It takes a special technique to eat raw yeast because in the stomach and intestines the yeast does the job it is supposed to do:  convert sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide gas.  The entire digestive tract then bloats with gas and the person will feel very uncomfortable for some time.  However, raw yeast is a marvelous source of B vitamins and proteins and can make someone feel very energetic—­if they know how to use it.  The secret is to eat live yeast very first thing in the morning on an empty stomach and then, not eat anything at all for about two hours, giving the stomach acids and enzymes time to kill the yeasts and digest them before adding sugars from another meal.  Some like to eat yeast in fresh cake form, buying it from a bakery.  Others prefer dry granular baker’s yeast blended with water into a sort of “shake.”  This is not a bad place to put your raw egg yoke either.  If you need it sweetened to drink it, use an artificial or herbal sweetener like nutrisweet or stevia.  Live yeast cannot consume milk sugars very well.  So if you can handle dairy, try one or two tablespoons of granulated live yeast, an egg yoke and a little raw milk or yogurt, well whizzed.

Wheat germ is also a great, rich food, but is usually rancid unless it is taken out of the refrigerated display; unless it is refrigerated, in a dated package and fresh, don’t eat it.  Herb teas and roasted grain beverages are healthy beverages, along with mineral and distilled water avoiding where possible chlorinated and fluoridated water.

Diet Is Not Enough

Those isolated, long-lived peoples discovered by Weston A. Price had to do hard physical labor to eat, had to walk briskly up and down steep terrain to get anywhere.  But today, few North Americans output very much physical energy in process of daily life or work.  Not only cars, but all of our modern conveniences make it possible to live without ever breaking into a sweat.  We pay for this ease; it costs us a significant degree of health.

Exercise has many benefits when combined with excellent nutrition.  It creates an overall feeling of well-being that can not be created by diet alone.  Exercising temporarily makes the heart beat faster, increasing blood circulation throughout the body right out to the tips of your fingers and toes.  This short-term elevated flow of blood flow brings increased supplies of oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body, facilitating healing and repair.  Without revving up your engine every day many of the body’s systems never get the sludge burned out of them and never perform optimally.