I want to Know Everything I am Supposed to Have Each Day.
You’re going to have to get a psychic, not me. What we do at Hippocrates is legitimate work. I refuse to pretend I know what you need because I don’t know you. When guests come to us, the medical team looks at blood tests and records you bring. They talk to you, see what state of mind you are in, and then the team determines what would be best for you to be eating and which supplements would be best for you at that particular time.
We don’t stop there because who you are in February of 2008 is not who you will be in June 2008, 2009 or 2020. When our guests graduate from Hippocrates, we counsel them for free for the rest of their lives.
Today, I spent four hours in my office answering letters from alumni all over the world. One came to us 20 years ago. Others came five years, eight years, or one month ago. Depending on the disorder you are facing, we obviously may have to be in touch with you more often. The good news is that as you heal yourself and become stronger and healthier, we still want to communicate with you at least once a year.
You have to determine what each person really needs. There is no one general rule out there. In my books I write about the general ideology, but I can’t tell you that one thing is what every person needs. Everyone needs supplements.
The fact of the matter is with that everyone we test, long-term research shows that at times even the healthy members of the group, including me, lack some nutrient. Those who say that if you eat all raw, whole foods, you get everything, are wrong. It’s that simple. I would like to challenge some of the so-called leaders who say this. I will pay for the blood tests and show you what those blood tests say.
If I have been eating this way for 30 years and occasionally I have an absence of nutrients, what are the odds that other people need supplementation as well?
The fact of the matter is that stress is the key factor for lack of nutrients today. It’s not eating the food, but how we burn it out of ourselves. Any of you listening today that say you have absolutely no stress, just compare yourself to people 50 or 100 years ago. Wake up and be realistic. They didn’t have televisions or iPods or the internet. They didn’t have any of these devices we have today. They didn’t know what was going on next door, never mind around the world. All of these things have placed an enormous amount of pressure on us because we as a species never had to deal with that absolutely monolithic way of using the brain. Maybe 100 or 1,000 years from now, if we survive our own stupidities, we’ll have that capacity. But today we don’t.
What we are not capable of dealing with creates stress. Stress is the number-one way to burn nutrients out of the body. I will just challenge you by saying the average person today needs dozens and dozens more nutrients then they would have 100 years ago because of that stress factor.