Within three weeks he was far more comfortable, had less pain, more energy even though he was still eating nothing but zucchini, had less swelling in his joints.  During the first month he lost about ten pounds and had been skinny to start with.  I then added other cooked nonstarchy vegetables to his diet and we continued the same protomorphogen and supplement program for another month.

Once each month Daniel came to see me.  Each time he had slightly improved organ strength and was able to tolerate a few more foods.  By the third month he stopped losing weight because we added small quantities of cooked rice and millet to his diet.  However, to continue his detox, I had him water fast one day a week, staying in bed and resting all day.  At the start and end of the fasting day he also took an enema.  He continued a weekly one-day fast for many months.  By the fourth month, his immune system testing stronger, a new problem appeared.  Daniel had intestinal parasites.  So I also put him on a six month program to eliminate those.

Daniel required monthly dietary adjustments because he quickly became allergic if he ate very much of anything very often—­broccoli or rice for example.  During this time he became aware of many negative emotions associated with childhood, of young adult frustrations and disappointments.  He was really very angry about many things in his life, even though he had for many years maintained an invariably pleasant social veneer.  But now he began expressing some of these feelings to me and to his associates.

Daniel had an abusive girlfriend, but as he improved this relationship became insufferable.  So he broke off with this woman and found a new relationship that was much more positive, one based on mutual respect and admiration.  There are frequently strong connections between repressed anger and depository diseases like arthritis and gout.  Daniel could not permit himself to constantly be made angry and still get well.

His next layer of symptoms did not appear until nearly eighteen months after he had first come to see me.  By this time he had good energy, had returned to hiking and skiing, camping and canoeing.  He had worked as a printer but was now bootstrapping his own print shop on a shoestring, and became entirely self-employed.  He had a good romantic relationship.  The parasites were gone; his gout and arthritis was virtually gone; many of his food allergies were gone.  Now his body was demanding that its acid/base balance be adjusted and he began to pay attention to the minor back problems he had all along.  Daniel had also developed a new problem—­inflammation of the eye.  It was so severe that he went to an opthamologist seeking immediate relief because he could hardly see.  I put him on massive doses of vitamin C and protomorphogens for the eye and we attacked the other problems.

Now I still see Daniel every three months for minor dietary and supplement adjustments.  His emotional space is very positive.  His business is doing well.  His love life is doing well.  He has developed no new problems and all the old ones are under control.  His organ systems, though better, will never tolerate many insults, physical or mental, but if he lives within his limits, he has every chance of a long and happy life.