The Pulse FAQ

No junk, no pop, no sodas, no sports drinks.  Only whole foods which are 80 percent raw and 20 percent heated.  Exercise and be patient.  Diabetes will resolve in 14 days to six months.

Only two types of sugars exist and they are the multi-billion dollar medical mystery of Diabetes.

1.  Simple sugars, called fast sugars, are all processed, refined or artificial, synthetic sugars.  Simple sugars cause diabetes.  Their molecular size is so small that they cross the blood brain barrier quickly, hence their name, “fast” sugars.  This causes the brain to tell the pancreas to release insulin.  Insulin in the blood stream sends messages to the body, which tell it that it is in “extreme danger” and to “lie down”.  Insulin zaps your energy so you’ll have to rest or take a break.  It also tells your body to “put on layers of fat to protect yourself” and the body responds to the message.

2.  Complex sugars are “slow” sugars.  They are unrefined and occur in nature as fruits, nuts, seeds, grains, and, contrary to public opinion, even sweet potatoes and honey.  They cross the blood-brain barrier slowly, sending a message through the blood to the body that all is safe and well.  This causes the pancreas to release glucagons, which energize you, making you want to walk, run and play.  Glucagons even cause you to burn stored fat.

That’s it.  That’s the big mystery.  Diabetes testing, also known as testing your blood sugar, is nuts.  It’s nothing more than an open invitation to turn your health, your money and your life over to a lifetime of ritual invasion.

People have long recognized that what you eat can play a critical role in both preventing and controlling Type II diabetes.  Perhaps the best way to understand the effects of one’s diet on diabetes is to look at two similar groups of people who differ primarily in what they eat.

Consider the Pima Indians.  Researchers discovered that the Pimas, who live in Mexico and eat a lot of corn, beans and fruits, are seldom overweight and rarely develop diabetes.  By contrast, the Pima Indians in Arizona eat an Americanized diet that is high in sugar and fat.  They commonly develop diabetes by the age of 50.

Just as a bad diet can aid in the cause of diabetes, a good one can help control or even prevent it.  A good diet consists mainly of high-fiber, high-complex carbohydrate foods such as taro, poi, greens and fruits.  Carbohydrates, which are found in nearly all foods except animals – fish, pigs, cows and poultry – are the body’s main source of energy.

More on Diabetes, Carbohydrates, and Fiber at http://dontolmanusa.com/blog/

Excerpt from Don Tolman’s FDR Vol pp 372, 373 .

Proud FDR owners, please read section “Diabetes” for more information.  Don’t own one yourself?  Click here to purchase yours today!

The word ‘fasting’ can be somewhat scary, intimidating & even overwhelming.  No worries!  You can do it!  Start out slow & easy.  Start with just one day of fasting.  Fast just the one day a month.  Then, as you & your body adjust to this new (to you) way of life, add another day or so.   A fast can be as short as one day or several days.  Don has fasted as many as 40 days on water alone.  You may not choose to fast that long or just on water, but you get the idea.  The important thing is to listen to your own body.

Simple tips to get your started:

1. Try a mono diet – eating just one food; also, Don-recommended as a method to overcome food allergies – you could eat Don’s Colon Cleanse Fiber Blend
2. Drink fresh juices – fruit or vegetable, even combinations – vegetables having a lower sugar content
3. Drink green smoothies – full of lovely leafy greens – check out two of our loyal readers’ recipes:  Tim’s Smoothies or Anthony’s Green Smoothie
4. Eat raw whole foods – #5 of Don’s 7 Principles of Health: fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables
5. Eat Don’s Authentic Pulse - a nature-rich meal of fruit, nuts & grains (back to the raw whole foods concept)
6. Delay your “break-fast” (get it?) by three or four hours
7. Drink hot soup or broth

Just try one day of fasting and see how you feel.  Keep in mind that the first day of any new routine (dare we say “habit”?) is the hardest!  Your body will rebel with much growling…at first.  It will thank you later, though.  If you’re up for it, extend your fast another day.  If not, try again in a week or a month.

Once you’ve tried your first fast, come back & leave us a comment about your experience.  Feel free to comment no matter how experienced/inexperienced you are at fasting.  Someone else may need your words of encouragement.

Be sure to read our articles about fasting as listed below to learn of the many health benefits of fasting.

For more on fasting, read Don’s FDR Vol 1 pp 390 – 394

Don’t just take Don’s word for it!  Check out what other experts, such as Mayo Clinic, Harvard University, even MDs  have to say about…

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity, Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events:

1.  Breathing fresh circulating air;

• The Fresh Air Fix
• Are You Getting Enough Fresh Air? Important Insights You Need to Know
• Get A Breath of Fresh Air!

2.  Fresh clean water;

• Safe Drinking Water
• Drinking Enough Water (including a Water Calculator)
• Drinking Water

3.  Sunshine;

• Getting Active Outside Can Bring Sunshine to Your Winter
• Sunshine: Harmful & Healthy
• A Healthy Dose of Sunshine is Vital for Good Health

4.  Walking/movement (life is movement);

• Walking
• Walking: Trim Your Waistline, Improve Your Health
• Seven Secrets to Lasting Weight Loss

5.  Whole foods (especially local, fresh, in season);

• The Benefits of Healthy Whole Foods
• Healing with Whole Foods

6.  Loving touching (non-toxic) relationships;

• Why Health Benefits of Good Relationships Rival Exercises & Nutrition
• The Health Benefits of Strong Relationships
• 10 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex

7.      Passion, pleasure in all you do…creating a sense of gratitude for being alive.

• Boost Your Health with a Sense of Gratitude
• Rx for Life:  Gratitude
• How to be Happy:  Tips for Cultivating Contentment

Excerpt from FDR #3 pp 28

Want to learn more?  Hear Don expound on one of his favorite subjects on DTalkz DVD #2 “Embracing the 7 Principles of Health”

See what more Don has to say:

7 Principles of Health

Daydreamin’

Causes & Cures for Chronic Fatigue

Healing Dreams

“For most of recorded history the only medicine available was folk medicine.  Remedies will only be passed on for multiple generations and for millenniums if they work.  Time and distance created the collective body of wisdom we call folk medicine.  Folk medicine then has truly passed the test of time and passed the scrutiny of experience.

Folk medicine is the compendium of wisdom that reflects not just the science of health but also the art and the method of these principles.  For instance, the nature around us in the area of living chemistry presents an array of non-toxic healing substances that are the Materia Medica of nature’s apothecary.  Whole foods provide a safe, living, energetic, “chemotherapy” if you will.  Whole foods are the anatomica metabolic nutricon that constitutes folk medicine.

Today, pharmaceutical science is jealous, envious and even hateful of plants and their attendant work, they do their work, their magic and wonders, without doing harm.  There is not one vaccine or drug that do that.  In my mind, I can see a time coming early on in the “Age of Imagination” we are now in, when every man, woman and child embraces “Self Care” by walking everyday, eating just whole foods and developing and maintaining a positive (inner sunshine) attitude.  These things go a long way to not only prevent disease but to remit existing conditions.  I do believe that within this next decade, the best of modern medicine, symptomatic response mechanism in the form of “first aid“, will be joined with ancient natural principles of “folk medicinal cures” to form a hybrid, “in home (effective and cost effective) clinics of Self Care.”

Whole food and fasting, working with nature’s air and water, sunshine and walking, pleasure of family and relationships and passion in creative pursuits, these are the bed rock of vitality into longevity; these are the seven Principles of Health.  As our modern society’s very fabric seems to be fraying at the edges, it is obvious that the valuable heritage of natural healing preserved by “backward” (truly genius) people and their enviable lifestyle of simplicity through time, need to be not only applauded and honored, but fully embraced into the daily performances of our own individual existence.  Self care.  There truly is no greater power than an idea whose time has come.” – Don Tolman

Excerpt from FDR #3 pp 137

Whether you call the nutritional components of the brain/nervous system foods:  Botanical Nervines, Ortho-Molecular Infusions, or any of the other made up Latin names for purposes of sound “scientific”, it’s still as simple as eating common whole foods that support your body’s Autogenic Self Healing System.  At the end of the day, most, if not all, psychiatric disorders are due to significant deficiencies in key nutrients that are present in whole foods.  Nerve disorders are healed and re-missed in the same way.  Embracing the 7 Principles of Health allows healing to naturally occur.

The 7 Principles of Health that lead to the Gift of Sleep, Dreams, Imagination and Creativity, Intuition and Supra-Luminal Enlightened Recall of the Past and Future Events:

1.  Breathing fresh circulating air;

2.  Fresh clean water;

3.  Sunshine;

4.  Walking/movement (life is movement);

5.  Whole foods (especially local, fresh, in season);

6.  Loving touching (non-toxic) relationships;

7.  Passion, pleasure in all you do…creating a sense of gratitude for being alive.

Excerpt from FDR #3 pp 28

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You can also hear Don speak about this and many other subjects on the DVD: “Health: Remembering the Lost Truths“  or DTalkz DVD #2 “Embracing the 7 Principles of Health”

For you proud FDR #3 owners, check out “Brain/Nervous System” section.

Vegetable Jewel

Medi-Sign Target: Heart & Blood

Behold the beautiful beet, the jewel of the vegetable kingdom.  One glimpse at her amethyst physique and we know that this bauble was surely fashioned to tempt!  Who could ever resist such a pregnant package, and who would want to once curative secrets are revealed?

Benefits:

• conquers kidney stones
• controls blood pressure
• protects your heart
• strengthens bones
• works for cancer

The next time you crave a sweet treat, try beets.  Instead of reaching for a sugary snack full of empty calories, grab a beet instead, which is full of valuable nutrients.  They also have the highest sugar content of any vegetable.  In fact, 40 percent of the world’s refined sugar comes from beets!

Beet leaves, especially when small, crisp and fresh, are delicious and nutritious.  Instead of tossing them in the garbage, trim off the tough part of the stem that hangs below the leaf.  Heat up some olive oil and your favorite seasonings in a frying pan, sauteing the leaves until they are soft. Dig in & enjoy!

Storing Solutions

Canned beets are easier to prepare, and they taste almost as good as fresh ones.  But if it’s the nutrients that you’re looking to store, canned beets may not be your best bet.  Fresh beets have at least twice as much potassium, folate and other nutrients as the canned ones.

Do not let fresh beets intimidate you.  They are easy to prepare.  Try baking them like a potato or shred them fresh into a salad.

Excerpt from Farmacist Desk Reference Vol. II pp 190-191

Proud FDR owners, read more about beets and other wonderful whole foods.

There are two basic kinds of constipation. The first is called atonic, which is a lazy bowel.

The second is spastic, which is the narrowing of the colon with small, ribbon-like stools. For atonic constipation, a high fiber diet and increased fluid intake is recommended. Once the problem has gone away, it will be necessary to retrain the bowel, as explained below. Spastic constipation may be caused by nervousness, anxiety or an obstruction like plaque and parasites.

CONSTIPATION: Death begins in the colon.

You are suffering from constipation if your bowel movements are infrequent, uncomfortable and the stools are small and hard. Regularity of bowel movements is important although the frequency may vary. For optimum health, you should have one to three good bowel movements a day. It is quite surprising to know that many people have a bowel movement only every few days, or even once a week. This is certainly not good because decaying fecal material and toxins in your intestines can contribute to many other diseases. It is vital to get fecal material out as quickly as possible; transit time is everything!

Take this simple test to see if you have a bowel problem:  if your stools float, they have enough fiber; if they sink, you don’t.

Constipation has causes – so discovering the cause will point the way toward using the appropriate remedy:

• Poor dietary habits of eating junk and foodless foods
• Lack of exercise and a sedentary lifestyle
• Lack of fiber in your diet.  Fiber adds bulk to your stools, stimulates proper bowel contractions and promotes healthy bacteria in the colon. One of the problems here is the high intake of refined white flour and animal meals in the modern diet. Products with refined flour have little or no fiber, and subsequently the intestines have nothing to help the normal wave-like. Called peristalsis motion pass digested material through the body.
• Medications like some of the ones used to reduce blood pressure and cholesterol, among others do not work. They are dangerous.
• Some people who are anaemic and take iron
• Vitamin D supplements
• Pregnancy
• A deficiency in whole food folic acid

Natural relief for Constipation…

• Whole foods prevent constipation, piles and diverticulitis
• Beans, legumes and grains contain insoluble and soluble fiber to help guard against constipation
• Whole grain cereals and bread provide insoluble fiber and help constipation
• Fruits like prunes, raisins, apricots, figs and apples.

Most Americans get only half the daily amount of fiber that they need to prevent constipation. To get enough fiber, eat a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables, three servings of whole-grain foods and one serving of beans a day.

Water: Stimulate the Intestines
Drink a lot of water!  You can also get the benefits of citrus without the peel. Squeeze the juice of a lemon into an eight ounce glass of warm or hot water and drink it first thing in the morning to help stimulate a bowel movement.

Dietary Changes:

• The basis of your healthy diet and long term wellness program should be to change your diet by eating a high fiber diet with plenty of fresh fruits and leafy green vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds.
• Eliminate sugar and white flour from your diet.
• No soda pop!
• Juice fasting is one suggested way to eliminate toxins from the body and get various systems going again!

Excerpt from Farmacist Desk Reference Vol. II pp 347-351

Proud FDR owners, read more about constipation, fiber.

Ready to detox now? Colon Cleanse will get you on the right path. Then add fiber-rich Pulse Living Pulse.

“We exist to imagine.  Use it or lose it.  Use it or die.  The cosmos, the world, people around you, animals, plants, air, water, sunshine, etc. exist for you and you for them; “E. Pluribus Unum”; “all for one, one for all,” all for the “imagination” that you bring to the party.  Just like Einstein and others have observed, imagination is more important than knowledge, imagination is everything.  Your imagination is why you are here.  Use it, grow it and bless the world with its exercise.

It is for this cause, “your imagination,” that the FDR has been written.  As you deepen your intimate relationship with wholesome whole foods, you’ll discover that each individual food is there, by design, to fire different aspects of your imagination and to support specific anatomical constructs that your imagination built from a single cell in order to give physical residence for imagination to dwell in, to relish in, to play in, as it expresses its unique perspective onto the landscape of present physical three-dimensional reality.”

Excerpt from Farmacist Desk Reference Vol. 1 pp 12

You may recall me talking about this before…Wholefoods are colored the way they are for a specific reason. Each color group has meaning and can influence how you feel. Let’s take a look at YELLOW wholefoods: Yellow is the color of sunshine. It’s associated with joy, happiness, intellect and energy! It produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity and generates muscle energy. Eat plenty of foods in the yellow, plant food spectrum like Corn, Lemons, Pineapple and a summer favorite – Mangoes!