pressure from sodium retention and lipid
coagulation.
- Meat eating with vitamin C supplementation enhances iron absorption,
thereby magnifying iron toxicity
- Red meat eating is linked to the increase of N-Nitroso compounds from
intestinal bacteria, which can be cancer-causing to the intestinal walls.
- Meat eating is known to be one of the chief and most direct causes of
tooth decay.
- These are just a few examples of why high animal-protein diets are
destroying the human race. Wake up and enjoy life without animal
products. Your body will love you for it, as it becomes odor-free and
vibrant. Love your planet and its animals too.
COMPLETE PROTEIN OR COMPLETE MYTH?
There is a myth about the need for “complete” amino acids or “complete
proteins” in the human diet. We have struggled with this misinformation for
years. Basically, the misinformation says that unless you eat foods containing
all the essential amino acids in one meal you will not have what you need to
create a “complete protein” and therefore your body will be protein deficient.
This is one of the primary arguments for the consumption of meat and dairy
products, or the consumption of soy products, beans, and white flour.
Consider, however:
- What is the diet of a wild horse, an elephant, or a cow? These are
herbivores and their strength is well known. Their diet is 100 percent
grass and vegetable matter. If they needed the “complete protein” that is
claimed, they must be getting it from plants.
- 70 to 80 percent of a grizzly bear’s diet is grass. Bears don’t eat much
meat. When they do, it’s generally the fat (not the protein) structure that
they’re after. Bears are omnivores.
- We are the highest species in the frugivore category, which is not
designed to eat meat.
- Raw foodists who eat a balanced variety of fruits, vegetables and nuts are
never deficient in the amino acids necessary for health. Quite the
opposite. Plant amino acids are more energetic and easy for your body to
break down and use. Meat requires a more radical and energy-robbing
digestive process to obtain the amino acids that comprise it. The other
important factor here is that meat protein leaves an acid reaction in the
body, creating more acidosis, whereas vegetables leave an alkaline
reaction, thus cutting acidosis.
Your body requires live foods to make it alive. If the components are not
in fresh, organic fruits, nuts and vegetables you don’t need them! And
besides, there’s nothing healthy about eating old, rotten, dead tissue—dead
cells in stagnant blood
