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This information is specifically regarding Phase I of your program. Phase I is the initial part of the program, where our main goal or objective is to eliminate most of the infection in the body. Whether it’s a virus, bacteria, yeast, fungus or a parasite, the goal of Phase I is to try and eliminate the overload of these organisms in your body and reduce the infection in your system.
The first phase of the program is a systemic phase. The word systemic means “system,” or we could refer to it as system-wide, and this is referring to the entire body. Systemic means we’re trying to handle the whole body. As far as the infection goes, we’re trying to eliminate most of the infection throughout most of the body.
The things that you’re taking on Phase I on your rotation are specific natural and herbal substances which have the ability to be absorbed throughout your blood, travel through your bloodstream and lymphatic system, and be able to kill or eliminate most of the infection throughout most of the body. On Phase I, we’re not only using things which only eliminate viruses, bacteria, or whatever, from specific parts of the body. We’re using things that will eliminate from most of the system.
Once you’re finished with Phase I, the following phases will ensure that you will not relapse and you will be able to retain a lot of the improvements that you’ll get from Phase I, and will also rebalance your system.
But, this information is about Phase I, so let’s talk specifically about this important first step. On Phase I, all of the items that you’re taking are rotated. By rotated we mean you’ll be switching from one to the next. You’re not taking all of these items on the same day, you’re taking each item by itself alone for four days. After that four-day period of taking that specific product you stop it, and then go to the next item written on your program sheet labeled with a #2. After four days of taking that product, you then stop and go to the product labeled #3. And after four days of taking that product, you then stop that and go to the product labeled #4. And you keep doing this until you’ve used all the products, whether there are four, five or six that you are rotating. After you’ve finished them all, you go back to the first one again.
We call this a rotation, and we call each one of these a rotated item, because you’re only taking it for four days and then switching to another one.
We expect each one of these items to produce some kind of a change in your body, or in how you feel, and the change is simply a change. We’re not necessarily expecting you to feel better throughout this entire phase, or when you start doing the phase, and we’re not exactly expecting you to feel worse either. We’re expecting some kind of change. How a change will occur is by the products you’re taking killing the harmful organism, virus, bacteria, yeast, parasite, in your system, and then causing you to feel perhaps flu-like, have gas, headaches, nausea. Various pains in your joints may occur. There are many different symptoms which can occur. A lot of them are listed on the sheet you were given called “What to Expect on Phase I. It lists many different symptoms.”
It is possible that the change that can occur may be a bad reaction. It is also possible that you may feel noticeably better, and that’s good! If you feel noticeably better it’s because your body is able to kill the infection, and eliminate the dead waste or debris from the infection, and therefore you’re feeling better. If you feel worse, it’s simply because your body cannot fully and quickly eliminate the dead debris from the infection, and this dead waste, or toxic junk, is causing your body to feel sick. This is why one person may do the same exact program as another; one may feel bad, the other may feel better. Both of them are getting results, but the person who is feeling better–his body is better able to eliminate the dead germs that are building up in his system, so he’s feeling the benefit of killing them and then eliminating them; where the other person is definitely killing these germs and getting an improvement in that way, but he’s not feeling that improvement because the dead germs are building up in his system, and the body can’t throw them out fast enough. So his body is overwhelmed or toxic. And this is what we mean by a change. You will feel either better or worse.
A rotated item on your program that produces no change at all is simply called a “no-change rotated item.” When you’re in the office and we go over your tests and how you’re doing on your program, if we find an item that is a “no-change item” we will refer to it as a “no-change rotated item.” It’s important that you know that term because we’ll be asking you if you had any “no-change rotated items” during your program.
A “no-change rotated item” (produces no effect–you’re not feeling better or worse after the month is over) is an item that has not been efficient or effective on your program, and it needs to be eliminated and something else substituted. Now, we can only tell if the item is a “no-change rotated item” after about three weeks on your program, or a month. Because at any point on the first thirty days of the program, you may suddenly get a reaction or feel better or worse from an item that produced no change the first time you took it. So, if you take a rotated item the first time and don’t feel any different, you don’t need to call the office and let us know this because the second time you take it, or third time you come to it in the rotation, you may then feel a change from it.
Generally speaking, on the rotation, capsules or tablets are taken with meals. Any liquid is taken on an empty stomach. By empty stomach we mean thirty minutes or twenty minutes minimal before you eat. The ideal would be an hour before you eat–or three hours after you eat. You could get away with two hours after you eat, but three hours is ideal. The easiest way to accomplish this is to simply take any liquid items about a half hour before you eat, or forty minutes, and that will work better for you than taking it even two or three hours after meals.
The only item that needs to be taken with food on your program is Biocidin or Bioradiance. Either one of them must be taken with food otherwise you’ll feel very ill. These are very, very powerful herbal remedies, and they’re so strong that you have to take them with their accompanying product, Biotonic (which is a capsule, which should be taken with the meal with the Biocidin or Bioradiance). Bioradiance is a double-strength version of Biocidin. If these are not on your program you don’t need to worry about this information, unless you have a friend who is also on a Phase I program and is taking these. If they complain to you about getting sick after they’ve taken these particular products, you definitely should find out whether they’re taking them with enough food.
To summarize this again, all the tablets and pills or capsules on this program are taken with meals, and all the liquids are taken on an empty stomach except Biocidin and Bioradiance, which are definitely taken on a full stomach. How much you need to eat if you’re taking Biocidin or Bioradiance is something that you’ll find out through experimentation. Some people have been able to eat very little and hold them down and tolerate them without vomiting or feeling ill. Other people have had to eat quite a lot. Some people actually mix them in the food, which can be done. This is something that you should experiment with when you first take Biocidin or Bioradiance. Start at a lower dose than indicated, and see how much food you need to take just to handle that dose. If you take one drop at a normal-sized meal for you and you feel a little queasy, then you know you need to eat a bigger meal. You should then slowly raise the Biocidin or Bioradiance. Don’t just go right up to the dose that’s recommended. Start at a low dose with your normal-sized meals, and then gradually raise the dose as you find that you’re tolerating it. If at any point you don’t feel that you’re tolerating it, either raise the size of the meal–eat a larger meal–or lower the dose of the Biocidin or Bioradiance.
One of the most common questions asked on this particular part of the program regards reactions. And it regards what to do if one gets a bad reaction. If you’re on Phase I and you get what appears to be a cold or the flu, from our experiences, chances are you are not getting a cold or flu. You are simply getting a die-off reaction. A die-off reaction are these germs in your system being killed off, and their little bodies–if you want to look at it this way–are breaking open and releasing their toxins. If you are getting this die-off reaction, the best thing to do is to lower the dose of the remedies that you’re taking. By lowering the dose we mean to cut it back to whatever dose it takes for you to feel comfortable on that supplement. So, if you’re taking half a dropper of something four times a day and getting bad reactions, cut it to half a dropper twice a day. If you’re still getting bad reactions, then cut it down to a half a dropper once a day. And if you’re still getting bad reactions, cut it down to a quarter of a dropper a day. If you’re still getting bad reactions, cut it down to an eighth of a dropper a day. If need be, cut it down to two or three drops. If we’re talking about a tablet or a capsule, and you’re supposed to be taking maybe six of them a day, or maybe nine a day, cut it back to half that amount. And if you still get a bad reaction, cut it down again. It’s feasible for someone to cut the dose back to something they would think ridiculous and not effective, but yet still get results.
What’s happening when you get a bad reaction is that these organisms are being killed faster than your body can eliminate them, so you feel sick. When you lower the dose, you’re cutting back the speed at which these things are being killed, and therefore poisoning your system. So your body is then able to deal with eliminating the dead material at a speed it’s comfortable with so you don’t feel so bad. You can lower the dose literally to ANY dose going down to an amount that fits on the head of a pin if necessary, in order to feel comfortable.
Also, drinking a lot of distilled water is very helpful. Drinking maybe four ounces of distilled water every half hour is very useful in cutting back the symptoms of the die-off.
Another thing which is very helpful is to take an enema, or go for a colonic, or use a colema board. If you don’t know what a colema board is: a colema board is like a home colonic unit. If you don’t know what a colonic is: a colonic is a bowel-cleansing procedure which is usually done by a professional, and it is like a long enema. Those of you who do not know what an enema is: an enema is a procedure where one gets a bag, usually purchased in a drug store, fills it with water, inserts a tube into your rectum, and allows the water to pass into your rectum so as to wash material out of your colon. An enema is a very low-level approach; the colema and the colonic are much more thorough and allow much more water to pass into the system and clean you out. So, a colema, colonic, or enema will help to flush dead debris out of your intestinal tract or colon, which will make you feel better while you’re getting the die-off reaction.
So, the three ways to help cut back on die-off are: 1) lower the dose of what you’re taking; 2) drink distilled water, 4 oz every half hour; 3) to take an enema, colema, or colonic.
The first phase of the program usually lasts thirty days, and after that thirty days you will come back in the office and we will test your urine and ask you various questions which will help the nutritionist understand what’s happened during the phase, and how well you’ve done. It’s very possible that after the thirty-day period you might be finished with this phase, and move to the second phase. It’s also possible that you might need to continue the first phase a little longer, and perhaps change something in the program. This the nutritionist will know by testing your urine and by asking you the various questions. The questions that he asks you are on a pre-made form which contains very specific, standard questions, and what you tell us will help us interpret what is going on with the urine test.
What we look for in your urine basically are three different things. We’re going to be testing your Ph with an accurate meter. The Ph tells us the susceptibility or likelihood of you having active infections. The average Ph should be at about 6.4, and as it drops to 5 or below 4 it means the person is more susceptible to having infections living in their body. As the Ph goes higher, to 6, 6.5, or even 7, that shows the person is not susceptible to infections, and the infections might have cleared out of the body.
The next thing we look at is something called indican. Indican is a measurement of the amount of toxicity in your colon and intestines. Indican is produced by food that is putrefying in your intestines, mixing with harmful bacteria, parasites, or yeast, which is then releasing a harmful substance called indole. Indole is absorbed into you blood, and the body then eliminates the indole through your urine as a different substance which is called indican. Indican is what we’re measuring in your urine. The last thing we look for in your urine is a protein waste product that is given off by parasites and yeast.
Measuring all three of these, plus along with asking you the different questions will help us determine whether or not your program is complete, or whether you need to go to the second phase, whether you need to continue the phase longer, or whether you need to continue the phase and change something in the program.
The next group of supplements I want to discuss are the supplements that are indicated on your program as “daily supplements.” The main, most important things you take on Phase I are the rotated items. There may be items for you to take also on your program that are daily items which are not rotated, yet are very important to your program. They may include enzymes to help your digestion or to help the rotated items work better. They may also include a specific type of anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-parasitic, or anti-yeast agent that needs to be taken every day to boost the speed of the killing or elimination of these organisms.
You may also have another substance on your program which might help with elimination. It is very common that people become constipated on Phase I. Constipation on this phase is basically a trouble spot. If you become constipated you will get an increase in bad reactions. You will get more unpleasant reactions on this phase if you’re constipated than if your bowels are moving well. So, your daily item on your program might be something to aid your elimination.
It’s also possible that, due to a specific situation or problem that you have, that you might be put on a daily supplement of some type to help with some type of chronic complaint that we want to begin addressing right now on Phase I. Generally speaking, taking anti-oxidants which would be beta carotene or Vitamin E, Vitamin C, selenium or zinc, quercetin, pycnogenol, or some other types of vitamins is not a good idea on Phase I. These anti-oxidants could stop some of your rotated items from being able to kill the organisms. If you’re on a candida program, calcium, Vitamin D, copper are nutrients which can all help support candida and keep it strong, thereby avoiding being killed by our rotated items. Any person on a candida program should NOT be taking B-complex vitamins. You may be able to take a singular B vitamins for a specific purpose, but taking a B-complex is not a good idea because it also helps the yeast in its own metabolism.
If you’re on an anti-viral program, anti-oxidants may also not be a good idea, as we discussed above. Also, on anti-viral programs, calcium, Vitamin D and copper are nutrients that can stimulate the virus, reactivate it or keep it in activation. Certain Chinese herbs may also do that. So you should be careful of what you take. Always check with the office before you add anything to your program.
If you’re on an anti-parasitic program, the same would hold true as an anti-candida program, where the anti-oxidants may be interfering with the ability to kill the parasites. So it is always best that you check with the office before you take anything.
There are two versions of the Candida Diet on Phase I. One we call the Basic List, which is a basic candida diet. That’s on the very first page of your candida diet booklet. That is the diet that’s generally good for most cases of candida. It can be used by a vegetarian if they follow the recommended foods listed, and simply do not take any meat products. It is also a vegetarian candida diet–but it is not necessary for the diet to work. A person can eat the meat indicated on that diet and it will work–probably better. It’s a little bit more difficult for vegetarians to eliminate candida if they stay on a vegetarian diet because that diet will tend to be higher in carbohydrates than will the diet of someone else eating meat. We are not endorsing a meat-eating diet as a general health-promoting diet for everybody; we’re simply pointing out that on the candida diet, following a low-carbohydrate diet will help eliminate parasites or candida as fast as possible. No one is claiming that this is a diet that should be followed by everyone all the time as a health-promoting diet.
The second page of your candida booklet has a diet which we refer to as the Caveman Diet, and that is the strictest candida diet for those who have the toughest cases. That diet is mainly meat protein which would be fish, chicken and all types of red meat, and low carbohydrate vegetables. It’s a very simple diet, and that’s all there is to it.
We hope you’ve learned more information about Phase I. To summarize some of the points we’ve gone over:
- The items on your program are rotated and are called rotated items.
- They’re done for four days each, then you stop and move to the next item.
- The liquids are taken on an empty stomach; all the tablets or capsules are taken with meals.
- Biocidin and Bioradiance especially must be taken with food; otherwise you may feel very ill from it.
- Items that produce no change on your program are referred to as “no-change rotated items.”
- The program will usually last about 30 days, and then you’ll come back into the office with a urine sample to be re-tested–either to go on to Phase II, or have your program altered or updated in some way.
- Daily items might be used on your program for specific purposes which will be very individual to you, possibly to assist in better digestion or better elimination through your bowels.
I hope this has given you a better understanding of your Phase I program. Phase I, as we said before, is primarily the phase where we kill the overload of the infection throughout the whole body. And that is the purpose of this phase. There are certain things that we do NOT expect on this phase. We do not expect to eliminate ALL of the infection in the person. We do not expect ALL the symptoms to go away, or for the person to feel he’s totally 100%. That’s what the other phases are for. We do expect the severe symptoms of active infection to be eliminated by this phase. You, the client, may not have a good understanding or accurate understanding of what those symptoms may or may not be. You may have certain symptoms that have been caused by the candida which might persist even after the candida is gone that need to be addressed on a later phase. You might think that the symptoms are due to the candida being alive and causing an infection right now in your body. This may or may not be true. That’s what your nutritionist is for, to help you understand better what is going on or what isn’t going on so you can differentiate between one thing or another.
You should expect certain improvements on Phase I. And in order for you to keep those improvements, it’s very important that you complete the remaining phases. Phase I exists only to remove the major overload of infection in your system so that the following phases can work in totally eliminating the infection and then putting you in better shape so you’ll not have this problem occur again. Phase I and Phase II primarily eliminate the total infection, and Phase III and IV build your system back up and repair a lot of the damage that these infections have caused. You can think of Phase I and II as the killing and cleansing of the infection, and Phase III and IV being the repairing, building up, and boosting of your immune system to then resist these things happening to you again, and to overcome any deficiency or chronic problem you now have due to having had this infection which caused damage to your system.
It is very important that once you finish Phase I you move immediately to Phase II. If you are told that you are finished with Phase I, you must continue taking the Phase I supplements until you actually get and begin taking your Phase II supplements. If someone were to finish Phase I, stop taking the Phase I remedies, and then wait a few weeks to go onto Phase II, it’s very possible that they could fully relapse in only a few weeks, and be right back where they started. Finishing Phase I does not mean you’ve killed all the infection. Finishing Phase I only means that you’ve eliminated most of it, and have that overload or overwhelm out of your system. So it’s extremely important that you continue taking your Phase I items until you actually begin your Phase II supplements. You can continue taking your Phase I items right up to the moment that you open up the packages of the products needed for Phase II and begin taking them–that very day. It should be done in that order. As a matter of fact, many times we recommend a three-day overlap. Continue taking your Phase I items for three days while you begin and start and take your Phase II items for about three days, doing both Phase I and Phase II. This will ensure that while you’re beginning Phase II, you’re still getting the items in from Phase I, and there’s no possibility at all that any harmful organism can start to re-multiply in your system.
I look forward to you completing your Phase I program, and moving ahead to Phase II, Phase III and Phase IV. One of the main goals we have for you on this program is for you to gain more responsibility and more control of your own health. Rather than you being the effect of your health, we want you to be cause over your health. We want YOU to be in charge, not the adverse effect of your health. That is the main goal of this program, to show you that you–with a little guidance–can DO something about your own health, and not be dependant on doctors of any kind–including nutritionists. We want you to learn about your body and be able to read your own body signs. By the end of Phase IV we expect that you will be able to read your body signs and know yourself what supplements you need to take here and there to adjust your body, and improve your body. That is a goal of this program: to gain education on how your body works, and regarding certain nutrients and their use, so you yourself can read your own body signs and know what to take and when, on your own, with a little help from your nutritionist. Enjoy your program!
