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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine (approx. 460–370 BC)

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Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with a seed in it. They will be yours for food.

From the book of Genesis 1:29⁴

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Hence the human is, above all, a continued nutritional process … Perhaps one day a scientist will discover how to make significant people out of regular children just the way the bees convert a random grub to a queen only by giving them special food, which they know how to prepare.

Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize winner

Most of the foods we consume today are, from a genetic perspective, not meant to be eaten by humans. While they give us energy, they lead to illnesses after years or decades of malnutrition. Due to an unfitting diet, our intestine can even produce highly toxic substances that are even more harmful than environmental toxins. (Especially ammonia or ptomaines should be mentioned here.) An inappropriate diet, this includes many of the so-called healthy diets (I will explain later on in the book), is jointly responsible for almost 70 % of all diseases, including cancer and heart attack. The German Nutrition Society (DGE) commented on the “results of the nutritional report of the DGE in 2004” (1/18/2005): “Cardiovascular diseases with 47.3 % and malignant tumors with 25.1% continue to be the most common causes of death in Germany … Excluding all mortalities associated with smoking then the illnesses where nutrition is a contributory cause are responsible for more than two thirds of all causes of death. The causes of death related to a false diet and lifestyle can be reduced with a balanced nutrition and regular physical exercise.”

Research of the past years has proven that all chronic diseases, which also include the “widespread diseases”, are mainly caused by the following two factors:

• Malnutrition and lack of micronutrients

• Harmful factors (poisons, also included in foods, and artificial radiation; for further information see bibliography, no. 49)

A third complex of causes could be attributed to psychological factors that in turn contribute to a wrong choice of diet and reduced exercise and as a consequence to the propagation of widespread diseases.

The sickening effect of malnutrition is not due to “overeating” but rather to an insufficient supply of micronutrients. Micronutrients are not nutrients that contain an energy value (such as fat, protein, carbohydrates), but they are indispensable for a healthy life as well as for reproductive purposes.

These do not only include the known vitamins but also vitaminoids (e.g. co-enzyme Q1, Q10, carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid, taurine, glutathion), trace elements (such as molybdenum, chromium, selenium, manganese, iodide, zinc, boron, vanadium, lithium, germanium, strontium), living raw enzymes, thousands of vegetable molecules (often called secondary plant compounds), vital polyunsaturated cis-fatty acids, genetic material (RNA and DNA) and certain types of sugar (such as ribose), that do not contain an energy value (calories). The positive effect of micronutrients has partly been discovered and researched only recently (vegetable dyes, polyphenols, phenolic acids, salvestrols, oligomers, procyanides, microRNA). The influence of countless other substances contained in natural foods on humans is, up to this day, still unknown.

The malnutrition addressed here also significantly promotes the sickening effect of pollutants. The consequence: Our diet plays the biggest role in the occurrence of diseases – but also in curing such afflictions or vibrant health. This is what this book is about.