Dr. Oscar Vargas-Machuca E. MD
Dr. Oscar Vargas-Machuca E., M.D., discovered Alen & Eveliza in the mid 1970's.
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The discovery of Alen and Eveliza (page 2)
I am a clinical doctor who has practiced conventional medicine for 30 years and who is very fond of holistic medicine.
Throughout my professional practice, I have seen human pain caused by many different illnesses, such as involution
problems, degenerative, proliferate and parasitic problems and infections in a human community living in the center of the Republic of Ecuador.
Within this profuse variety, we have often found out that there is a persistent pattern of health problems that recurs constantly and that gets alarmingly worse from ages 30 or 35 onward. These overwhelming health failures have been related to diverse causes, such as the lack of appropriate hygenic-dietetic practices, toxic substances like alcohol and tobacco; overcrowded living conditions, and promiscuity; low-nutritional-value and contaminated food, and environmental toxic substances caused by air and water pollution. Such diversified problems cannot be solved only by means of medical advice, diagnosis and appropriate treatment. The striking thing is that medicine cannot eliminate these health problems, as hard as it may try, or even lead to an average standard of good health and public welfare, in spite of extensive research projects and of acceptable medical aid.
Not even modern medicine is good enough
This situation poses a grim scene inasmuch as medicine cannot provide the necessary relief, paradoxical as it may seem. The medical doctor faces difficult circumstances and to correct them, his treatment is only based on the few results of the clinical laboratory, with very little help from other types of tests like X rays and a small-sized therapeutic arsenal. However, the M.D. can sometimes overcome a variety of long-term health problems, having such bizarre symptoms and signs that are still difficult even for that modern and advanced science available in countries of high scientific level where benefits are still mediocre in spite of the result of research both in relation to diagnosis and treatment.
What is even worse, we can never tell the patient: "You are cured, and if you follow my advice you will probably never get sick again". If we ever hint at this statement, the patient will take it with a grain of salt for he knows from experience that sooner or later he will have to come back to the hospital with the same ailment or with others he has acquired.
Seen from this perspective of experience, medical practice looks bleak and for the practitioner it represents a heavy burden of anxiety that, however full of good intentions, does not involve satisfactory professional practice. Can the reductionist physician not lead the sick person to a steadily, healthy life through the years and provide him or her with a healthy body even in old age so as to end his or her life decently rather than trailing illnesses which are euphemistically called "degenerative", meaning thus that we should fatalistically accept them as a natural payment for prolonged survival, labeling them with such names as arthritis, arthrosis, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, emphysema, cardio-respiratory deficiency, nephritis, nephrosis, deafness, cataract, etc.? In other words, pathology abounds in so-called diseases of old age which medicine can hardly heal, limiting itself to therapeutic palliative action administered in either clinics or hospitals.
Concerning my practice, medical experience awoke in me the curiosity to discover if our species has to be periodically subjected to very different diseases, only ameliorated by conventional medicine through underpinning (not curing) the sick person with varied drugs to help him or her reach old age. We could also think that our species is hopelessly moving towards close-by extinction by degradation of its genetic potential, a fate that cannot be avoided however hard conventional medical science fights it. These and other conclusions can be reached but we would always be in the middle of the depressing situation.
We could approach the problem from a different perspective, such as broadly interpreting the performance of the human machine in reference to its general flaws and its behavior in an artificial environment where it does not belong; we could expand our knowledge of biochemistry, fortunately already wide, and profit from this science by means of the conscious and practical interpretation of that complex and overwhelming mechanism called life, better still, healthy life.
Discovering through research
Through the research carried out in the central part of our country, my wife and I gradually realized that there was a common denominator among all patients. They exhibited a persistent nutritional deficit due to the fact that most people do not eat enough of the appropriate nutrients; thus, their bodies gradually deteriorate through the years. Of course this observation is well-known; you don't have to be a nutritionist to know this, so the next step could be to conclude that this phenomenon occurs only in extremely poor social classes. In this case, well-to-do or affluent people would enjoy good health.
We decided to test whether this simple assumption could be indiscriminately applied. To this effect several human groups were studied, from both the city and the country-side.
At first, we searched for several months in order to accept or reject this hypotheses, and we discovered a very strange circumstance: the most affluent human groups suffered from involutive, degenerative and even proliferative diseases more frequently than the underprivileged human groups.
This peculiar paradox led us to carry out a much deeper study in order to scientifically explain these contradictory results.
We started by doing research on different human groups, located in the city or the country-side. The first group can be called the urban group, made up of well fed people thanks to higher living standard and higher income. The other human group, settled in the country-side, will be called rural group, having less income and less comfortable living conditions.
The research project would cover a general clinical examination with special attention to external signs and a gross biochemical control consisting of 17 tests, plus urine and stool controls. Urban patients would come to the consulting office, but for rural patients we had to go to Telimbela, Bol’var province 130 km away from civilization where we traveled in a van furnished with a traveling clinical laboratory.
Urban patients had more health complications
After two years of research and gathering of abundant data, we indisputably confirmed that the urban population displayed greater health complications than the rural population did, that the organic disorders had mostly a metabolic character, and that generally speaking, the urban patients had grown older than their chronological ages unlike the rural group where the aging marks appeared later. In the country-side population, most of the diseases were related to parasitism, work-related accidents and in most cases, the ailments were linked to the ingestion of poor-quality alcohol which destroyed especially their liver and their brain. Besides, their diet lacked protein.
But the strangest thing in this study is that in spite of the poor economic situation in these rural towns, and in spite of social practices as harmful as alcohol consumption, diseases are not so critical and are usually overcome without the aid of conventional medicine. Above all, women, who do not smoke or consume alcohol, enjoy remarkable health. In general they lead a life free from disease, obesity, arthritis, arteriosclerosis, and diabetes. Most die in old age, in command of all their sensory faculties such as sight, hearing, smell, feeling and taste, which are surprisingly well preserved.
A very interesting aspect was discovered through these studies: namely, the endocrine predominance in these rural towns, in people engaged in agricultural labor, where the dominant action of the somatotrophic hormone was made evident, thus being characterized as somatotrophic hormone - dependent.
The human population under study in the urban area where nutrition predominantly relies on sugar and starch shows a biochemical state of special instability in the levels of blood glucose, with intense increase and decrease of insulin which creates a state of homeostatic unbalance. This group was then called endogenous insulin-dependent.
In view of this interesting situation, we focused our research on the study of nutrition so as to discover what factor or factors were missing and how much influence they had upon health. The search intended to find if what we lack is the necessary protein converted into amino acids or what other elements are missing in our food whose lack bring about these health problems, as well as what toxic substances from the environment, whether in the water or in the air, could be playing a part. In short, our future search seemed very difficult in its intention to discover the true unknown factor in this important problem.
What was missing?
We started the study through the exploration of 4 essential elements; selenium, molybdenum, zinc, and a sulfur-containing amino acid, methionine. But we soon discovered that people were not only wanting in such elements, but that in general terms, the lack of essential factors was completely random and very diverse. In general, patients evidenced a polisyndromic deficiency state, though diversified according to the exploration we did into different social layers. Thus, we would find protein deficiency in some cases, vitamin insufficiency in others and lack of minerals in special groups. There was a remarkable drop in the caloric intake (carbohydrates and fats) in still other patients. This complex panorama led us to a dead-end alley since we could not tabulate the different syndromes and group them together statistically, because all the patients manifested interwoven deficiencies, making signs and symptoms very confusing.
All these anomalous results made us believe that the partial study of nutritional deficiencies could not be done on human beings but that we should expand our study to, for example, animals, where we could regulate and even eliminate essential nutrition factors despite of ethical concerns in order to observe the somatic changes displayed by a given species under study in its external aspect as well as in their internal organs. To accomplish this pursuit, a 5 hectare (1 hectare = 2.471 acres) farm was bought in the Patate area, Tungurahua Province, 35 km away from Ambato City. Large special sheds were built in order to house 5,000 chickens; the species chosen for the research. The reason for the selection were: first, this animal grows up relatively quickly and we could have very specific information on the somatic changes in the 8 weeks and secondly, once the research was completed, the animals could be sold in the market so as to finance the research which would have been too costly otherwise. Also, sheds were built for rabbits and "cuyes" ranging from 100 to 200 specimens.
In this study we intended to carry out a control of the suppression of different essential factors in a systematic and progressive way as well as a control of the increment of such elements in order to verify the transformations in the animals' health situation and chart the various effects these changes produced.
Handling the animals, keeping control of their feeding and their diseases turned out to be boring, difficult and complicated work which took all the time we had and allowed for a close contact with them so that we wouldn't miss the smallest change in their behavior and physical appearance; the weighing, the exploration of skin and feathers, the muscular potency and other diverse neurogenic manifestations were controlled and tabulated several times during the day.
After five years of work, we had gathered statistical data in which the different insufficiencies displayed by the chicken could be easily compared to the signs and symptoms exhibited by the human species.
Bad health had connection to the diet
In conclusion, the different nutritional deficiencies result in the varied health problems we all know; the number of infectious diseases either viral or bacterial increased in our animals, and involutive or degenerative disorders were shown soon. We could create very unhealthy animals with a short life-expectancy at will only by means of reducing the amount of certain essential elements in their diet.
Once we had acknowledged that ill health was related to an unsatisfactory diet, we decided to explore further by supplying the animals with so-called "good food". We started to feed them plenty of vitamins, proteins, fats, minerals and caloric compounds. It was not until some months later that we came to a strange realization; even though the animals had become strong, robust and the sicknesses had obviously decreased, we realized that in approximately week 6, the animals changed their metabolism, became very voracious and grew fat rapidly, their heart weakened and many died from exudative dropsical diabetes or from apparently unwarranted sudden death.
These strange, paradoxical consequences led us to believe that the diet we were supplying to them did not have the necessary nutrients or that their proportion was not perfectly balanced, however closely we followed the instructions of chicken-rearing manuals.
Of course, anybody with a critical sense could say that the observations were only the result of well-known nutritional deficiencies and that the food handling was not appropriate. However, the same cautions were taken and the same results were obtained in other chicken farms.
In view of this situation, we decided to produce a kind of food in which nutrients would be in a perfectly natural state. So proteins were extracted from several cereals, the starch was eliminated in order to degrade the protein molecules to more digestible limits by way of special procedures. Vitamins were obtained by fermenting different plant substances up to a point at which they could be called provitamins, in this way allowing intestinal bacteria to do the conversion of usable vitamins. Minerals were obtained from different natural sources such as phosphorus from bones. The other macrominerals were easy to get, but microminerals were not.
At first, starting with simplistic ideas recommended by other authors' experiences, we combined: phosphates, oxides, carbonates and nitrates from diverse trace elements. The result were terrible since this dosage had to be within very narrow limits; only a few milligrams' deviation would cause highly lethal effect, as was shown by the thousands of dead chickens throughout the long months of this trial.
These experiments taught us that nature does not work with simple molecular compounds but with extremely complex ones. This forced us to use plant substances containing many trace elements. After studying several species of plants, we found that the most suitable for our aim was the sea algae. We did research on hundreds of them and selected the sea algae durvillea padina and gelidium bory, which were processed and concentrated by way of special means and which provided us with a compound having molecules of microelements in highly chelated unions.
Discovering the right source
Carbohydrates were cut back, we used animal fats, not vegetable. When this type of food was ready (this took about 2 years), we gave it to the animals and the result was spectacular; chickens, rabbits and "cuyes" did not show the marks of nutritional deficiencies and the mineralized powder's dosage could be absolutely random. Even with great intake, no toxicity was shown.
At this point, we considered that we had obtained a very remarkable nutrient which, from a simplistic point of view, was nothing other than highly concentrated food that produced apparently miraculous results. We had never seen chickens with such physical development; on week 8 they had an average weight of 7 to 8 pounds, their fat - muscle correspondence was amazing. They were no longer the obese chickens we had at the beginning of the experiment, but animals exhibiting an abundant and proportional muscular mass. The ever-frequent and diverse diseases displayed in the previous control disappeared; infections, high fever, chronic respiratory disease, pullorum disease, cholera, laryngotracheitis, leucosis complexes, aspergillosis (even parasitary ones such as coccidiosis, hectoparasitosis and helminthiasis) were all gone. Moreover, mycloplasmosis was controlled with small doses of antibiotics. Even vitamin deficiency and deficiency diseases such as peroral diseases and food toxicosis so common before, were not manifested. These remarkable conditions prevailed for a long time even though animals were exposed to adverse environments like exposure to heat or cold, to water deprivation or to states of great neurogenic tension. All these circumstances did not give rise to the stress risks that had been so common before.
A remarkable experiment
Later, we carried out an interesting experiment: we bought laying hens discarded by chicken farms because they had already finished their laying cycle. They were submitted to our new diet and the somatic changes appeared soon. It was interesting to see how skinny, non feathered animals in terribly poor condition became lively, grew new feathers, improved nails and beak, gained weight, physical skills, and all illustrated new vitality. Amazingly, they also started to lay eggs, frequently for one year or more. This demonstrated that the animals had gone through a true rejuvenation.
In view of these remarkable and surprising results obtained during 5 years of work at the farm, having completed the nutritional experimentation under study as well as the gathering of the theoretical and practical efforts involved, we felt that we were ready for the next adventure; making this nourishment fit the human being.
Once the research at the farm was completed, after having endlessly tested the unique nutritional value of the nutrient we had found, the next step was to make it appropriate for human use, but with the characteristics and advantages we had noticed in almost 150,000 chickens, the hundreds of rabbits and "cuyes" we had used for our research in 5 years of experimentation.
The compound which was not yet called Alen (Special and Natural Food) had to have certain characteristics: it had to be completely natural, to have all the nutritional negative-entropy capacity, to taste (if not nicely) at least tolerably, to be easily handled, to be stable and to have a high degree of sterilization.
We spent 7 years in accomplishing this task, too long a time for the reader perhaps, but we had to face many difficulties, of which many seemed insuperable at the time since the compound was very unstable and its components were easily degraded in the preparation process. We had to solve many different industrial problems, like the selection of the grains and sea algae, hydrolization, fermentation, thermal timing of degradation, concentrating, sifting, etc.; that is, physical, chemical and biological processes which became industrial secrets for the most part.
Dr. Oscar Vargas-Machuca E., M.D.
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