Here is an interview from the last Raw Summit with Dr. Brian Clement and his wife. Dr. Clement is the Director of the famous Hippocrates Health Institute in W. Palm Beach, FL. Just remember that Dr. Clement is very strict with food intake and it takes time to get to where he is.
The InnerLight Supergreens and Prime pH from www.TheBestGreenDrink.com definitely help with the transition to green, living foods and away from addictive, sugar & chemical laden foods and drinks most Americans consume.
Chow,
Janice
RAW SUMMIT 2: DRS. BRIAN & ANNA MARIA CLEMENT INTERVIEW
TRANSCRIPT
SANDRA: Tonight we are privileged to have the codirectors
of the Hippocrates health institute in West Palm
Beach, Florida. Dr. Brian Clement, and his wife Dr. Anna
Maria Clement. HHI is committed to the ancient wisdom of
Hippocrates, who said, let food be our medicine. Codirectors
Brian and Anna Maria Clement are international
educators, authors, and visionaries who embody the very
best of the raw and living foods lifestyle. In his role as
a progressive educator, Dr. Brian Clement has traveled
extensively at home and abroad. In recent years, he has
been commissioned by government supported organizations to
establish, organize, and direct health programs in Denmark,
Switzerland, Greece, and India. Brian has spent more than
30 years studying nutrition and natural health care. He
has graduate degrees in both naturopathic medicine. And
nutritional science. He is a frequent guest on television,
radio, and in print as well as a resource expert for
several publications. Dr. Anna Maria Clement founded the
first living food organization in Scandinavia. And was a
member Sweden’s natural health care coalition. She is also
one of the leading experts in live blood cell analysis, a
revolutionary technique in the comprehensive assessment of
a person’s state of health. And author and much sought
after international lecturer in her own right, Anna Maria
has been co-director and chief health administrator of
Hippocrates Health Institute, first in Boston and now in
its new headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida. Despite
her world acclaim, Dr. Anna has said her most important
role is as a mother to her four children, whose perfect
health is a tribute to the Hippocrates lifestyle. So Dr.
Brian and Anna Maria, thank you and welcome to the raw
summit.
BRIAN: It’s nice to be with you.
ANNA: Oh thank you, it’s so great to be with you.
SANDRA: Perfect. So can you each, uh, tell us a little
bit about how you got to where you are? We’ll let the lady
go first.
ANNA: All right, I, I am from Sweden so I started out
there. And, uh, was lucky enough to find my way to become
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vegetarian at 15. And more less fumbled into that. But
then the, when I was done with, uh, high school, I knew
that I wanted to be doing something in this. So I figured
out that I better learn from somebody wh–, who already
knows it.
SANDRA: Right.
ANNA: And I was lucky to find a woman who had healed
herself of, uh, rheumatoid arthritis, in her 50’s, actually
she woke up one morning and was totally different after
living on medications for years and years. And even her
jaw has different.
SANDRA: Wow.
ANNA: So she had to change her life.
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Right, exactly.
ANNA: — and, uh, it was her turn in life. And then,
uh, she opened a clinic in Sweden, it was fantastic. We
had tens of thousands of people go through there and, and
people from all over the world.
SANDRA: Great.
ANNA: Actually, [SOUNDS LIKE: Pavay Rolla] came and
stayed with us. He wrote the book There is a Cure for
Arthritis, after that visit. And, uh, you know, I learned
from her, and then I learned from Ann Wigmore is, the other
incredible woman who cured herself of colon cancer.
SANDRA: Right.
ANNA: To come to United States in 1983. And then, um,
long story short, I thought I’d come there for a few months
and bring it back to our clinic and really incorporate the
live food. Totally different. We were vegan but, you
know, it’s totally different when you get the live food in.
And, but then I met Brian and I never made it back.
SANDRA: [LAUGHS] That’s a good thing.
BRIAN: Romantic prelude.
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
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BRIAN: If she saw me when I started this, she wouldn’t
have been too romantic–
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: [LAUGHS]
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] She knew that there was a god
underneath.
BRIAN: Yeah, I was about 240 pounds and smoked 3 packs
of cigarettes a day.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: My favorite thing was to hang out in nightclubs
and I was a jazz drummer and all of this business. And,
and I was in my, uh, education to become a biochemist at
that point. And realized that when I was walking up
stairs, every three or four steps, I had to stop.
SANDRA: Oh.
BRIAN: To breathe. Now I wasn’t that bright. I was
pretty sick obviously, doing all those weird things. Uh, I
realized that that was wrong.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And thank god my girlfriend at that point, her
best friend, a girl she grew up with, had a boyfriend ten
years older than us. He was 30 and we were 20. And when
you’re 30 and somebody’s 20, man they are prophet.
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: And this guy was really a weird guy. I mean, I
grew up in the New York City metropolitan area. And he was
a vegetarian, so I knew that meant he was a homosexual.
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: But I knew one thing. I always taught even
formally by my teachers that, uh, all men ate meat.
SANDRA: Oh my goodness.
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BRIAN: But as, as my girlfriend and I would be alone,
quietly, and none of my friends saw me, I said let’s try
some of that vegetarian stuff. And I actually liked it.
And I had never ate real food in my entire life. My family
should have been the test family to see who gets the
disease first from fast food.
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: And before you know it, he’s got me down, this
prophet. 30-year-old prophet who did yoga too, that was
really weird back in the 60’s. And, uh, he said to me, you
know, I see you kiss your dog. You love your dog. Now
this sounds strange to a lot of the listeners out there, he
said you eat animals. I didn’t really get, I never really
thought it out. I guess none of us really want to think
about it. That I was consuming animals.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And in one fell swoop, without any understanding,
this was healthy or unhealthy and even though I was
studying anatomy and the way the body works, I became a
vegetarian. Within a very short time, a couple of years,
became a vegan. And one summer when I was living out west
in Oregon and it was very warm, 100 degrees and more every
day. I just gravitated towards living food and remember I
had read something about Ann Wigmore, and did it and went
to, uh, Tavis center on the Oregon coast. I was gonna
create a center there in the 70’s. Where I’d open it in
April and close it in November and hike and put people on
raw foods, et cetera. And I said, gee, before I do that,
why don’t I go back east and live another year. And I was
invited to work at the Hippocrates Institute, and, uh, the
rest of the story, there. Within a matter of two or three
years there, I was sent to Europe. I brought the living
foods program there. At, met my wife, Anna Maria. For the
first time there when I brought Ann Wigmore to open a
gourmet vegan restaurant in downtown Stockholm. Then, uh,
in 1980, after three years in Europe, bringing it all over
the countries and into India and into Egypt, working with
governments there. I came back and was invited to direct
Hippocrates, so I guess I’ve been the director now for 27
years.
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Wow.
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BRIAN: My wife, uh, joined me and she’s been the codirector
since 1982. 1983. And we just love each other
and love what we do, and we thank god every day that we
have the honor, uh, to do this work and watch what people
can do when they take responsibility for their diet and
their life.
SANDRA: Well it really shows, um, the care that you guys
have, not only for each other, but for the institute and
the people that, that frequent it. Um, it’s just amazing
the, the way you can feel the vibe even though you’re not
there. You know? So what is, um, what is your definition
of a raw diet? Like, what would be the definition of, of
raw for, for you two?
ANNA: It means that it’s 80 to 90% at least of vegan,
organic, living food.
SANDRA: Gotcha.
BRIAN: All vegan, but it’s at least 90%, 80% raw.
SANDRA: Gotcha.
BRIAN: And you know, it’s organic. Uh, people have to
realize that there’s a lot of theories and philosophies,
and a lot of enthusiasts out there. Cheerleaders as we
call them in the living food field today. When people get
turned onto this diet, it turns out very well 100% of the
time. But not everyone’s ready to go to the goalpost. And
the goalpost is to eat 100% organic, 100% vegan. And at
least initially, 100% raw food. Uh, we did so, Anna for a
number of years, myself for 8 years. And then when we were
still in Boston, we had the good fortune of having, uh, MIT
professors working with us. And we were using their
laboratories to do research. And I realized that when we
told people who came to us, and again, most people in those
days that came to us, were very seriously ill. They were
given weeks or months to live. Today the good news is, in
the last 50 years, uh, it’s changed. In 10 to 15 years
now, what’s happening is about half the people that come to
us are healthy people. Or people that have minor problems,
that don’t want to go through the same problems that their
parents did. So when we were saying to them, you know, you
have to be 100% raw the rest of your life, they would sort
of look at us with this lost thing. And it seemed almost
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hopeless and impossible. So we did some research. And
this goes back probably 25 years ago now. And the research
showed us that after you immune system becomes maximized
and strong and healthy. That one can eat up to 20, 25 %
organic, cooked, vegan food without the immune system being
compromised. Now, of course, this is after a person has
healed a disease.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: We’re not talking about people with cancer or
heart disease or diabetes or multiple sclerosis or the many
things we work with daily and have for decades. But you
can eat a little bit of cooked food, and, and once we came
to that conclusion and started to teach that at
Hippocrates, uh, back in those days, 20 some years ago, boy
what a load that took off people’s back. And they just
said, oh now I see this as viable and there’s light at the
end of the tunnel. And when I say to a cancer patient, you
know, I know you were eating meat and I know you were, you
were eating a horrible diet, as I did at one point. I can
still relate to that. But in two years, because we
realized in 90, 95% of the cases in two years, we can
loosen it up and say come on, eat some steamed broccoli.
Or eat some, you know, millet, and, and that just makes a
world of difference to people. And it makes this program
user friendly.
SANDRA: Right. Exactly. So are you, so you guys are,
you guys are 90% raw right now?
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] Well this time of the year, when it’s
this warm in the tropics, we’re probably 100% most of the
time. But you know, we eat a little cooked food, just to,
tonight we ate sweet potato.
SANDRA: Oh great
BRIAN: And you know, that, that type of thing. And all
day long and yesterday I ate 100% raw food and, and we
fast, uh, once a week. But sure. And then in the winter
time and especially when I’m in very cold climates and
traveling, I may go to a vegan restaurant and, uh, have
millet or tempe or something like that occasionally, and
maybe 20% of my diet for a day or two or week may be, uh,
cooked.
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SANDRA: Now does fasting have, uh, any adverse effects on
your metabolism as far as slowing your metabolism down and?
BRIAN: If you take the improper juices. I mean, we’ve
done a lot of work on that over the years. And, uh, water
fasting, we’re adamantly against. Uh, we recognize it, the
statistics show us, uh, internationally, in Europe and
North America, that the majority of us are malnourished.
Most listeners really don’t get that in the United States,
we actually, literally have more malnourishment than most
third world countries.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] And most people eating quote health
food are malnourished too, because–
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Really?
BRIAN: — cooked, you know, and, and processed health
food. So you say, well how’s that possible? Because if you
look at those third world countries where a percentage of
the population is starving, what are the rest of the people
eating? Whole food diets that they’ve been eating for
hundreds to, or thousands of years.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: So, no water fasting. That’s number one, because
it does weaken people. Neurologically damage people. Uh,
we’ve noticed people who do water fasting long time, as
they age, uh, dementia is a very common thing. Because of
the B12 problem. And also the neuron activity that’s
created from fatty acid depletion. Uh, and we don’t think
fruit juice is a good idea, because that just hyperactivate
the neurological system, feeds every form of disease. Um,
everything from cancer to virus. Our current e-news letter
is showing a study out of Johns Hopkins and, proving what
we’ve been teaching for 30 years about sugar. It just gets
the pancreas a little wacky and, and shoots up the blood
sugar, shoots down the blood sugar. And feeds viruses and
molds and yeast and fungus and bacteria. So that’s out of
the way. But how about green drinks? And how about green
drinks that are made with sprouts? And the sprouts like
sunflower and wheatgrass and pea green sprouts. All are
complete protein. And let’s go back.
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SANDRA: Mm hm.
BRIAN: When you’re fasting, one of the things that
everyone says I’m starving, I’m–, you’re not starving.
You’re blood sugaring. And how we know in science to
regulate blood sugar is with protein. If you can take a
complete protein juice, like a sunflower or a wheatgrass,
it regulates that. And for those people who have blood
sugar concerns. In this country, it’s about 60 to 70%.
Either are hypoglycemic, are diabetic, high or low that
means. We’re close to it. And then you have a very easy
fast, because it regulates the blood sugar. And those of
us that don’t have blood sugar problems, you’re not gonna
feel like you’re starving. You’re gonna feel like it’s
possible. You’re gonna be nourished. So if you’re already
malnourished, why do that?
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Right.
BRIAN: Eventually what we recognize and understand is
that you literally get far greater benefits in cleansing by
doing green juice fasting with no carrots, no beets. I’m
talking about green juice fasting. Additional to the
sprouts with the celery, cucumber, watercress, parsley,
kale, cabbage. Things of that nature. Which no sugar
content to speak about. And with that, you’ll clean the
liver better, you’ll clean the arteries better. The
enzymes within the juice will emulsify the fat deposits and
the chemicals out of the body. The oxygens within the
juice, because it’s chlorophyll in it, is going to bubble
up waste and bring much more out of the system than just on
water fasting, and certainly on fruit juice. But people
are so addicted to sugar, that’s why they tend to go to
fruit juice fasting, et cetera.
SANDRA: Right. Well can you, uh, speak a bit about
optimal food combining and why that’s important?
BRIAN: You know, the, there’s a debate on this, and it’s
sort of silly to me. I, I don’t know what’s wrong with
people. It’s, it’s a very simple scenario. I suggest to
people who are a little anal and a little intellectual on
this process, to take foods that are commonly combined.
Uh, in the west, the most common combination is a worse
combination, bad combination. And that’s proteins and
starches. If you combine protein and starches, we know in
biochemistry, you can create over 120 different chemicals.
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The most notable being sulfur. Sulfur, again, smells like
rotten eggs. When it, gastrically comes out of you, one
way or another. And that’s where most of that odorous gas
is coming from. A protein in the starch and living food
diet, would be a grain of some type or, an, an steamed
bread or something you’ve made in the dehydrator mixed with
any form of a nut. Nut butter sandwiches is an example,
where people take, uh, grain crackers, as they dehydrate,
and then they put a nut butter.
SANDRA: Mm hm.
BRIAN: If you look at granola, not that that’s a living
food, it’s, I couldn’t invent something with a worse
combination. It’s grain and it’s nuts, and then did they
top it off by putting sugar in. Now let’s talk about that.
If you, if you ask me how they make whiskey, I’m gonna tell
you that they grains and sugar. What’s the difference if I
put fruit into my grain bread that I’m making in my
dehydrator?
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: It’s not gonna take months to break down to
alcohol. We estimate it’s gonna take between 20 and 45
minutes to break down the alcohol.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: Many people are literally, uh, getting alcohol
highs from mis-combining these foods together.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: So, combination’s important. There are four
major rules. Everyone listening, write these rules down.
Number one, do not mix proteins and starchy carbohydrates.
Proteins are nuts and seeds, and things we make from nuts
and seeds. Starchy carbohydrates are grains, and grains
should always be eaten sprouted. Beans and beans should be
eaten sprouted. And root vegetable. That’s number one.
If you get that, you’re 50% there. Number two rule, is
that you can never mix fruits and vegetables together. And
we’re talking about the sugary varieties of food. If we
talk botanically of course, a pepper could be considered a
fruit, uh, et cetera, et cetera. What we’re really talking
about are the sugary fruits with vegetables that are not
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sugary, and green in origin. Now you’re, you’re there.
Melons should not be eaten with any other food, at all.
Because melons rapidly move through the body. That’s why
when you take melons, where do we all stand in the queue?
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: Very simple.
SANDRA: Exactly.
BRIAN: And it’s a good thing too. And then the last
one, when eating fruit, when you’re in a conquest of the
disease, and I’ll repeat the list again. Cancers of any
type, viruses of any type. Rino or retro virus.
Bacterium, bacteria of any type. Spiral k, lymes disease.
Fungal problems, yeast problems. Low blood sugar,
hypoglycemia or diabetes, which is high blood sugar. No
fruits. Until you field yourself. Now again, we’re not
speaking out of a theory of philosophy as many of the
enthusiasts do. We do clinical research on a daily basis
and have for decades and collected thousands of thousands
of thousands of statistics on these things. Now, after
you’re well, and your immune system’s functioning, no more
than 15% of your diet should be fruit, by weight. Not by
imagination. For every 10 pounds of food that you eat,
when you’re healthy, one and a half pounds can be, not in
my life, but can be fruit. And when drinking fruit juice,
dramatically reduce the sugar by putting mostly water and
taint the water with fruit juice, as they’re doing with the
popular waters now. It actually tastes better to you after
a short time. If it’s too gross to take that amount, and I
don’t mean only gross mentally, but physiologically. Uh,
to take it. So that’s, that’s the four rules there.
SANDRA: Wow. That, I, that would have, is so amazing
that, the part about the fruit. I mean, everybody tells
you how healthy fruit is for you, but if your body is
already in a state of distress, you have to hold off from
it. For a while.
BRIAN: Well, there’s two major problems. Not only, uh,
is fruit not what it used to be. And all the naturalists
run around and say monkeys eat it and this and that. You
know, it’s all cute stuff, but it’s not science. Fruit
today has been hybrid, and it’s not just in recent times
we’ve hybrid. We’ve hybrid it for millennia. Thousands of
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years. It started in Africa and then moved into Japan, and
China. And the average fruit today has 28 to 34 times more
sugar than the original fruit. As an example for the
listeners, one time from the University of California, I
spoke to the agricultural expert in fruit, fruit
cultivation. And he said to me, what’s your favorite
apple? And I said red delicious. And he said, well that‘s
about 50 times sweeter than the original apple. I said
what was the original apple like? He said do you like
crabapples? I said they’re too sour. He said they’d be
sweet compared to the original apple.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: Now, number two is no fruit, including organic
fruit is pick ripe. You can’t market ripe fruit, because
it rots. So what they do is they intentionally pick it
weeks and months in the case of citrus, early. Here in
Florida we have wonderful juice oranges. They pick them at
the end of November. You know when they’re really ripe?
SANDRA: When?
BRIAN: April.
SANDRA: What?
BRIAN: Yes. In California, an insane Sunkist actually
take green oranges, they found its better for them, less
perishable, and spray-paint them orange. Yeah.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: And so, even the organic fruits, because they are
marketed, and people cannot grow fruit, put it in a box,
the m–, the distributors. And have them rot because they
get all the fruit back. They have to pick them unripe.
You eat on ripened fruit, number one, they’re acid, unlike
all of these enthusiasts try to tell you it alkalizes the
body. It acidifies the body. Number two, it robs
nutrients from every cell in the body, including the bone
structure. That’s why you’ll see if you really have a
dangerous and bad impact on arthritic conditions, osteo
conditions. It actually weakens the cells of every organ
in the body, and on and on it goes.
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SANDRA: Wow. Oh my god. I’m so glad I’m talking to you
guys. This is like some major information here. Dr. Anna,
are you there?
ANNA: Yeah, I’m here.
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Good, okay. [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: [LAUGHS]
SANDRA: Well, since you’re one of the, uh, leading
experts in live blood cell analysis, uh, can you tell us
how does, uh, this technique assess a person’s state of
health?
ANNA: Uh, it’s amazing. For sure. You know, I just
love it because I sit with people in my office every day.
You know, we have a 21-day program. Because it really
takes 21 days to change a habit. So when our students
first arrive, we look at their live blood and when they
leave we look at it again. And we compare it with the
clinical blood test that we also due, as you arrive and
when you leave. And they are totally compatible. It’s,
uh, they work so great together, but the great thing about
live blood is that you sit there and you look at it, and
you can see what’s, what is the problem as I’m explaining
it, and then especially after three weeks, you’re a pro at
it. You know what to look for and how, how much better you
want to look. And it’s always above what you expected.
But we see the red blood cells, the condition of them and,
you know, they are, they are what you’re structurally made
of. The, the organs, your tissue. Bones–, everything’s
made of red blood cells, so you see how they are doing.
You see your immune system, the different kinds of white
blood cells, there’s T cells. There’s the B cells, the
lymphocyte. You have leukocyte, like [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
constantly out there. It’s so incredible to see
[UNINTELLIGLBLE] There is just a bunch of enzymes that are
munching and eating and cleaning your blood.
SANDRA: Now, when you say you can see it, are you like
projecting what’s on the microscope?
ANNA: Yeah, what we do, we put on a, uh, normal screen,
uh–
BRIAN: Flat screen.
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ANNA: Flat screen, uh, we take a drop of blood from
your pinky, put it on a slide, put a little cover slide on
it, and magnify that 10,000 times.
SANDRA: [WHISTLES]
ANNA: And off they go and they’re running all over the
place.
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
ANNA: It’s just incredible. And it, you know, you see
your health history. Uh, on the, the, there’s something
called dry blood. And then you let the dry blood sit and
dry for like 5 whole minutes, and then you can go back in,
uh, in time. Even decades, I can go back and see what
happened, which tells a lot to make their program up too.
And, um, you know, it’s an incredible help.
BRIAN: And not only is this scientifically so valid,
when we mix the medical blood test with this. We don’t
think, uh, that one on its own is enough.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: Mix the standard blood test with this. So when
Anna Maria is looking at the cells, says gee there seems to
be too few of this particular cell. And we look at the
numbers of the medical blood test. Together it’s not half
and half. When you put them together, you get 100 of times
more information. And then when the guests see this, I
mean we can say a lot of encouraging things to them, but
nothing works more effectively than this. When they come
and they see everything clumped together and they’re
malnourished. And the oxygen’s low, and they have a lot
crystals and, and disease floating around. And in just a
matter of a few days, 17 days, 18 days, usually before they
see it at the end, it’s radically changed and improved.
Psychologically, what that does, I cannot even articulate
in words.
ANNA: Yeah.
SANDRA: Now, is, is it possible, do you like, save a, a
sample from when they start to compare it after the 21
days?
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BRIAN: We do that.
SANDRA: Okay.
BRIAN: We do that.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: So that’s an amazing thing. Cuz we actually can
take the dark and see that we can change disposition. As
an example, if a per–, Anna Maria can look back 25, 30
years ago and say my god. And they think she’s psychic,
but we can teach any intelligent person to do this. And
say you broke your leg.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: 25 years ago.
ANNA: [OVERLAPS] Or surgery, or summation or, you know.
Something like that.
BRIAN: And over the, the decade then [UNINTELLIGIBLE],
we also now realize the emotions that that can infect. Uh,
she’s written a chapter in a new book that will be coming
out from living food leaders. It’s gonna be printed and
published in columns. And her whole chapter is talking
about that, and a big section is about the emotionality you
see in it. And it’s always right on target. Keep it, we
get–, problem with a man, and they, they freak out that it
was 3 years ago. Uh, you’ve had a problem with a woman,
your child, uh–
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Wow.
BRIAN: And it’s not psychic, I mean, these are–
ANNA: This is cellular memory. You know, every cell in
your body, like your skin, like everything in your body,
has a memory.
SANDRA: Right.
ANNA: And, and it shows up, uh, in, uh, cell structure
on the microscope.
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BRIAN: It’s quantum biology infracted.
SANDRA: Now, does that memory still hold even when you’ve
done a detox, or?
ANNA: Yes, and then you change. The, a lot of changes
have happened, because you plant so much that especially,
let’s say you come from a big city and you’re coming with
heavy metals, heavy chemicals. A lot of that is cleaned
out with our incredible diet. And you know, a lot of
emotional stuff has been worked on, lot of inflammation
with the raw food diets, might not be there anymore. So
you see big changes.
BRIAN: All of the guests at Hippocrates, the first thing
we do with them is give them psychotherapy. Uh, we don’t
think that anyone can be healthy or can achieve complete
health without that.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] Need to unload that toxing, uh, more
than any other toxin. And when we do that, then we are so
self respectful, we then eat right and do the living food
and exercise.
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Right.
BRIAN: Get our spiritual act together. So it’s a
combination, it’s not just one thing. The food is
certainly the fuel.
SANDRA: Right. Well you two are you, you know, blessed
to be on the same page nutritionally. What advice can you
offer for other couples who aren’t so fortunate? Uh,
meaning, one person would like to go raw or vegan and the
other one doesn’t?
ANNA: Yeah, that’s the problem we encounter every day.
This happens to, you know, this question comes up all the
time. And it is tough because especially, you know, a lot
of women, now more and more men are coming in, but they
might go home to their spouse and, and they say, you know,
this is not something I want to do. And will all, you
know, what they’re accustomed to, especially one parent
stays on it, and one parent is changing, that’s gonna, you
know, be the, the weird thing.
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SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Right.
ANNA: And there, it’s gonna be a stress for that child.
So you know, but then again, you might have to really look
at this big picture, because do you want this child to be
contaminated?
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] Yeah, we, we actually council people
to a point. When you have children in your relationship,
we had four. Um, and as you pointed out, we’re blessed and
thank god every day we, we do this together and, and love
it and would never think of any other way to live.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: But how about if you come home to a husband that
is so addicted. All of us are super addicted. I’m
addicted, Anna’s addicted. We’re recovering addicts. And
a lot of the listeners out there today are not recovering
addicts. They’re still slipping in and out of their old
patterns.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And so you go home to a husband that has these
dangerous patterns, but now you have a young, vulnerable,
wonderful child that you may have together and you may love
this man. Or you may love a woman. You can make it either
a man or a woman. And they, every time you’re not looking,
take the child and bring them to a McDonald’s or feed them
candy, or make fun of you. And that can be tolerated short
term. But we tell people not to tolerate that long term.
One of the most, if not the most important role we have as
human beings is to have children. And to make sure those
children have a healthy upbringing.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And if it gets to a point where that mate of
yours. That spouse, or that lover of yours is literally
sabotaging the health and potential life of your child, you
have to make a split with that person. But in the initial
stages you should work together in a loving compassionate
way, to try to have it happen. Make them understand even
if you’re addicted. Don’t do this to our child.
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SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Right.
BRIAN: And by the way, I don’t know how anyone who’s
conscious and doing this can be with a person who does all
of those horrible things,–, with you.
SANDRA: Right, exactly. Um, the, the living, living, uh,
raw lifestyle can be quite time consuming. And most people
don’t have the support of an entire institute like you guys
on a daily basis. How can a busy person incorporate raw
food into their hectic lifestyle?
ANNA: Well, we got to make it fair and simple. And you
know, nowadays you can really go into a healthy store and
get your, uh, raw or living foods. You can get, uh,
organic food that’s already washed, you know. Uh, veggies
and sprouts for you. You can get, uh, uh, juice in, uh,
juice bars and there are health food restaurants. I mean,
they are popping up much more around you nowadays. You
know, I mean, it, for us though, it’s a commitment to
[UNINTELLIGIBLE]. Because for 30 years, we’ve seen people
think they’re, I mean, saved their life on this diet. So
you know, it’s, we’re teaching that make it simple, but
using for example, to be a part of your life. You make
juice that’s half sprouts, like sunflower and bean sprouts,
and other sprouts, and the other half is, uh, leafy greens,
celery, cucumber, all organic. And we make two, like 16
ounces of that, twice a day.
BRIAN: Yeah, we think this is simple. Just to be honest
with you. It’s really about focus and commitment. Uh, we
don’t think it’s difficult at all. Uh, the difficulty
comes from the internal struggle people have. In selfsabotage.
Or the patterns we have. I mean, I was really
an addict. And I would do everything harmful against
myself, but didn’t perceive it as that because I learned
that from loving parents, by the way, who did the same.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: Same pa–, my mom was always obese. She was
married at 98 pounds. And most of her life she was 200
pounds. So I was, every day when I came home, I had cake.
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Wow.
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BRIAN: And that was the way my mom and maybe most of
your moms listening, loved you.
SANDRA: Right. Through food.
BRIAN: And, and poor women, or, you know, we talk about
women’s liberation. The only way that women, worldwide,
even American women and European women, are truly, truly
liberated, is with food. The only way we have ever let you
open and truly express yourself. And that is deeply
ingrained into our emotions, our soul, our spirit as human
beings. And, and I didn’t realize that struggle till maybe
25 years ago. My work, and you know, the, people
intellectually get this. I mean, who doesn’t
intellectually get when you eat this food is pure and it’s
gonna fill the body and take the disease away. We win
awards because so many people get well. But you still have
mommy told you to eat these bad foods. Are you rejecting
mother’s love?
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And that’s deep stuff we’re talking about.
SANDRA: Very deep.
BRIAN: But that’s what you’re struggling with, you’re
not struggling with this being hard. You’re struggling
with making yourself respectful enough to go beyond those
entrapments that you have. And understand mom didn’t know
any better. She did what her mom taught her.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: Culture and the society. And, and accept mom’s
love.
SANDRA: So, uh, so is it possible that, if we talk a
little bit about one, uh, person in a couple being raw or
vegan and the other person is not. So perhaps the one
strategy could be to show them how it’s not time consuming
and that, uh, it’s something that they can do quite easily
as opposed to very hard. Is that, is that something that
would help make that transition a little bit better?
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] As the New York Times said, 5 years
ago, that the most significant dietary trend of the 21
st
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century is a raw living diet. And why they’ve said that is
because after all of the different theories and
philosophies and sales pitches, people get that if you take
food and wash it, that hasn’t been sprayed. That doesn’t
have chemicals on it, and eat it. It has to be inherently,
and intellectually, and spiritually, and emotionally,
people know it has to be better for you. And that’s why
this is a permanent trend. The fastest growing restaurants
from 1997 till 2001, in the United States were raw food
restaurants.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: I don’t know any raw food restaurant that opened
that still doesn’t remain open and, and are successful,
unless people chose not to continue on with the restaurant.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And people are understanding this. And I’m not
saying everyone listening today is eating 100% raw or 90%
raw. Or even aspire to. But even if you eat a little bit
more of this, it’s gonna help to change you awareness. And
the, every step in the right direction, with greater and
under, understanding and awareness, will make us want and
desire more.
SANDRA: Exactly.
BRIAN: So start, just to be compassionate with those
around you and give them time as it took us all time. It
took us a long time, especially me. But the fact of the
matter is, if they’re gonna come around they are, and if
not, you’ve gotta grow beyond that circumstance.
SANDRA: And, um, let’s, let’s take the positive vein that
both of the parents are on, on the raw, or vegan, uh, path.
Can you talk a little bit about how to create a healthy
regime for children to follow, especially teenagers in that
peer pressure mode of hey, let’s go to McDonald’s.
ANNA: We’ve been through that. We have three out the
house, we have a 9 year old at home.
SANDRA: Wow.
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ANNA: Some of that with him later. So we’ve been
through, you know, and food, you want food to look and
taste like mainstream food. So you don’t have all that
peer pressure. Uh, so you know, as the parents, you, you,
we have them in the kitchen with us. They, they were a big
part of making meals. Making things that they love to make
hummus. They love to make, uh, dehydrated stuff and sauces
and raw soups. And, you know, and make them the way that,
uh, that it looks mainstream, so their friends would eat it
too, you know.
SANDRA: Oh, okay.
ANNA: Actually a lot of friends have been educated just
by eating with us and asking how come you don’t eat
chicken? How come you don’t eat fish?
SANDRA: Right.
ANNA: And actually stopped eating those foods, parents
have told us, because they got educated from our answers.
BRIAN: And you know, you have to have your children hang
around with other people like this. Otherwise you the,
you’re the weirdo.
SANDRA: Right. Exactly.
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] Mom and dad are, we’re weirdoes
anyway, but the fact of the matter is –
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: To a teenager, you gotta be a weirdo, cuz that’s
part of the birth–
SANDRA: Birth, right. [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: You got to get on beyond that. I guess I did it,
you did it, all, everybody–, but the fact is, you don’t
want to make you, yourself look in appearance to be the
only people in the world doing it. So find other people,
get into community circumstances, uh, last weekend we were
at a conference that we bring, brought two of our children
over their lifetime. We had them get with other children,
of course, we’re blessed at the institute. Many children
come and sadly stay, because a lot of them are very, very
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sick. And we bring our children into play and to
communicate with them, and that does more than I could ever
do or their parents could ever do in a million years.
SANDRA: Right. Because it’s a–
ANNA: You know, children can eat much more. They can
eat about like, per weight, they can eat 40% of their day
can be fresh, organic fruits. Ripened fruits.
BRIAN: Yeah, when they’re below 20 years old or so,
because you have to make sure it’s ripe though. If it’s
not ripe, you don’t give it to the children. But they can
eat 40% because they metabolize differently. And the
sugar’s burned up.
ANNA: Yes.
SANDRA: Right. So now for those people that are, uh,
seeking a healthier, more vibrant way of life, what, uh,
encouragement can you give them when they get frustrated,
uh, with their progress or lack of progress?
BRIAN: Well, you know, take a breath. And understand
that none of us are saints.
SANDRA: Right.
BRIAN: And the, the job is to get on the horse and head
to the sun. But you may fall off sometimes. Don’t be
discouraged. Dust yourself off. Get back on the horse and
continue on. Uh, at the early days, I found myself in
closets, eating ice cream. You know, and then after a
while I just got sick when I did it, so I stopped. It
wasn’t I was smart enough not to do those things. I was
still addicted enough to do those things. You could beat
yourself up and say look at what a, a bad person I am. And
I’m not worthwhile enough to do this honorable stuff and
feels as conscious as it makes me. But go ahead and, and
keep going forward. You’re not going to ever do this
without flaw. Dehydrators are lifesavers. And dehydrators
replace ovens. They make the food look like, taste like,
feel like, and act like cooked food. Again, cooked food is
not only the biochemistry we’re talking about. It’s the
emotionality of mother.
SANDRA: Right.
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BRIAN: Socialization. Holidays. All of this, you know,
layer after layer of, of stuff. And when Anna spoke to you
about our children, they love to the dehydrator and make
nut burgers and on and on it went.
SANDRA: Oh, wow. Now what i–, what is the best way to
deal with the detoxing effects of going raw?
ANNA: First of all, you’ve got to drink enough fluids.
A lot of people tend to dehydrate. They’re not thirsty
enough they tell me. Or, you know, they forget about it or
they don’t fit it in. We got to, we find that, uh, half an
ounce per pound you weigh, let’s say you weigh 160 ounces,
you need about 80 ounces of fluid. Now that juices that we
make, that’s the wheatgrass juice. The–
BRIAN: Water.
ANNA: Water. And, you know, so make sure you get
enough fluid. And, um, as part of our beginning of the,
the three weeks that we do at the institute is all the
detox plan. So if you can maybe have a colonic.
SANDRA: Mm hm.
ANNA: [OVERLAPS] In a town, maybe somebody does a
colonic, and you can have a chlorophyll implant before and
afterwards. We use wheatgrass at the institute, but if you
don’t have that, you can do blue green algae implant. You
can take for simple, and ounce [UNINTELLIGIBLE] or, uh,
powder blue green algae. Take a tablespoon and four ounces
of water, mix that up–
BRIAN: It’s just to remineralize the electrolytes.
ANNA: [OVERLAPS] Exactly.
BRIAN: In the large intestine.
ANNA: And so you, you help yourself doing that once a
day for the three weeks. That’s what we found, and of
course, exercise. We do everything from qigong yoga, um,
weight training, pool exercise. Walking, and normal, uh,
aerobic exercise.
BRIAN: Saunas.
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ANNA: Saunas. Fantastic.
BRIAN: The more you help the body eliminate all this
burden that you’ve put on it over the decade, the better it
is, and the more comfortable you’ll be with it. Because as
Arnold Veras said it so wisely 100 years ago, this is
nature’s surgery table.
SANDRA: Right. Right. [LAUGHS] And when you talk of
water, what kind of water specifically? I mean, you know,
we walk into the store and we see all kinds of bottled
water and so what–
BRIAN: It’s clear, it’s clear to us, as scientists that
there are only two kinds of water that are mainstream today
that are viable. And there’s controversy about the life
and all this business. This distilled water. But let’s
tell you. Distilled water is pure hydrogen and oxygen.
H2O. And if somebody wants to put a little bit more life
in there and alkalize it, you can put a couple of drops of
minerals in it. Put it on the windowsill, let the UV rays
come in it. Uh, and it doesn’t deplete the body of
minerals. I’ve been drinking distilled water for 35 years.
Uh, I was told I have the bone density of a 22-year-old
athlete at almost 60 years old.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: And the fact of the matter is, that’s all
propaganda and non-science. The second one is organized
molecule water. The Japanese started with that. Systems
like the wellness system, the state of the art system now.
It’s called a living water system. We distribute that, uh,
from Dr. Higgins, out in California. And, uh, that has 17
phases. Literally gets the water so it’s almost like
distilled. Then electronically reincodes nutrients and it,
the frequency of the nutrients enter into the frequency of
your cells, and enhance the dynamics of n–, nutrient
absorption in the human body. And then of course, you
have, uh, things that are not truly filters, but are
helpful. And they are the alkalizers. And they actually
take the water, after you’ve filtered it through something
like the living water system or distiller. And organize
the structure of the water. And that’s another very
wonderful thing. Why we say this is the only two. And out
in the, in the world there, you can find pure smart water.
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That’s a good one because it’s re-mineralized distilled
water in good plastic.
SANDRA: Ahh.
BRIAN: Plastic bottles are dangerous.
SANDRA: Gotcha.
BRIAN: And I’m not talking about the flavored smart
water. I’m talking about the pure smart water. But why
this is is back in the late 80’s, uh, we started to allow
the United States worldwide. And additives into our
gasoline called MPDE. It’s an ethyl. And now it’s an all
over aquifer. All of our water. All over the, the world.
Wherever they have gas, which is everywhere. And this is
the most deadly chemical humans have ever created. And
unleashed in our environment. Basic cancer if you look at
it practically.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: The only two systems that really legitimately
take it out are distillation or organized molecules.
SANDRA: Wow. So the penta water is not, um–
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] That is not a good, pure water.
SANDRA: Not a good.
BRIAN: No organized structure. If they, if they just
didn’t want to be so greedy and put a very good system in
to make it really clean, and then organize it, that would
be a different story.
SANDRA: Gotcha.
BRIAN: Plus penta water’s un, ungodly expensive.
SANDRA: Right, yes it is. Yes it is.
BRIAN: You can buy one of these units, believe me, in a
year you could pay for one of these units that do a better
job.
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SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] For ever then.
SANDRA: So now, uh, in regards to healing, what are the
pschy–, uh, physiological changes that happen when a
person sends out loving thoughts?
ANNA: Well, you know, if I sit and look at your blood
and then take it, let’s say that then, uh, we take it again
after five minutes and you sent out happy thoughts. Or
positive thoughts. Something positive. I can see it in
your blood.
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] It’s true, we see it –
ANNA: There’s a chemical change immediately. There is
a hormonal change and chemical change.
SANDRA: Wow. So now if, if we combine those loving
thoughts with eating living foods, will that, uh, speed up
anyone’s healing process? Or does it–
ANNA: No doubt.
BRIAN: Absolutely. Let’s explain this a little bit
deeper on a chemical level for the listeners. Uh, we know
more today than we’ve ever known about hormones. Although
we’re like kindergartners still. The entire scientific
community, uh, we’re getting a little texture. We’re
understanding something. And hormones are the messengers.
They’re the chemistry in your body that allows cells to
communicate with one another. 1996, two guys from the
University of Texas won the Nobel Prize. And they showed
us how cell talk. And it’s hormones that do that. Now,
hormones don’t only allow your own cells to talk to one
another. And then your organs become those cells that
communicate as an organ, other organs. And those organs
together, don’t only communicate as organs together, but to
you as a human being. Now we get to how you and I right
now, when we’re listening and talking, are communicating.
Believe it or not, even though you think this is an
intellectual pursuit. This is more hormonal activity than
anything else.
SANDRA: Really?
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BRIAN: Human brain has to say, oh I’ve heard that sound
before. When I put those sounds together, I understand
this word. When I put those words together, I understand
the sentence. When I put those sentences together, I
understand the paragraph and the thought. And by the way,
as all of that’s going on, you have memories of how all of
that has happened.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: And the textures and substances. Now, when you
see somebody you’re attracted to, you can come into a room
with a thousand people, never know anyone in that room
before. The day I met Anna Maria in Stockholm, that
happened to me. And how did I communicate with her? How
did she communicate with me? That’s hormonal. The most
common name they, they talk about is pheromones. But
that’s one of the many hormones that we intercommunicate
with human beings, and other life forms. When you’re
sitting at an ocean and nothing’s really happening, there
is a flat body of water, uh, there, at times here in
Florida there’s not even a wave happening. What is it that
attracts us to that? It’s a hormonal connection. Some like
to be in the woods. Very, uh, deep in the dark forest.
Some like to be h–, high on a mountaintop. And whatever
we are instinctually feeling, we like to be with. What
life forms, what environment. What human being. What
community, what society. What geographic location. Is
hormonal connection. And when you can create a po–,
positive hormonal connection, you’re psychologically
transmuting and transforming the cells happiness. Your
health is going to be irreputably good.
SANDRA: Wow. Is that the, is that the same kind of
phenomenon that happens when say little children, they’re,
they may go to an adult stranger, whereas in another
stranger, they would be like, oh no. I don’t want any part
of that person. And you don’t really know why, but you can
just tell. Is it that same kind of thing?
ANNA: That’s very similar. You know, I just thought,
also you heard about Dr. Shopra’s [SP] work when he says
happy thoughts make the interfere and interlook [SP], which
actually will heal you much faster and, and negative
thoughts make cholesterol, cortisone adrenaline. So of
course it’s gonna change this chemistry and hormonal
balance too.
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SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: And there’s so much of this we see daily in our
work. I mean, you know, we can tell pretty much when a
person comes in. Uh, who in the conquest of the disease,
who’s going to very simply heal that disease and who’s
gonna struggle with it. Uh, we, we’ve worked with
thousands and thousands. Now I’ve worked with hundreds of
thousands of people. Here at Hippocrates and all around
the world. When I ran and directed centers in abroad. And
every one that we’ve ever seen heal, we probably could have
told you they were perfect candidates for that the day we
met them.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: Because outlook and perception is everything.
Uh, 15 years ago, I wrote a book Belief, All There Is. And
I confirmed that. I believe it. Because, if you, your
perception creates your reality. And if you don’t have a
large, full, happy, whole perception, you have a reduced
lifespan. A reduced level of health. Certainly a greatly
reduced level of contribution. And you view sadness.
You’re part of the problem and part of the resolution.
SANDRA: Have you two ever seen an instance where a person
may be living a, uh, raw or vegan lifestyle, but because of
their outlook, their body is not very healthy?
BRIAN: Thousands of times.
SANDRA: Wow.
ANNA: Yeah.
BRIAN: That’s why everyone gets psychotherapy. We don’t
take control of your food. Food, food opens up your
consciousness and gives you the ability. To be well. But
your mind and perception is what makes you well.
SANDRA: Gotcha. Very interesting, oh my god, this has
been so, an eye opener for me. I hope for the listeners as
well, but definitely for me. And for those, um, that are
not familiar with Hippocrates Health Institute, can you
tell us a little bit about it and the wonderful results
you’re seeing there. Just a little–
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BRIAN: We’re the oldest health organization in the
United States. For 51 consecutive years we’ve welcomed
people from every corner of the globe. As we sit here now
in our program, we have 6 countries represented.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: And, uh, half the people that come to us are
extremely healthy, curious health seekers today. A lot of
people come to us for holidays now. And the other half are
in conquest of some form of disease. Uh, we’ve won awards
because we’re, out of all organizations they’ve ever looked
at, having more people heal catastrophic disease than any
other organization. Be it, by the way, allopathic or
natural. And we moved out of Boston back about 21 years
ago. And opened here 20 years ago in West Palm Beach,
Florida. After looking all over the North America and
settled the saunas here. And we’re very pleased. This is
the cleanest city and cleanest area of this type, in this
48 states. Uh, the only place cleaner than this would be
Kona coast of Hawaii.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: We have the sun, the, a lot of sun of course.
And the breezes coming from the Caribbean that flow right
here into West Palm Beach. And we create an atmosphere, a
jungle atmosphere. A resort atmosphere, and do very
serious work in advanced formative work for people. And
our objective is to give people back their lives by getting
them to respect and to accept their lifestyle. And to tell
them that even though your parents and society wasn’t
trying to harm you and hurt you in any way. That, until
you start to honor and respect the gift of life, you’re
always going to find ways to, to reduce that life, and
reduce the potential in that life. And so we work with
them on every level, showing them from practical things,
like how to grow their own foods and make their foods and
go out to an excellent health store. Show 85% of what
here’s not edible. To psychotherapy. To counseling work.
To seeing in classes, 20 to 30 classes a week. Showing how
to prepare foods. Showing them how easy it is to live this
way. And giving them joy. It’s sort of like an adult
camp. That we have.
SANDRA: Right. [LAUGHS]
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BRIAN: It’s really a, and it’s like saying okay, we
screwed up when we were kids. Let’s do it all over again.
SANDRA: Do over, do over. [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: We’re, we’re right now at the beginning of
building the world’s first serious health village. And
they’re large buildings. Uh, large homes. 2000 square
foot homes, and normal people. Real people are going to be
moving in here. And it’s gonna be a wonderful thing. And
we’re looking for properties out on the West Coast of the
United States now. We’re in negotiations periodically with
people in Europe. Uh, we just donated 150 acres in the
Berkshire.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: Northeast, uh, people in the Northeast know where
that is. In the future we’re looking to do a lower income
type of Hippocrates. Because we don’t want this to ever be
elitist.
SANDRA: Right, exactly.
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] Out of touch of the average person.
SANDRA: Can you, uh, explain a little bit about your
wheatgrass therapy? I noticed that, uh, you guys, don’t
you, you grow your own wheatgrass and you also–
BRIAN: [OVERLAPS] We’re the guys that brought wheatgrass
to the world. Wigmore when she was in the conquest of how
she was going to help people to heal themselves. She had
to find a substance, and she read the esteem gospels. The
Killi Vardos [SP] work. And in there, uh, they were
speaking about the use of wheat and growing it in your
home, even in the snowstorm in the middle of winter. Or in
the dessert in the idle of summer. And how that wheat in 7
days has blood in it that’s similar to your blood. The
chlorophyll. And it’s, it’s literally like inoculating it
in your system. It’s, for the last 20 years, globally been
the most important and most popular health food. In spite
of the fact it’s not the tastiest thing. People keep going
back for more because of the results they have. And when
you start to change the blood cells, all you are really is
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blood cells. You start to change everything from your
physiology to your consciousness.
SANDRA: Now is it the, uh, the type of wheatgrass that we
should take. Is it um, like, if I go into Jamba Juice and
get a shot of wheatgrass is, is that where I should go? Or
should I go to a health foods store?
BRIAN: No, I mean, wheatgrass is wheatgrass. I don’t
know anyone, uh, so far in all the 38 years I’ve done this,
uh, that do not grow organic wheat.
SANDRA: Okay.
BRIAN: Every bit of this is organic wheat. Now the
grower is going to make it either taste good or bad. We
have a master grower. The wheatgrass here, it’s delicious.
It goes down, it’s smooth, et cetera. When I travel, which
I do constantly, speaking, uh, I don’t always have that
experience. But every day, I take wheatgrass. It’s that
important. You know, wheatgrass is a complete protein too.
Wheatgrass has, as an example, two ounces of wheatgrass
have a nutrition that 7 pounds of vegetables have.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: And listen to what I’m telling you. These are
factual statements. Uh, the average sprout, which is a big
part of what we tell people to eat, is 10 to 30 times more
nutritious than the best vegetable. So that means if you
go and pick a vegetable from your organic garden, wash it,
and eat it. It’s 10 times less nourishing than a clover of
sprouts.
SANDRA: Oh my goodness.
BRIAN: And 30 times less nourishing than wheatgrass.
SANDRA: Wow.
BRIAN: So I mean, that’s why people have to wake up.
And especially in the living and raw food communities. You
can’t just live on fruits and vegetables that were picked
somewhere a week or two weeks ago.
SANDRA: Gotcha.
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BRIAN: You have to eat food that’s alive, growing, and
bursting with energy at the time you consume it, with
massive nutrients.
SANDRA: Exactly. So aside from, uh, the community that
you guys are creating, what other new projects are you
working on?
BRIAN: Oh, well, books. I, I have a new book coming out
called Life Force. Uh, superior health and longevity.
That will be October 1
st
. And that’s a book publishing
company. Um, vitality, another book I’ve finished. It
will be out in 2008. At some point. It’s gonna talk about
all the elemental factors that we have to use. Uh, oxygen,
water, and food, et cetera. And happiness is a chapter in
that book. Uh, I’ve a–, also finished a book that I’m
exposing the entire supplement industry. That ought to be
out in the next 6 months. And that’s called the vitamin
myth. And the listeners out there should know that well
over 95% of supplements on the market are damaging and
dangerous, and you shouldn’t touch them. Everyone should
either be on whole food supplements, which we fully
support. Because people on food alone in this stressful
environment, it’s never enough for most of us. And, uh,
uh, I’m just today, finished early this morning, uh,
talking to my editor. And I’m starting a book on
sexuality, to demystify and de-religify sex and give the
health benefits of it. Psychological, spiritual, and
physical. And it’s not gonna be a dirty book.
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Right.
BRIAN: It’s a serious book. [LAUGHS]
SANDRA: [LAUGHS]
BRIAN: Although I want it to be dirty. [LAUGHS] Maybe a
serious book, really, you know. When we peruse all the
literature and all of the publications out there, this is
gonna be a pioneering book.
SANDRA: It sounds like it. That’s great. Oh my
goodness.
ANNA: A new cookbook, healthful [UNINTELLIGIBLE]
SANDRA: Uh huh.
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ANNA: That’s coming out too, that, that Kelly and I
wrote, and [UNINTELLIGIBLE], another chef has added his
wonderful recipes.
BRIAN: And his book just came out about a year ago.
SANDRA: That is great.
BRIAN: That, that book is wonderful. H–, home health
remedies. And it’s all the work that she’s done with our
poor children and for hundreds of thousands of other
children all over the world. And people she’s worked with.
And that’s a wonderful book too.
SANDRA: Do you, um, ever conduct any, um, seminars for
families on how to, you know, raise their children raw?
Like, aside from, aside from at the institute though.
BRIAN: Yeah, we, we’ve done that. And lots of families
attend our conferences worldwide. Um, for the next two
months I’ll be traveling all over the world. I’ll be on
the west coast this week coming. I’ll be in New York City.
In Boston. In Maine. In, uh, in Toronto, Canada. I’ll be
in Southern California. At the end of December, and on and
on this goes. Uh, Anna Maria and I are in Europe quite a
bit. About a month, month and a half every year. And
often, we attract families and mothers and father. S and we
encourage children at Hippocrates.
ANNA: A lot of families.
SANDRA: That is great. Well Dr. Brian and Dr. Anna
Maria, thank you so much for your time and your spiritual
insight. It’s, has been eye opening and truly a pleasant
experience.
BRIAN: Well for people to get a hold of us, we can give
our number and our –
SANDRA: [OVERLAPS] Please, please do.
BRIAN: Well if you’re in, uh, the 50 states, 800-842-
2125. The number again is 800-842-2125. And then to get
on the web to our website, our store, et cetera. It’s
Hippocrates Institute. H-I-P-P-O-C-R-A-T-E-S. Institute.
I-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-E.
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SANDRA: Perfect.
BRIAN: Dot org. Or dot com. Either dot org or dot com.
But it’s one word. Hippocrates Institute dot org or dot
com.
SANDRA: Perfect, well thank you again and this is Sandra
Hodge with the raw summit, raw summit 2 dot com. Thank you
for listening and we’ll see you next time. You guys have a
good night.
BRIAN: Bye bye.
SANDRA: Bye bye.
END OF TAPE DRS. BRIAN & ANNA MARIA CLEMENT