This NY Times article that quotes the World Health Organization claims there are 24 million Americans with diabetes—a gain of 15% in two years.

Wow! At that rate of gain I guess we can expect just about everybody to develop this modern day scourge within a couple of decades.

Well, maybe not… If you review this lengthy article by Dr. Reams I think you will experience some good, clear thinking that diabetes is just another degenerative disorder that doesn’t have to dominate our lives. Actually, as the interview starts off Reams is responding to questions about hypoglycemia. Then about midway you notice him shift to diabetes and, instead of spreading doom & gloom, he does the opposite—he explains the good results he has found with pancreas support.

Simple pancreas support—some easy shifts in body chemistry and a lot of green drinks.

No, he is not saying “nothing to it.” He is saying that there is a Godly way out of this horrible condition that the medicos treat with injections and drugs—but which marches steadily forward toward a foregone, and most unwelcome, conclusion.

By the way, Reams strongly warns consultants that they must avoid treating diabetics unless it is done under the care of a MD. Consultants need to be aware that they are stepping squarely on the toes of “practicing medicine without a license” anyime they tell a client to stop whatever a MD is telling them to do. This could not be more clear than in a case where a consultant innocently tells a client to stop insulin. That, my friends, is between the client and their doctor.

However, in a perfect world there are at least a few people who will read Dr. Reams’ words and think for themselves—without the fear that the word diabetes strikes into the hearts of many.

[Editor's note: From time to time we plan to include guest columns by notables in the RBTI world. Today's column is by Michael Olszta, who is currently guiding his second class in a year-long RBTI structured online training course. Anyone desiring information about joining the third class, proposed for September this year, or the fourth class, proposed for January '09, can contact olszta (at) comcast.net.]

2008 RBTI Online Class - Special Article On Sleep - June 10, 2008

The below linked article about Americans not getting enough sleep was in the newspaper recently and I just wanted to pass it on to everyone because I know that this is a problem among many and sometimes is the cause behind people not responding to the RBTI program OR the cause behind the program not working AS WELL as IT SHOULD. The article is spot on RIGHT! One statement jumped right off the page:

“Insufficient sleep is associated with a number of diseases and conditions, such as diabetes, obesity and depression.”

I know personally how not getting enough sleep can affect the RBTI program. And I just wanted to pass this article off to my class members so that you all keep this part of “the program” in mind. We emphasize fluids, foods, supplements, exercise, etc. but do we ever emphasize sleep? I can hear Dr. Manthei’s voice loud and clear about what a lot of people need to get well:

” You’ve got to slow them down!!!”

How true! The term “burning out” or “burn out” is LITERALLY TRUE! We are learning about ENERGY in the RBTI, the gain and loss of energy. We have just learned about Einstein’s 3 equations describing HEAT and ELECTRICITY and MATTER. And when we use more energy than we take in, we literally, I mean LITERALLY BURN OUT!!! The fire is too hot for too long, breaking down the matter to the point where there’s nothing left to burn and it happens: BURN OUT!

Lack of sleep may not have ever killed anyone but it certainly helps the dying process move along more quickly. If you and/or the people you are working with are not responding as well as you or they would like, check the sleep habits. Do they go to bed and get up at the same time everyday? And if they do, are they getting at least 7 hours of sleep with 8 being more likely what they need? And, do they take a day off each week to recharge their batteries? Rest is important and sleep is important. It is especially important in the beginning stages of a program and often is the one thing that is hard for people to get into the habit of doing because it is the easiest thing to skip. Anyway, I’m sounding like a broken record. Enjoy the article!

Michael Olszta

The headline reads: Drink more coffee and live longer. (Honestly, it claims that…and the coffee sellers are making sure there are plenty of headlines)

Thankfully, the truth seekers are already asking the questions about “who funded this study?” and “do all the studies say the same thing?”.  Perhaps we can quickly discount this obviously self-serving  study (well, a study is what they call it) and place it in the same circular file that we tossed the “liquor is good for you” and “chocolate has lots of antioxidants” studies of years past.  One wonders how many  new users  the soft-drug sellers get per dollar when comparing the “study” method of winning converts versus standard old advertising tricks.

You see, I am old enough to remember the “doctors” coming on TV and explaining how Chesterfields (or whatever brand) were good for your health.  To say the cigarette companies were brazen is truly an understatement.  Ultimately, they were exposed as outright liars and deceivers.

Much as savvy MDs warn about stopping prescription drugs too quickly, Dr. Reams was wary about having heavy coffee drinkers stop abruptly.  He knew how powerful a drug caffeine really is.  However, he did not see much harm coming to the person past middle age having one cup of “Brazilian tea” in the morning.  BT is nothing more than a cup of coffee so weak you can see the bottom of the cup through it.

Smart man, that Carey Reams.

The reports flow in from newsrooms around the country…

Tim Russert, 58, the longtime host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and the network’s Washington bureau chief, collapsed at work and died of an apparent heart attack.

There is a common thread: no one seems to have a clue about how Tim’s death came to be. As Jeffrey Olgin, a cardiologist at the University of California being interviewed by Newsweek said, “assessing risk is a very, very difficult thing. I can’t look at you and say you have a 10 percent chance of dying from this.”

If the experts cannot tell who is at risk and who is not, then who can?

Carey Reams quietly and determinedly taught that anyone who truly learns RBTI can predict heart attacks—even years into the future.  Further, he claimed, his recommendations concerning proper water drinking and mineral supplementation guaranteed that heart attack risk could be reduced to a negligible value.

Reams’ students insist he is spot on. As they explain it, the water regimen removes the excess salt and nitrogen from the blood. This allows a cleaner, easier-pumping blood and also a slow, but steady, artery plaque removal.  What is not to like?

We’ll miss you, Tim.  You were brilliant at your job.  In a perfect world you would have interviewed Dr. Reams.

So reports the New York Times today.  The article, drawing from an official Florida document, published by such a distinguished newspaper, sent me looking for my dog-eared copy of Dr. Reams’ Choose Life Or Death for a review of his thoughts about drugs.

And there are many thoughts—Reams clearly knew the danger of all drugs, not just the illegal drugs that so worry the public.  A careful read of CLOD leaves little doubt that Reams saw the drug industry as perhaps the biggest single threat to the life and health of all Americans.  This one quote may sum the issue up best: “The drug establishment is trying to make people stay on drugs even when many medical doctors know that no drug can heal.” (page 102)

While the New York Times has little to fear, Carey Reams reaped scorn, derision, and even jail from powerful interests for his unrelenting message that drugs are deadly.  I wonder if the Times will have the courage to report the news stamped on the other side of Dr. Reams’ coin: health exists in direct ratio to the restoration of the mineral supply of our depleted bodies.  Yes, we can get well.

by refract


Recently, I was re-watching a short video clip of Challen Waychoff teaching a Level II RBTI class.  When I heard him quote Dr. Reams, my ears perked up.  Waychoff said, “Dr. Reams personally told me that everyone should go to a retreat once every twenty years and get a tune-up.  Then they can go about their lives without worry about their health.”

Where are those retreats to service “everyone”?  Here are the few I am aware of:

• Waychoff (740-695-9188) runs a periodic retreat, but only for a single person or couple at a time…
• Christian Health Education Ministry (731-584-2153) operates a retreat in Tennessee that appears geared toward larger groups…
• Promise Outreach (417-796-2659) has a retreat in Missouri that I’ve been told focuses on the most desperately ill, not those needing a “tune-up”…

That’s it!  We’re talking about facilities to handle a few dozens of people when we need to be thinking in terms of thousands.  What are we to do?  If we can’t have the retreats now, right now, as we need them, is there an alternative until they are developed.

A thought that has been rolling around in my head comes from Jesus’ instruction that “where two or more gather in my name, I am there.”  Jesus was talking about his church and the thought was that we don’t need a mega-chuch with thousands of members if our desire is to come together for spiritual growth and to worship.  A few can do the job

Could the same rule apply to retreat work?  Do we need the “resort hotel” style retreat in every instance?  Could instead one person go to another person’s home and help them work through the routines that might be utilized at a retreat?  Could the two bring in a few more RBTIers and jointly work on testing, menus, meal prep, lemon water schedules, supplement needs, and whatever?

I’m thinking here of the cancer patients who work their way back to health with the Gerson Program.  The Gerson people have found from long experience that they cannot accept a solitary patient into their retreat system unless a caregiver accompanies the patient.  The rationale is that there is so much work involved in the juice making, meal prep, and ancillary items that a sick person can’t possibly do it by himself.  Although the primary focus at the retreat is to heal the patient, almost as much effort is given to teach the caregiver how to continue the therapy once the brief retreat stay is over.

This idle dream of a sort of DIY “Club RBTI” was refreshed when Greg Bean, one of the RBTI forum members, prepared an interactive Google map designed to show the location of RBTI “people” wherever they may be in the world.   Networking and social groups have become hot in the Internet age because people of common interests are discovering new ways to get together so as to pursue their goals further.  One of Reams’ dreams was that RBTI clubs would spring up and conduct weekly meetings with hands-on instruction including such as meals and green drink.  His thought was that health food stores might be willing to sponsor such events, and even provide space, if they were allowed to stock and sell the specific minerals that are required for the RBTI program.

I’ve heard tales of people who were delighted to make new friends because they decided to stop in town B and share a cup of coffee with someone who enjoyed a common hobby or other goal—all this while traveling from town A to C.  Perhaps RBTI could use some of these new concepts to grow enough to start helping the multitudes.

We do need new ideas until those retreats start springing up like mushrooms.  For instance, diabetes is overwhelming the nations and drugs are not providing the needed relief.  People need to relearn how to live and Dr. Reams’ revolutionary concepts about such as diabetes may be just what they want to study.  Retreats and clubs could help.

by refract


Many in the RBTI community are convinced that Dr. Reams never truly taught the computation of reserve energy.  A thought that has circulated over the years is that he kept the actual calculations close to his chest because he liked the idea that it would be difficult for anyone to maneuver around him and establish their own variant “School of RBTI” as long as they were dependent on him.  Before you poo-poo that idea you may want to study the now-defunct “Healthology” which was founded by people with a very thin understanding of RBTI.  For instance, they tried to create a healing empire without knowing that potassium is an anion.  Thank goodness they are long out of business.

That is not to say that people willing to calculate their version of reserve energy have all disappeared from the scene.  For instance, I have three distinct calculation methods in my files that have accumulated over the years.  There is also an ongoing school of “RBTI” that routinely teaches how to compute reserve energy.  A problem is that all four of the methods give results that are dreadfully at odds with the known existing examples that have survived from Dr. Reams’ active years.

One bright spot on the horizon is that for the past several years Dr. Beddoe at Advanced Ideals has claimed that he was taught reserve energy calculation by Dr. Reams and that he plans to teach the method to his students one day.   Woo-Hoo! is all I can say and I seriously doubt I will be the only one cheering if he comes through.

Meanwhile, I think it behooves us to understand as much as we can about higher reserve energy, which is not so much that jumping out of bed and lifting the world feeling as perhaps the oomph that keeps our organs and cells positioned to do maximum work.   When it came to everyday energy Reams spoke of it as akin to a checking account into which we could dip as desired.  Reserve energy he considered much as a savings account we need to leave alone and let grow for a rainy day.

Much, both clear and confusing, is said about reserve energy in the Alphabetical Reference Manual (ARM) which one of the commentors mentioned a few days ago.   Reams made it very clear that a person at the 4% reserve energy level is at the point of no return.  Obviously, whatever we may do to injure our health we do not want to come anywhere close to that 4% reading.

We are all aware that a severely intoxicated person can abruptly die.  Although many cases of death by intoxication are due to vomit entering the lungs, there are other cases where the person simply dies without the stomach successfully ejecting the poisonous alcohol.  It may be fair to think of such people as having succeeded in their quest to reach 0% reserve energy.

Law enforcement agencies have developed a series of field tests that can estimate the intoxication level of drivers.  Here are a few chores they sometimes require suspect drivers to perform:

• recite the alphabet;
• count backwards;
• line-walking;
• touching finger-to-nose;
• walk heel-to-toe;
• balance on one foot at a time;
• touch fingers-to-thumb;
• bend forward and backward with your eyes closed.

Logic says that a non-intoxicated person having extreme difficulty with any of the field sobriety tests probably has nervous system impairment.  This line of thought appears to be validated by neurologists who study the gait of patients to help diagnose which of many competing nervous sytem disorders they may have.   Interestingly enough, Dr. Reams taught that various types of brain damage could each in turn cause one to fall in entirely different directions. Is it possible—just possible—that a series of similar observation style tests could help a RBTI consultant quietly evaluate a person’s reserve energy?

Hopefully, in future blog entries we can explore reserve energy from many different angles as we patiently wait for a calculation method to be perfected that the entire RBTI community finds acceptable.

That’s what the man said when my phone rang.  What people, I wondered?

“Those people who come on the RBTI forum and seem to be clueless,” he explained.

I’ve known Mr. X for a few years now and I have much confidence that he really can help newcomers.  So I queried him as to why he didn’t just contact those who appeared most confused about RBTI and offer his services.

Mr. X was quick to explain why that was not a good idea.  ”They will just think I am trying to hustle business and ignore me,” he responded.   My encouragements that he should make contact gradually fell silent.

Suddenly he said, “But you could let them know what I can do for them and you can explain that I don’t charge for phone calls when someone is merely seeking direction.”   Well, I happen to know that Mr. X does charge a modest fee to his clients when they call in a set of analysis numbers and want a full RBTI consultation.  So we talked about that.  And, yes, I admit that I have sometimes passed his name and contact info to someone who seemed to be hopelessly floundering.  However, in the interests of fairness to all of the RBTI community I don’t think it wise for me to serve as a regular agent for any particular consultant.

We struggled for an answer for a while and it suddenly occurred to me that I could do a radio-style interview with Mr. X.  Such an audio segment could be posted online where the RBTI-perplexed could hear Mr. X speak his message without anyone worrying about a fee schedule popping up.  A problem is that Mr. X and I are five states apart and it is not likely we will be in the same recording studio any time soon.  An alternative I have been reading about, although much lesser audio quality, involves recording a long distance call and I hope to undertake that learning curve before too long.

Mr. X said he is ready.  I’m already thinking about how much good may come to the RBTI community when short audio “interviews” with not just Mr. X, but other senior RBTI consultants, start coming online.   Stay tuned.

PS: If you are floundering, contact me and I’ll put you in touch with the honorable Mr. X.

DID PARADE MAGAZINE GO FAR ENOUGH?
by admin


Today’s PARADE magazine has an article by Dr. Ranit Mishori, Do you need this surgery?

It is really nice to see a mainstream doctor seriously question the 70 million operations Americans will undergo this year.   A cornerstone of Dr. Reams’ RBTI is that he bluntly challenged whether most operations were necessary in the first place.  Let’s go through a few of the procedures mentioned by Dr. Mishori…

• “Sham knee surgery may be as effective as the real thing”.  Oh, how Dr. Reams would have agreed to this as he handed out Min-Col tablets that he knew would rebuild arthritic joints from the inside out.
• “90% of slipped-disk sufferers will get better with time”.   Again, Reams would have smiled as he thought back to the countless people he helped rapidly regain both their motion and their lives with simple calcium supplementation programs.
• “Sinus surgery (to relieve drainage)”.   There is scant record that Reams ever explicitly addressed this problem.  Quite likely he had few, if any, clients present sinus troubles as it is probable that the most basic RBTI regimen inadvertently relieved drainage problems anywhere in the body.

Alternative health practitioners can hardly fail to gain hope when they see a mainstream surgeon speak out against excessive surgery.  I’d like to think that one day Dr. Mishori will be exposed to RBTI in such a way that he will understand that even if surgery is reduced to a tenth of his vision it will still be too much.