The body of such people is significantly toxified. It represents a kind of garbage can with dead cell debris and protein mass inside. These unpleasant substances stack in intercellular space and stuff lymphatic vessels. This garbage interferes with normal functioning of the body, it hinders intercellular communication decreasing the strength of electric signals between cells. According to Natural Hygiene, the body of such people (I repeat that it concerns the majority) occurs in so-called the third condition. This means that these people are not apparently ill but it is hard to call them healthy.

First of all, exactly this category catches cold, flu and another ailments. It happens because the toxic body doesn't resist a disease. Instead, it welcomes it with open arms considering the microbes to be rescuers to whom it becomes possible to feed all garbage. Such body is a wonderful banquet for various bacteria, which are to come and "eat" dead and dirty cells making liquid garbage out of them. Later, it can be easily removed from the body through lymph and bloodstream and then through kidneys and other ways of elimination of garbage and toxins.

Exactly so. From time to time the body "switches" the immunity off and has to ask bacteria and viruses for help, and mainly those that in small amounts always live in our body and wait for their hour. Sometimes the body is lucky to pick up something from outside - flu or more serious infection. 

Most of medical theories are based on the belief that the body actively resists ailments but it cannot "overcome" them on its own. That is why physicians must help. And they do it, first of all, with the help of various remedies delivered by pharmaceutical industry, which has the only purpose - to produce more effective and up-to-date chemicals-killers. Their aim is to exterminate disease initiators - microbes and viruses. Huge amounts of money are spent to produce such remedies. Today we can already hear complains that physicians work not for a patient but for pharmaceutical industry assisting it in selling new chemicals. Patients are also not happy with it, but being blinded by the very conception of disease, obediently swallow pills. More than 50 years ago doctor A. Zalmanov called this process that happens in our society, "pharmaceutical bacchanalia". Since that time, though, this process didn't slowed down, instead, it runs and accelerates.

I support the hypothesis of pathologist A.V. Rusakov that is "quite radical" according to few orthodox physicians who are familiar wit it. He suggests that a diseased body doesn't resist the ailment but nourishes it. I believe that viruses and microbes can be regarded as body's corpsmen. Infections are one of the greatest natural benefits, which we simply cannot use. It is known that many people begin feeling better after "cold"! Natural Hygienists are "somehow" familiar with the fact that immune deficiency, which leads to a disease, occurs with the only purpose - to let friendly microbes work in our body to clean it from microbe forage that the body cannot eliminate in another way.

Natural Hygiene doesn't offer any particular "antiviral remedy", there is no need for it. Natural Hygiene proceeds from the statement that the disease is not an enemy, it is our friend. There is no sense in fighting it, we should collaborate with it. Therefore Natural Hygienists help the disease through the appliance of mostly raw or completely raw vegan diet, rest, one-day fasting and hygienic procedures to achieve a healing crisis or, in simple words, acute condition of chronic disease. Then fasting is prescribed, until the complete disappearance of crisis symptoms. It is clear that in future a patient should avoid unhealthy lifestyle that led him or her to such condition.

As a result of fasting active detoxication of the body from its own inner waste takes place, as if the body eats itself. Fasting is such a universal and comprehensive method that it is impossible to add something else to it. The famous American writer Upton Sinclair, the promoter of vegetarianism and fasting, fairly noted that it is almost a panacea. Only in the course of complete fasting the self-dilution (autolysis) of dead cells and protein mass increases drastically. In this case there is no need for help from bacteria and viruses. They are removed by the body on its own, since under these conditions it turns the immune defense mechanismus on. That is why such a persistent disease as syphilis at any stage is completely cured by fasting for two-three weeks without any antibiotics. It concerns all viral diseases, not excluding AIDS. Let those who have ears hear!...

As we know, the virus, which penetrates into our body, faces two types of defense: antibodies that neutralize viruses meeting them already on the way to a cell, and a well-known interferon produced by cells of almost all tissues. It defeats viruses that already penetrated into cell. As can be concluded from above mentioned, the body has no wish to fight and doesn't want to take part in a battle so persistently imposed by physicians. The body "knows" what a physician has no idea of: microbes and viruses are NOT enemies and there is no reason to defeat friends!

Medical science knows that the ability to produce interferon significantly vary according to general condition of the body and that it decreases when overcooling, nervous exhaustion and the absence of minimum required amount of vitamins in foods take place. Exactly in those difficult and dangerous minutes when a weakened body is attacked by "enemies" - microbes and viruses. But why our wise Nature invented such an imperfect body that stops its defense just in the most dangerous moment? Paradox! According to Natural Hygiene there is no paradox at all. Nature just sets priorities in such a way: the first, the main and the most serious danger for the body is intoxification of its inner environment that can be cleaned only by microorganisms or fasting.

Naturopathic experience proves that therapeutic fasting can defeat any infection without remedies. One of the most prominent physicians of our time, candidate of medical science G.A. Voitovich (from Minsk) more than 10 years ago in his book "Heal yourself on your own. Therapeutic Fasting in Questions and Answers" wrote about AIDS: "If we consider the fact that fasting reconstructs the immune barrier, i.e liquidates body's immune deficiency, it is reasonable to try to cure this disease with fasting and diet therapy"

What was said by G.A. Voitovich in medical language, and in addition too delicately (to avoid a strong biting and devouring critic from his fellow-physicians) can be translated into Natural Hygiene language. So this "reasonable to try" can be interpreted as "switching off" of immunity because it is not necessary and there is no need to call such "switching off" immune deficiency.

If the body needs immunity it has it. And if we witness immune deficiency it means that the body doesn't need it at the moment. What the body needs is its absence not to interfere with the work of viruses and microbes that clean our long-suffering body. The attempts to increase immunity artificially and stimulate it as well as the war with a disease take place because of misunderstanding of a real role of bacteria and viruses for our body. It is just a war in vain  

Sooner or later it will become clear that we should bless our microbe and viral diseases: they represent typical healing crises. But it is necessary to use these crises in the only right way: fast during several days until disappearance of acute condition. That will be a real help for natural body's strength during self-healing with the help of microbes and viruses. Someday civilized world will learn it as it learned to use soap or toothbrush. But apparently, we have to wait a little since science develops and ignorance grows.

Do you believe that Natural Hygiene can win?

Ideas of Natural Hygiene will finally lead to a radical change of views on immunity. It will inevitably happen and I think it will happen in the nearest future - under pressure of threatening circumstances. We see a world-wide AIDS epidemic, which affected dozens of millions. New viruses are coming and specialists already predict them. Once a physician ironically asked me on one of my public lectures held in Moscow

- Are you really sure that your point of view will ever win?

- Of course it will, I answered, after a dangerous epidemic or bacteriological war it would turn out that our opponents became extinct and there would nobody to argue with.

Natural Hygiene is gradually penetrating into life of civilized countries. Many get a significant advantage of skipping daily a breakfast, or fast for 36 hours once in a week (for example they don't eat starting from Friday evening until Sunday morning and drink only water). Unfortunately, diabetics are almost never told that after a "vegetable day" (consisting only of salads) the endurance of carbohydrates significantly increases and it becomes possible not to cut them down so strictly. 25 years of practicing as a diet instructor on raw vegan diet let me say it with enough confidence.

Those who never tried to live according to Natural Hygiene laws believe that it is hard and miserable. But, in fact, it is the opposite. Naturists (raw foodists) are not only healthier but also more optimistic. Australian Natural Hygienist Kennett Jeffrey wrote that we need to cultivate the art of positive thinking, when you consider health from the natural viewpoint, you develop positive constructive and optimistic views on life. You get rid of fear of impendent diseases that became an inevitable companion of real ailments and miseries.

True Naturopathy (Natural Hygiene) will never become out of date since this is a science of the future.

Alexander Chuprun, 2001

Interviewed by Olga Kineeva. Magazine "Matritsa", Nr. 1, 2001