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From "An Analytical System of Clinical Nutrition"
by Dr. Guy R. Schenker

Supplying The Basic Essential Raw Materials
You will find as you begin your NUTRI-SPEC practice that patient compliance on dietary recommendations is often difficult to obtain. That is why your first priority in making dietary recommendations to your patient is to emphasize avoidance of the really damaging foods, those most immediately and severely devastating to that patient's fundamental imbalances. This degree of compliance seems to be fairly well within the capacity of all but the most derelict patients. Securing this minimal amount of patient participation in the restoration and maintenance of their health is generally all that is required to allow your NUTRI-SPEC supplements to exert their biological activity. 
  
There is, however, the possibility of a patient sabotaging the success of even the most specifically applied NUTRI-SPEC regimen by showing no regard for basic common sense nutrition. It will amaze you the number of patients willing to invest substantial amounts of time, energy and money in seeking the ultimate in clinical nutrition from a professional like yourself, who will at the same time let themselves (literally) slowly starve to death.  
  
What you need is a basic dietary plan to give each patient a solid foundation from which your NUTRI-SPEC supplements can work. In essence, you need recommendations to provide the same broad base of nutritional support to your patients' diets that Oxygenic B does to their supplements.
  
You must understand that the high biological activity of your NUTRI-SPEC supplements will direct a patient's body to regain control of its body chemistry, restore balance, and thereby rebuild health. However, if the raw materials are not there, the tremendous potential of the supplements will not be realized. For instance, if there is inadequate protein available, your NUTRI-SPEC supplements will be in the position of an orchestra leader conducting an orchestra missing the violin section. The result will be the complete absence of substance and balance.

Exposing A Few Common Myths 
Before you can grasp the essentials of nutritious eating, you must empty your head of all your preconceived notions regarding what constitutes a healthful diet -- notions which have no basis in fact. In other words, you must see exposed a few common dietary myths.

What is a myth? It is the common wisdom of the day. It is "knowledge" that is so universally endorsed by the experts that it is unquestioningly accepted by the masses. It is these mythological pearls of wisdom that fill the scrap heap of human progress -- such self evident "truths" as: 
- the earth is flat  
- hurricanes come when we make the gods angry
- social welfare programs are the answer to poverty
  
It was Will Rogers who said, "The trouble with experts is that so much of what they know just isn't so."

Such is the current state of affairs in the field of dietetics. We have so many pseudo-scientific experts spouting off so authoritatively that we tend to swallow their nonsense without subjecting it to real scientific scrutiny.

Here are a number of the most ubiquitous myths that you very likely believe yourself, and that are believed by virtually all your patients.
 

Myth #1: "I and my whole family are doing a good job of sticking to our low cholesterol diet. Heart disease runs in both sides of our family, so we're playing it smart.” There is no correlation between high dietary cholesterol intake and high cholesterol levels in the blood. Neither is there any correlation between high cholesterol intake and heart disease. There is some (though over-rated) correlation between high serum cholesterol and heart disease. But to claim a correlation between dietary cholesterol and heart disease is purely a non sequitur, an unscientific jumping to conclusions.
 

This lack of connection between dietary cholesterol and heart disease is explained in a number of NUTRI-SPEC publications as well as in articles published by research scientists. In a nutshell, the story on cholesterol is as follows: There are two considerations with respect to abnormal cholesterol. They are the level of cholesterol circulating in the blood, and, the deposition and oxidation of cholesterol as part of atherosclerotic plaques on the arterial walls.
 

The causes of high serum cholesterol are many, and they relate to several of the NUTRI-SPEC imbalances. The NUTRI-SPEC imbalances that tend to favor elevated cholesterol levels are: electrolyte stress, anaerobic imbalance, dysaerobic imbalance, and glucogenic imbalance. From a dietary standpoint, the most significant contributors to these imbalances and their associated elevated cholesterol levels are the consumption of refined starches and sugars, and, to a certain extent, salt and polyunsaturated vegetable oils. Dietary cholesterol intake is absolutely irrelevant.
 

The deposition of cholesterol in arterial plaques is, as well, related to several of your NUTRI-SPEC fundamental imbalances. Those are particularly the electrolyte stress imbalance, the anaerobic imbalance and the dysaerobic imbalance as well as the Ketogenic imbalance and the prostaglandin imbalance. From a dietary standpoint, again, the actual cholesterol intake in a diet rarely has any significance. Far more important are the foods that exacerbate these imbalances. Also significant are the chlorine and fluorine found in public water supplies, and the enzyme xanthine oxidase found in homogenized milk.

Cholesterol phobia, the epidemic that has afflicted the Western world for three decades, is finally showing signs of waning – but it is not giving up without a fight. Countless millions of the ignorant are still suffering its major symptoms:

• deficiencies of eggs and the other foods high in cholesterol and saturated fat that are essential to a long, healthy life (and, essential to keeping blood levels of cholesterol down).

• anxiety suffered over serum cholesterol levels above 200, even though there is almost no correlation with cardiovascular disease (CVD), and absolutely no causative effect on CVD.

• liver destruction from drugs that interfere with normal cholesterol metabolism, thus artificially lowering serum levels of cholesterol while doing nothing to correct the causes of CVD.

You must understand that cholesterol (and saturated fat) are essential for the development of the brain in infancy. Cholesterol (along with saturated fat) is essential to preserve brain function in the elderly. You also must recognize that these delightful fats are an essential part of all our hormones and are the functional constituents of all biological membranes. Anyone ignorant enough to fear these friendly fats has been victimized by the most vicious propaganda machine – the agri-business and pharmaceutical establishment.
 

As is so often the case, the common wisdom of our day is not only inaccurate, it is exactly opposite to the truth. The establishment has convinced the masses that unsaturated fats are saviors that are not only healthy in themselves but somehow protect you from the perceived damage of cholesterol and saturated fat. This is false. The damaging effects of unsaturated fats vs. the healthful effects of saturated fats are covered below. So, you are learning the truth – but can you effectively get the message to your patients?
 

Only you can save your patients suffering from fat phobia. Tell them, “Cholesterol is not a deadly substance. Quite the contrary, it is the vital substance from which your brain is made; from which your hormones are made; and from which your cell membranes are made. Cholesterol is so important that your own liver produces 2000 milligrams of it daily just to make sure you have enough. If you fall for the popular anti-fat propaganda and eat a low cholesterol diet, your own liver will make all the more in a desperate attempt to produce enough. Understand that when cholesterol does build up to abnormally high levels in your blood it has nothing to do with how much cholesterol you ate.
 

It has to do with an imbalance in your body chemistry that prevents you from handling cholesterol properly. I am going to find and correct whichever of those metabolic imbalances you may have. That is the purpose of Nutri-Spec.”

Above all, make your patients understand that there are dietary considerations important in maintaining normal cholesterol metabolism and thus normal cholesterol levels. There are two food groups that derange metabolism and elevate cholesterol levels (1,2,3):

• sugar

• polyunsaturated fats (vegetable oils)

Think of all the foods that contain sugar. Then, think of all the foods made with toxic vegetable oils. These would include the obvious such as salad dressings, margarine, and all fried foods – but also include all bread, all processed cereals, all crackers, virtually all baked goods, and almost anything else that comes in a package. I would venture to say that scarcely a person in this country eats a single meal in a typical week that doesn’t contain vegetable oils and/or sugar. These are the causes of high blood fats. These are, as well, the causes of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and really any of our degenerative diseases. If your patient still is convinced that high serum cholesterol is bad and low cholesterol is somehow healthy, then enlighten them with the following facts. Cholesterol levels less than 180 are associated with (4,5,6):

• a 200% increase in stroke

• a 300% increase in liver cancer

• a 200% increase in lung disease

• a 200% increase in depression (and increased suicide)

• a 200% increase in addictive behavior

(Here is a side note on the emotional and behavioral aspects of low cholesterol: A group of Dutch Doctors headed by Diederick Grobee, a professor at Erasmus University Medical School found that cholesterol is essential to make serotonin. (7) Serotonin, as you probably know, is the “feel good” brain chemical that is deficient in so many people with depression and anxiety. Many of the common antidepressant medications are serotonin uptake inhibitors. How many of the people that are desperately in need of extra serotonin are suffering depression and anxiety because they eat low fat processed food?)
 

Furthermore, the correlation between serum cholesterol and CVD is becoming more tenuous all the time. Even William Castelli, M.D., a former director of the famous Framingham heart study (the one that originally supposedly implicated cholesterol as a problem in CVD) notes that people with cholesterol lower than 200 suffer nearly 40% of all heart attacks. (8) Think of it – low serum cholesterol means you have a 200% increased chance of having a stroke, and now, high cholesterol is no longer thought to be significantly correlated with heart attacks. How many people over the last 30 years have negatively impacted their health by decreasing saturated fat and increasing unsaturated fat in their diet in the name of preventing CVD? It has all been a hoax perpetrated largely by the seed oil industry abetted by the pharmaceutical industry.

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