OF NO RETURN
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS...
"THE SEVENTH STAGE OF DISEASE"
 (You Don't Want to Go There!)
By Dr. Vivian Virginia Vetrano with Victoria BidWell

 

(Victoria's Note: In the rest of these teachings, Dr. Vetrano  takes you through 5 Seventh Stage diseases and gives you The Hygienic Edge for their reversal or arrest. It is important to understand that all dis-ease that is building in the body is progressing toward that Seventh Stage if Hygienic Care is not instituted. Please review our teachings: "Natural Hygiene's Basic Tenets," "The Sources of Toxemia," "The Descent into Disease," "Acute Versus Chronic Disease," and "The Seven Stages of Disease. These teachings are priceless. They will provide for you a true education in how to "GetWell & StayWell," based on "The Natural, Physiological Laws of Life." That is, they will give you the truth, and thus, make you more knowledgeable than about health education and preventing disease anyone of The Medical Mentality at Its Worst. Regardless of the examples used here, therefore, and for your own condition or the conditions of your friends and family, "The GetWell*StayWell Answer" is to institute strict Natural Hygiene Care and to do so immediately! Dr. Vetrano continues...)

What can you do if you find Hygiene later than you would have liked?

    You may already have emphysema or bronchiectasis. Are they or are they not "incurable"? Just how incurable these diseases are under rational, Hygienic Care, instead of under the false system of healing called "medicine," depends upon the amount of tissue and systemic damage done by the years of drugging and upon failure to remove The Energy Robbers and failure to provide The Energy Enhancers. THIS STATEMENT HOLDS TRUE FOR ALL WHO ARE DESCENDING INTO DISEASE, REGARDLESS OF ITS NAME.
  

     Even though there is much lung destruction in emphysema, for instance, the greatly improved function that results from a fast followed up with The 10 Energy Enhancers and especially a diet of live-foods makes the invalid feel completely well. For the first time in years, after a fast, The Emphysema Victim can walk up a few flights of stairs and up a little hill without being breathless. Nevertheless, the areas of destruction of lung tissue make it impossible for The Emphysemic to ever be a long distance runner or an athlete, again. But the lung capacity will have improved to such an extent, in most cases, that a long and almost normal life can be expected, providing strict Hygienic living is continued.

    Latter Stage, pathological conditions, such as emphysema and bronchiectasis, develop because of bronchial disease. Many factors are involved, causing the destruction of the lungs; but none of them would take place if there were not a chronic Inflammation of the lungs. Emphysema and bronchiectasis are end points of pathology that result from long-continued disease of the lungs, such as chronic bronchitis and bronchiolitis and sometimes bronchial asthma. The mucus which accumulates because of Inflammation of the lungs plugs up bronchi, and this blockage sometimes permits air to get into the tiny air sacs but prevents it from being exhaled. As the air accumulates in excess, the tiny air sacs become stretched out of shape. The elastic tissues lose their ability to return to their former size. The tension on the walls interferes with and impairs circulation. Consequently, the walls break down, leaving greatly enlarged air sacs, which have far less surface area for absorption of oxygen, causing a constant, distressing air hunger. Another feature is the destruction of the walls of the small bronchi or bronchioles from chronic bronchiolitis. Chronic coughing adds to the distention of the air sacs and bronchioles which results in more pathological conditions.

    When the bronchi are greatly distended, it is very difficult for Sufferers to cough up mucus. When they do manage to get some up, it is extremely fowl-smelling from the putrefaction which takes place because it is retained in the lungs so long. This "Pathological Point of Almost No Return" is often the hardest condition to overcome by Hygienic means, especially if the destruction is great. The catarrhal condition can be overcome, and less mucus will be produced. But because of the great dilatation of the large bronchi, there will always be some retention and putrefaction of secretions. Special lung exercises help some people expel the mucus. Medicines can do nothing for these Respiratory Sufferers. The unfortunate thing about these particular Respiratory Sufferers with bronchiectasis is that they are usually great overeaters. They can eat and eat and eat at meals and between meals; and they never seem to get enough, even though they are very thin. If they can be educated out of their excessive eating habits, they can make speedy and rapid gains under Hygienic Care. Their only hope lies in Natural Hygiene. Even if recovery with Hygiene is not complete, the condition of The Respiratory Sufferers improves greatly.

 

ARTHRITIS

     Virtually every American who is not following Natural Hygiene in  lifestyle practices experiences some arthritic symptoms of pain and swelling, stiffness, and immobility of the joints by the time he or she is 40-something and on, in age. Arthritis can go past Irritation and Inflammation, however, into that full-blown, unrelenting Pathological Point of No Return.

     Still, in general, rheumatoid arthritis is almost completely reversible up to the time the joint becomes completely ankylosed (when bone fuses to bone). A condition may be said to be "reversed" or a person may be said to be "well" when all pain, stiffness, swelling, heat, redness, and impaired function of immobility have subsided. That is, one is well when the Inflammation in a joint has subsided and when one can use the joint as easily as before he developed the disease. The disease can still be said to be "reversible" because all pathological deterioration has stopped and function returns to normal; but this does not mean that there is always a complete reversal of some of the destruction that has already taken place. Because of long-standing Toxemia and impaired circulation in The Arthritic Sufferer, some tissues will be damaged. Normal function will return with strict, Hygienic Care; but joints may creak and crunch when walking or exercising because of irreversible damage to the articular cartilage during the acute, inflammatory, arthritic struggle with toxins.
    When speaking of this type of "irreversibility," The Arthritic Sufferer usually understands that he will again be able to function normally. The small amount of  pathological and irreversible deterioration will not hinder him immensely. The damage is still irreversible, but it is so small that it does not impair normal function, and a good quality of life can still be enjoyed. The important factor is the degree of irreversibility. Will or will not The Health Seeker again be able to function normally?
    In arthritis, if bone has joined to bone, that is, if the joint has fused (ankylosed) and there is no movement, or very little movement left, this is considered "true irreversibility." Once the destruction of the articular cartilage within a joint is so great that bone touches bone and the disease continues until Mother Nature protects The Arthritic from pain by joining two bones together so there will be no more Irritation, then all hope of reversibility can end. The Pathological Point of No Return has been reached. The two bones have united by bony fusion, and the joint is now forever stiff. (NOTE: We do not rule out God's healing miracles: here we are presenting science and what to expect from actual case histories.) As long as there is movement in the joint, regardless of how much pain endured, there is hope. A soft, cartilaginous material is formed first; and by fasting at this time, much of the calcium that has not yet been turned into bone will be removed. The muscular weakness which accompanies arthritis subsides, and strength returns. The increased movement that the faster sees, day by day, is a strong, encouraging factor, but not any less so than the subsidence of all pain!

    Extreme stiffness of a joint may not always mean that ankylosis has occurred. As long as the joint has not been obliterated or turned into fused bone, even if The Arthritis Sufferer is stiff and in pain, there is still a chance of full recovery. The pathology is still in a more or less reversible state, and almost normal movement returns. That's the miracle of judicious, scientific fasting -- The Correct Natural Hygiene Fast! To hope to achieve complete mobility when the pathology is advanced and there is much stiffness and pain may require as many as three to four long fasts over a period of years with very strict, Hygienic living between the fasts.