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Prof. Spira on Steve Jobs, Ashton Kutcher, Arnold Ehret, Radical Raw Fruit Diets, and the Transition
For some reason, people continue to misinterpret Arnold Ehret’s message. Although he emphasizes a transition diet which progressively moves toward mucus-free menus, people frame Ehret as the ‘fruit diet’ guy who recommends indiscriminate long fruit fasts. This is not true. Ehret urges people to use great caution while moving toward the fruit level, as it is the most powerful food and aggressive detoxifier.
People also frame Ehret as someone who recommends radical fasting cures. This is also not true. Ehret said that he does not endorse long fasts for most patients. Further, the genius of ‘Rational Fasting’ and the ‘Regeneration Diet’ is that short-term, intermittent fasting is used systematically with a mucus-free diet to gain safe and effective results.
Recently, Ehret has been getting some bad press with the death of Steve Jobs and hospitalization of Ashton Kutcher who, in an attempt at some misguided method acting, ate a radical fruit diet for his portrayal of Jobs in an upcoming movie. Let it be clear, Ehret would not have advocated a long-term fruit period, especially without a systematic transition and a clearing out of the intestines through natural laxatives and/or colon irrigation.
Here is what Ehret has to say:
Fasting When Used in Connection With the Mucusless Diet Healing System
As I have stated before, I am no longer in favor of long fasts. In fact it may become criminal to let a patient fast for 30 or 40 days on water—contracting the avenues of circulation, which are continually filled up more and more with mucus and by dangerous old drugs and poisons, and at the same time rotten blood from his old “stock;” in fact actually starving form necessary vital food elements . No one can stand a fast of that kind without disadvantage or without harming his vitality.
If fasting is to be used at all, then start at first with the non-breakfast plan; then follow with the 24-hour fast for a while; then gradually increase up to 3, 4 or 5-day fasts, eating between fasts for 1, 2, 3 or 4 days a mucusless diet, combined individually as an elimination adjustment, and at the same time supplying and rebuilding the body continually with and by the best elements contained in and found only in mucusless foods.
Thru such an intermittent fast the blood is gradually improved, regenerated, can more easily stand the poisons and waste, and is able at the same time to dissolve and eliminate “disease deposits” from the deepest tissues of the body; deposits that no doctor ever dreamed existed, and that no other method of healing has ever discovered or can ever remove.[Spira160]
This, then, is the Mucusless Diet Healing System, with fasting an essential part of it. (Mucusless Diet Healing System).
Regarding fruit diet, he adds
To the average layman raw food reacts more or less mysteriously—as long as it is mixed with your own mucus—as long as it stirs up mucus and its toxemias in the unclean diseased body and eliminates these poisons. All laymen and experts covering the entire dietetical movement up to the present time, are puzzled, confused, ignorant and still in complete darkness of the fact that in general the average man first becomes worse, sometimes developing boils and all kinds of sores—starts what he believes is a correct and best diet—living on a radical fruit, mucusless or raw-food diet.
You have learned that even the best foods which have the highest, most vigorous healing properties can become harmful, even dangerous in the beginning, if not carefully used; that they become mixed with the filthy mucus and poisons which they loosen up in the body, and thereby become poisoned, entering the blood stream in this poisoned condition.
And as for the transition
Everything is perfectly performed by Nature thru evolutional, progressive changes, developments and accomplishments and not by catastrophies. Nothing is more incorrect than the mistaken idea that a decades old chronic disease can be healed thru a very long fast, or a radically extended strict fruit diet. “Nature’s mills grind slow but sure.”
My experience of over twenty years, covering for the most part the extremely severe cases of all kinds of diseases, has proven that a carefully selected and progressively changed TRANSITION DIET is the best and surest way for every patient to start a cure, especially for the average mixed eater. As long as wrong foods (foods of civilization are partly used, I call it a MUCUS-LEAN DIET. Transition means the slow change from disease-producing foods to disease-healing foods, which latter I call the MUCUSLESS DIET.
The speed of elimination depends upon quantities and qualities of food and can therefore be controlled and regulated according to the condition of the patient.
. . . The reason doctors and even Naturopaths in general, as well as the layman, do not believe in a FRUIT diet or MUCUSLESS diet, is simply this: Whoever experiments without experience with this diet of healing, whether sick or well, loses his faith immediately, as soon as he has a crisis, becomes what he believes to be “seriously ill,” that is to say, a day on which a great amount of dissolved waste, debris, mucus and other poisons are taken back into the circulation, a day of great elimination. This produces at the same time a strong, almost irresistible craving for wrong foods and, strange as it may seem, the patient most strongly craves for the wrong food which was once his favorite. This is explained by the fact that Nature is eliminating thru the circulation the waste of these foods, and it is when they are in the circulation the craving and desire is naturally enough produced. (Mucusless Diet Healing System).
Ehret did not suggest radical fasting cures, strict raw-food regimens, or long periods of fruit dieting for people who have toxic bodies and without a systematic change over a necessary period of time. What separates Ehret from other vegan, raw-food, or fruit fasting gurus is his sophisticated yet simple transitional system. The principles of this system can be applied to accomplish short-term and long-term goals. From my observation and experience, the transition is the key to healing and sustaining higher levels of plant-based living for decades.
I have heard mixed things about the nature of Steve Jobs’ diet. Some reports suggest that he experimented with radical fasting cures with little transition after reading Ehret’s works and became very frail and sickly. Others say that his mostly vegan lifestyle is what allowed him to live as long as he did before bending to the whims of the medical authorities.
Regardless, fruit was not the cause of Jobs’ issues. From what I see, a longer and deeper transition was necessary. The same is true for Kutcher, who presumably went from a Standard American Diet to fruit fasting with no mucus-free transitional periods or colon irrigation. Doing so is a prescription for ending up in the emergency room.
Transition, Transition, Transition! It is all about the transition. Learn to do so properly, and you can achieve remarkable things in the realm of mucus-free plant-based living and healing.
Peace, Love, and Breath!
-Prof. Spira
Author of “Spira Speaks: Dialogs and Essays about the Mucusless Diet Healing System.”
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jobs went back to eating fish “flesh” and probably other things that ehret warned us about, two or three days fast are better in tranistion, i agree, after a period when your body chmesitry changes then you can go on longer fasts,i fasted 51 days once and had no problem because my body could handle it, as a follower of yeshua (jesus) i am not a so-called christian most are filthy murdering meat eaters i fast to keep gods true temple (our bodies) clean 1COR 6:19 1COR3:17 2COR 7:1 GENESIS 1:29 AND THE “ESSENE GOSPEL OF PEACE” GOD BLESS!
The Ehret plan saved my life almost 40 years ago. I was in failing health at 20 yrs. plagued with cystic acne and chronic sinus trouble and getting asthmatic. I did the transition, fruit fasted, then juice fasted. I would agree most people should probably stick to short fasts though.
There are some real-life issues that collide with the pure form of the diet. Working as a substitute teacher and catching colds all the time my immune function got weak. My doctor convinced me to add an occasional (free-range) egg and it helped stabilize me. Also living on raw food through the winter might not be advisable, cooling the body then is a risk (the Taoists have some wisdom on this matter, look up “digestive fire”). But the general criticism of eating too much protein, decaying foods, and the modern plague of over-refined flours and excessive dairy is profound. Most Americans are making themselves sick through their diets.
Thank you for sharing your story Mark! I certainly advocate mixing raw foods with cooked mucus-free items when needed. I’d be interested to know if eating some kind of vegan product might also ‘stabilize’ you when the going gets rough, or as we would say slow down your elimination.
Hello,
i still dont understand does Steave Jobs starts a mucusless diet before or after he got cancer ?
thanks
From what I read, he was diagnosed earlier in his life. Some say that it was his interested in natural healing that allowed him to live as long as he did, and that in the end he succumbed the destructive methods of the medical establishment. I can’t say with certainty, but from what I heard, he just never really understood the importance of the transition diet. Peace, Love, and Breath!
Thanks for this. Great to see others also recommending a transitional period. Way too many people want to run the marathon (go 100% raw) NOW when they haven’t even ran 10km! They need to build up.
What are your top 3 food choices for cooked, mucussless foods for someone in transition?
Greetings Ted! My top three favorite mucusless foods for the transition are probably steamed collard greens, steamed broccoli, and probably zucchini. For something a bit heavier, but that still eliminates fairly well, I will go with cooked peas. Peace, Love, and Breath!
Dear Prof Spira,
Firstly congratulations on your music accomplishments.
I would love to skype with you being that i reside in AUSTRALIA .Would that be possible ?
Theres alot i can chat to you about…
Bye
Kosta ….
Peace Prof Spira, I’m just starting the transition diet – I was a vegetarian during my 20-40’s but went back to meat eating. Now I want to clense and get healthy I’m 64 and have pre-diabetes – I havent done the enema yet – Could I get a colonic every season instead – or is the daily enema critical to my transition. Your yutube posts are so helpful!
Thanks, Marie
Arnold Ehret strongly recommends enemas before, after, and during fasting sessions or periods of mucus-free eating. Although, he also mentions that you could be done regularly to clear out the colon. Doing colonics can be beneficial, but I personally do not compare them to regular lemon enemas. The key to the lemon enemas is the astringent nature of the juice along with consistency. Most people have a lot of hardened waste encrusted in their GI tract, and the lemon juice, along with mucus-free diet, can loosen and bring this out over time. Peace, Love, and Breath!
Dear Spiral,
I restored my health from eczema, I suffered a lot for 10 years without any improvement with medicines, by a radical change to fruit diet without knowing the transition and Ehret at that time. After that I suffered a lot from asthma that led me again to rely on medicines. I am now relieved from the asthma and the dependency of medicines, only after the exposure of Arnold Ehret’ Mucusless Diet Healing System, since 2012. The importance of transitional diet, that I have learned from Ehret’s MDHS, is extremely useful to recover my health. Now I am in the way of Ehret to the fruit diet.
Thank you for sharing your testimony Sukumar!
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I had the great fortune of being treated to over a week of Raw food prepared for me personally under the direction of Ronnie and Minh, (The Art of Living Food). This was after generally a couple years of natural vegetarian eating without cheese or any “substitute” products that mimic other unhealthy things. My comment is that I experienced what I call a “Freedom from the Tyranny of Food” that week for possibly the first time in my life as every unconscious craving seemed to just disappeared. I am not attempting to promote the experience- I don’t know that it would happen for everyone, but for me it had quite a lasting effect. I was not committed to continuing the lifestyle, although I have enjoyed 80/10/10 diet, and currently eat mostly Paleo… that’s somewhat the opposite of Essene… it still strikes me as the most amazing thing to understand how even with a supposedly healthy Vegetarian diet( and healthier than most) I was still obviously under-nourished and just not “satisfied.” The change in mental chemistry and overall well being gave me a sincere appreciation of Essene living, and I have to admit the recipes I had were gourmet delights. This has inspired other changes in my life. I completely understand how messing with the diet without proper care can lead to adverse health effects, and I have experienced that “healing crisis” as many others have when radically flushing toxins from their body. “Nature’s Gentle Mill…” seems like a great take-away here. Very sensible.
Hey Brother Spira, thanks for everything you are doing. my question to you is this, based on the books I have Rational fasting and Mucusless Diet Healing System, when transitioning from a mixed animal diet to a mucusless diet, should we only eat 1 protein at each meal and try not to mix proteins with starches, such as breads with meat, or potaoes with meat or bread?
Thanks Joe
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Hi Prof Spira….having come across The Mucusless Diet book a few months ago I decided since mid February to transition as recommended in the book. I had years ago given up all grains and it has not been difficult for me to give up meat, fish, chicken and eggs and almost all dairy .I still enjoy eating nuts but now with dried fruit. I find it difficult to give up avos and olive oil which I use when baking or roasting sweet potato ,butternut and other vegetables. I am 76 years old and unfortunately have suffered from hypertension for about the last 35 years which seems to run in our family and am of course on BP medication. I also suffer from unexplained fatigue which seems to hit me at some point most afternoons.My question to you is if I adhere rigidly to transitioning would I eventually overcome my BP problem and regain my energy?? Stanley