Oils & Fats - Misuse of fats and breakdowns in pathways (& B6)
The partner to water is oils and fats. Some fats heal and others kill - certain fats are vital for health. Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) are necessary for healthy cells - both structure and function - and for all the hormone like messengers that control the body's well being. EFAs cannot be made by the body yet are as essential to us as vitamins and minerals. Both Omegas 3 and 6 are needed in balance yet omega 3 oils are sadly missing. For example, most vegetable oils, especially olive oil, have Omega 6 but very little Omega 3. Seeds (especially linseeds) and also flaxseed oil (made from linseeds) and fish oil are both particularly rich in Omega 3. Although we need very little Omega 3 oil, we do not get even that small amount.
Exposure to light and heat destroys Omega 3s, in particular, very quickly. Good fats require care. All modern diets contain damaged fats. Since WWII people have been eating more rubbish fats. They have been encouraged to eat margarine. They will have been taking in a lot of trans fatty acids, lots of heated fats, alongside the saturated fats. The antidote to this, and an essential supplement to taking in the water, is to take in Essential Fatty Acids. Most people have none of these at all in their diet! The EFAs are particularly indicated in cases of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), AIDS and CFS/ME.
It is not sufficient simply to take out the saturated and damaged killer fats by saying 'Don't eat meat, margarine and fried foods'. It is most important to replace them with the Essential Fatty Acids. The richest source of Omega 3 is hemp, but I can hardly imagine, at this time, that any firm will manufacture a hemp margarine. The main source that I use is the second best one, linseeds (flaxseeds). I use whole linseeds or even sprouted linseeds and (if the body temperature is close to normal) linseed/flaxseed oil. I think that fish is not a good source of EFAs for reasons of pollution and because many of my patients do not want to use animal products. If I do use fish as a source of the EFAs, I use a marine lipid, EPA (fish oils), which is a concentration of the entire fish and often initially more easily assimilable than flaxseed oil where there is low body temperature. Fish liver products will contain the toxins within the liver so cod liver oil is not recommended.
There is a little book by Johanna Budwig, called "Flax Oil as a True Aid against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases" which I suggest you read: it is only a small booklet but very informative and useful on the subject. You need to introduce a diet which is very low in saturated fats and high in Essential Fatty Acids. Olive oil is mono-saturated, and is the safe oil to heat, but is not actually among the EFAs (you may also wish to refer to "Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill" by Udo Erasmus).
The regular misuse of fats in western diets is highly significant. In motor-neuron's disease and MS (multiple sclerosis) it is commonly known that patients need the Essential Fatty Acids. These include evening primrose oil, marine lipids, linseed/flaxseed oil. Yet even when they take the EFAs nothing happens with any degree of permanency because sufferers have that degree of toxicity that will not allow them to utilize these oils.
There is a hormonal connection here - in CFS/ME for example there are stages where, while taking the Pill, or pregnant, women are fine. When they stop the Pill, or stop breastfeeding, they are in trouble again. The body needs to be able to use Essential Fatty Acids and B6 to produce prostaglandins, to be used with zinc to produce hormones. This chain, which has broken down, is also seen in CFS/ME, in schizophrenia, in anorexia and in bulimia. It is a chain breakdown that we will keep meeting in this therapy.
Again, remember that I am giving you only an outline here. Most things that we do make us dry: our bodies hence go on dehydration alert. Where does the message come from that the body feels dehydrated? It comes from the colon, the water reservoir of the body. If there is inadequate water in the colon, the body will withdraw water from the faeces, causing constipation. Alternating constipation and loose bowels (verging towards diarrhea) is a sign not only that the body is dehydrated but also that the liver does not have the necessary EFAs to maintain the correct balance of fluids. Diarrhea itself (almost pure water - not just loose stools) is the worst form of constipation.
On 'dehydration alert' the body produces cholesterol. You do need to be able to use the Essential Fatty Acids as part of the mechanism of breaking down the cholesterol: a 'catch 22' situation since it is only when you can stop the body being dehydrated that it will stop producing the cholesterol. In the body we have then the damaged fats and the saturated fats. We can do something about the diet. We can take out all the saturated fats and put the essential fats in. But we are still going to perpetuate the blocked situation if the body is very toxic, very dehydrated, and cannot use the Essential Fatty Acids. It is the inability to use the EFAs which gives rise to all the disease pictures associated with depression, alcoholism, schizophrenia, CFS/ME, etc.
Since the 1950s we have had major dehydration and resulting major cholesterol production, serious deprivation of EFAs and the introduction of transfatty acids - what a cocktail to completely wreck what the body needs. No wonder we have so much infertililty and everything else. The effect of all of this is to disrupt the body's ability to work with light and disrupt the advancement of human beings because, when we have this ability and are connected to the greater whole, we are not so easy to frighten and control.
Unless you do the preparatory work of taking the body off dehydration alert, you can see why taking EFAs, taking magnesium or zinc, is not going to do anything.
Many people will have difficulty in using the fats they take in anyway, even the EFAs initially. They will just pass through those who have lower than normal body temperatures. With this goes the difficulty using the fat-soluble vitamins. We have to continually guard against the common reaction which is to intellectually identify a shortage and then think that the solution is to put more 'substances' into the body. How can this possibly help if the body cannot break down and use those 'substances'?
The thickening of the cell membranes (walls) due to the excess cholesterol tends to happen initially in the liver, then in the kidneys, then it goes up to brain level. This is the level reached in CFS/ME, for instance. In order to be able to use magnesium and zinc, and potassium to some extent also, you have to be able to break down and utilize B6. The B6 has to be present and available at the same time. But, if you have lower than normal body temperature, you not only have a difficulty in dealing with the fats, you also will be unable to break down vitamin B6. This B6 block is highly significant in the effectiveness of the potassium/ sodium exchange across the cell membrane, the inherent release of toxicity, and the interaction between calcium/ magnesium.
Zinc is well known to be essential for many body functions, and I find that many people have taken high Zinc supplements without any sustained benefits. I suggest that this is because of their difficulty with fat handling and with B6 breakdown. The richest sources of Zinc in nature are to be found in seeds, exactly the same place where we find the richest source of EFAs. There is also the blood group link: blood group A will have difficulty with using their zinc and schizophrenia is most commonly found in blood group A. Zinc relates to the mental level problems we see manifesting in schizophrenia, as is well known, and I place anorexia and bulimia as mild forms of schizophrenia. There is a strong 'inner voice' in these conditions which is trying to control or to give direction.
Let's now think about what stops the liver breaking down the B6. The production of cholesterol in response to the dehydration alert happens particularly in the liver, kidneys, lungs and brain. Changes happen, particularly in the liver, which stop it being able to break down B6.
We are bringing in the connection between liver and head, between liver and brain, when we consider whether we can deal with fats and whether we can break down the B6 and use the Zinc. Zinc also has the function of being responsible for the condition of the skin, which includes the 'inner skin'. This means the cell membranes and inner mucosa, but also the colon and the meninges of the brain. Furthermore, it is also responsible for the two hemispheres of the brain working in conjunction (there are many implications here, involving dyslexia, creativity, etc).
There has been a lot of reporting of research about the EFAs and brain function which you may have heard of. In senility and with children, IQ has improved just with giving the EFAs. All fats problems are linked to the liver. In dyslexia, which is a liver/fats problem, the eyes do not plan, the brain does not plan. Planning to use the two brain hemispheres together is controlled by the liver. So liver/brain and liver/eyes have a strong connection.
We will now look at where the real breakdowns happen. This is a different approach from the intellectual one which tends to be followed by most people. In CFS/ME for example, the problem is seen as having to do with Magnesium deficiency. No attempt is made to consider why there is a deficiency, so patients are injected with Magnesium.
But Magnesium and Potassium require B6 in order to be utilized. So does zinc. In a set of circumstances that prevents you breaking down your B6, you cannot use your Magnesium, however much you inject or take in. This means you cannot do the night time Magnesium/Potassium "switch" successfully, nor take the toxicity out during the night part of the cycle. You cannot cleanse. So this is the point at which we must bring other measures in - the naturopathic techniques.
The factor that prevents utilization of B6 is the same as that which stops the utilization of EFAs. Again, the ability to utilize B6, EFAs, Magnesium and Zinc relies on one common factor. I think that this common factor is dehydration. The percentage hydrated is the percentage that is accessible. The percentage cut off is the percentage which is internalized mucus/ toxicity/ acidity.
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