by Marsh Morrison, D.C., Ph.C., F.I.C.C.

We know that heart disease is our nation’s No. 1 killer. It’s a terrible thing to say. Even more terrible to say is this: the death rate from heart disease is increasing, not decreasing. There is something very wrong here. With all our great laboratories and research centers and modern hospital equipment, why aren’t the doctors making headway with heart disease? What are they missing?

Here more than in any other area of human disease there is indeed a Missing Link. Things which sick people need in order to get well; things being entirely missed in the usual “doctoring” methods. To start, I, for one, am not enthusiastic about heart transplants. Let’s rehabilitate the hearts we’ve got inside our chests now—there are ways to do it—and not seek foreign hearts to put inside us! As you will soon see, the body’s natural rejection mechanism refuses to accept anyone else’s organs anyway; it wants its own.

So if you have a heart problem, or a loved one has cardiac difficulties, read and understand every word that follows. Learn what to do for these ailments yourself. Learn what to avoid doing, too. The valuable self-help items set forth here have been successfully tried and retried. Learning them, you may become an expert in your own right.

WHY YOU MUST AVOID TAKING “SHOTS”

Putting first things first, you must not burden the heart with injections of any kind. After studying several thousand heart cases, I have discovered that all injectibles are an assault on the already weak and overburdened heart.

The body rejects having anything shot into it directly. To be acceptable, what’s taken into the body must first be swallowed. Then digested. Then liquefied to an absorbable state. By that time it’s already in the lower small intestines and your body’s natural selectivity is at work. The little blood-sucking vessels there do the selecting job. Note, please. They suck into your bloodstream what the blood needs and wants and can use. What isn’t compatible with your individual body chemistry they reject. The rejected nutrients pass out of your body as waste by way of the bowels or kidneys. They do not enter your bloodstream if they are not naturally consonant with the needs of your body.

The vogue of giving shots for everything (with great profits to pharmaceutical houses) has gained in favor so much that everyone has been given injections for something at some time. And the busy doctors have entirely missed an extremely important physiological factor in their shot-giving enthusiasms. The factor which they’ve missed for so many years is this: whatever bypasses the human safety-valve known as natural selectivity burdens the heart.

Don’t Bypass Natural Selectivity . . . Your Body’s Built-In Safety Valve

Let’s spell it out. Your body has an intelligence of its own. Every one of the trillion cells in your body has its own intelligence. That is why the body tends so strongly toward the normal. Give it half a chance and it gets well by itself, doctor or no doctor. Thus, when you eat anything which may be good and nutritious for you, it will have to go through several steps of inspection and physiological appraisal. If it happens to be violently poisonous, you’ll no sooner swallow it than a reverse peristalsis reflex will set in and you’ll run for the bathroom to vomit it up. If it is not so terribly poisonous, it gets swallowed all right; but then it has to pass inspection again after it gets through the valve of the stomach into the intestine, and even if it’s just halfway bad for you, the body sets up a diarrhea and it gets pushed out of your system in a hurry. That’s natural selectivity for you. It’s the way in which your system protects itself against the possibility of harmful ingredients getting inside of you.

But what happens if all this wonderful natural selectivity is bypassed by doctors who miss the point and have an injection needle in their eager hands? Whatever they are going to shoot into you may not be exactly what your blood would accept for its own. Since your individual blood chemistry is as peculiarly your own as your fingerprints, the chances of any injected matter being precisely like your own blood needs and blood wants are almost nil.

So now you’ve got the point. If the blood doesn’t have any say in selecting, with its own intelligent natural selectivity, what it gets, then it must accept what is injected into it. Good or bad, compatible or not, the blood must make do. In “making do” it throws an enormous burden on the heart. Ergo: heart dysfunctions. More injections, more heart disease. With the rising vogue in shots for everything in the doctor’s symptomatology, we have a rising incidence in heart disease.

Now you know. You know what this one researching author-doctor has learned—what he couldn’t possibly have learned if he’d been trained to give shots in the modern, conventional, scientific way.

HOW TO STOP BEING VICTIMIZED BY HEART DISEASE

While attending several thousand cases of heart disease professionally, and observing the astounding rise in coronary occlusion these past 40 years, I’ve come to some quite definite thoughts about it. Here are some do’s and dont’s that work, that actually work in reducing the incidence of this dread disease. Let us look at them one by one.

Our cardiologists explain the rise in heart disease by saying that times are tough these days—they’re full of tension. I do not believe a word of it. Four decades ago it was much tougher for everyone to make a living and the tensions were greater! Now, you can fly and hear soothing radio music and be entertained by television. Then, it was a heart-burdening effort just to get from your house to Aunt Minnie’s a hundred miles away. And the work was fierce. There was little to entertain and soothe the nerves and iron out your tensions.

Dr. Paul Dudley White says that when he was graduated from medical college he had never seen a case of coronary occlusion, nor had his colleagues. That was about 60 years ago [from publication date of 1973 for this book excerpt]. Coronary artery disease is not a condition easily missed by a doctor; so it must be concluded that there weren’t any cases around. What then happened during the past six decades to make this the country’s chief killer?

Dr. Wilfrid Shute, a Canadian cardiologist who has personally attended thousands of heart victims, thinks this is due to taking the wheat germ out of our bread-stuffs. Since the natural anti-clot factor does in fact reside in the wheat kernel presently extracted by the millers in making white flour, Dr. Shute is right. But he is not right enough. There is something else that is of incalculable importance; something that must be attended to or we cannot reasonably expect any diminution in heart disease.

THE CASE AGAINST “SHOTS”

What that something is that must be attended to is the elimination of shots. All intravenous and intramuscular injections, without exception, are a strain on the organism and a burden on the heart.

In my forty years of serving the sick and observing them with researching eyes, this is an unmistakable theory I’ve come to. Unfortunately, the theory I’ve developed about the relationship of the rising incidence of heart disease to the rising vogue of giving shots for everything is not a theory that can be buttoned up by demonstrable fact. But it is one that explains itself physiologically—and scientifically. And in the absence of any other sensible, unassailably logical explanation that can be acceptable to the scientifically oriented (and non-brainwashed) person, this one must be given deeply thoughtful consideration.

Let us reword it and make it rememberable. My theory is that heart disease has risen step by step with the rising habit of plunging shots into human beings and bypassing the system’s natural selectivity—thus burdening human hearts beyond their capacity to withstand.

The Human Skin Is Not A Pincushion

You skin was not made to have foreign matter injected into it.

It is not enough to say that the doctors who inject you with cowpox in order to keep you from developing smallpox are sincere. It is not enough to be sincere; you must also be right. And it is not physiologically right to push any disease into the body. The job of doctoring is to take away disease, not put it in. And the theory of giving you a lesser disease (coxpox) in order to keep you from getting the greater disease (smallpox) is still a theory that violates the known physiology of the human bloodstream.

We are not discussing here the toll that human kidneys pay in filtering out the heavy wastes from foreign bodies injected into the bloodstream—nor the rise in renal degenerations possibly attributable to the rising vogue in giving shots. We deal here with the heart and its dysfunctions. And it may be set down that the human heart does not thrive on shots, but suffers from them.

Except for the most extraordinary reasons, it is not good doctoring to give shots. It cannot ever be good doctoring to give a person a disease by way of injections in order to prevent his getting another. It is good doctoring to raise one’s health to the maximum level where the system naturally resists disease—all disease.

For heart cases, there are many things to do. This matter of giving shots is one ultra-important thing not to do.

HOW TO TAKE THE STEPS THAT WORK TO REPAIR A DAMAGED HEART

Now let us look at other heart factors that really work to reduce the incidence of cardiac disease and actually do repair the damaged organ, if it is still reparable.

The Case Of Henry Snyder

A case in point is that of Henry Snyder. He owned a service station and could barely trudge along a few steps because of his chest tightness and difficult breathing. He’d already been diagnosed (several ways by different doctors) but I wasn’t particularly interested in whether the label was endocarditis, myocarditis, angina pectoris or any other. I was interested in knowing that it was his heart. I was interested in the nerve supply to that ailing heart; whether the nerves were blocked by interfering pressures or were free to transmit the self healing Life Force to the organ. And I was profoundly interested in his breathing apparatus—how to improve its capacities and how to oxygenate his whole system better. Everything I was interested in was somehow different from what his “expert top doctors” had concentrated on, so it surprised Mr. Snyder when I outlined a get-well program for him.

Panting With Diaphragm In Upright Position

Step One. “Henry, can you raise your arms above your head?” I asked.

“Sure,” he said laconically.

“Now can you separate your lips and breathe in and out kind of vigorously through your open mouth?”

“Easy,” he said, doing it at once.

“Now do something else, Henry. Pull in your gut with each breath, and then let it out. I want your midriff to be going in and out as you do this panting style of breathing. It’ll be a drill to strengthen your diaphragm and make breathing easier.”

He did this and liked it. His breathing improved. That was the first step—getting oxygen into his lungs. It gave him the breath (staff) of life; he was less afraid that every heartbeat would be his last one, he could now detoxify the body.

Panting On Hands And Knees

Step Two. I instructed him to get down on his hands and knees. Resting thus on four points he was back to the “primordial position” and his diaphragm flopped more nearly into its proper place, no longer working against gravity. “Do your panting drill in this position,” I advised. It was surprisingly easy to do and he liked it. He turned his head like a contented cocker spaniel and winked at me. “I can do this all day,” he said. Exactly this was what I encouraged. “Stay in the horizontal position as long and as often as you can, Henry. You begin to overcome the effects of gravity that way, and everything works better.” I told him to hang his head and stretch the long neck muscles, something like the animal does when grazing. This separated the intervertebral discs in his neck, tended to lift pressure off nerves and feed his heart with power-impulses and self-repair energy by way of a direct nerve line to the heart, the pneumogastric.

Sway And Arch

Step Three. There were also nerve pathways to his heart from near the nape of the neck and from between the shoulder blades. So our willing patient was taught to sway his back and then arch it: sway and arch back and forth often and with vigor. He was amazed that he had the energy and breath to do it. Actually, in the four-point position it was easier for him to work his body this way than to be upright, against gravity, and do nothing at all. It was explained that this tended to free his body of nerve pressures in order to allow the self healing Life Force to flow to his heart and breathing apparatus without interference.

Rest In Knee-Chest Position

When he tired of swaying and arching he was directed to lower to his chest and rest in the knee-chest position for as long as he desired. Thus, in the first three steps, I’d taught him to strengthen his breathing muscles and get energizing oxygen into his body; taught him how to self-treat for pinched nerves which had been preventing the transmission of functional power and repair impulses to his organs; and taught him, in part thus far, how to overcome the toll that living against gravity exacted from him everyday. All this was achieved so easily and naturally that I decided to move along.

Riding A Bicycle Upside Down

Step Four. “Do you know how to take your pulse, Henry?” He did, and got an “eighty” rate. That was fast; but considering the extra flab he carried around, it was not unusual. “Now roll over on your back and kick your legs,” I counseled. He hadn’t done any exercise at all and eyed me disapprovingly. “It’s what you need,” I said firmly. On your back now, and ride an upside-down bicycle with a little speed,” I urged. This raced his heart a little, increasing the pulse a bit. “You are going to do more of this every day and with more speed each time,” I told him. “Eventually we”ll get your pulse up to about a hundred and ten. Then, if we keep it at that for three minutes, do you know what will happen? New little auxiliary vessels to the heart will start building, and that’ll take the load off the coronaries.”

How To Help Yourself Even When You Don’t Do All The Steps

Step Five. “Like most cardiacs and wheezing breathers, Henry, you’re slouching,” I pointed out to him. “I’m going to make more room for your heart in that chest of yours with what I call the Dowager’s Hump drill.” He enjoyed clasping his palms behind his back and rolling the elbows inward, thus raising his chest, strengthening the pectoral muscles and getting every vertebra in his upper spine straightened up. But not everyone is willing to do this vigorous drill. It recalled to mind the over-rich and underworked Quincy McKinnon who just wouldn’t do this or anything else I advised—except one thing. He almost devoutly loved doing the Primordial Walk (see below). For a grown man, he was crazy about walking on all fours, like a child who’s wild over a new toy.

“Must be my genetic inheritance,” he said joyously, looking up at me from hands and feet—not just hands and knees. “I guess I’m only once or twice removed from by four-legged ancestors.”

The Primordial Walk

Step Six. This is the Primordial Walk that our spoiled young man loved doing. It meant walking on all fours for real—not the hands and knees but the hands and feet. When I developed and studied this drill, I found that it returned us to our first and elemental and original position as human beings. Thus it somehow put everything in the body back into shape that could still be put back into shape—and, most exciting of all, it appeared to exercise just by itself all the muscles, ligaments, tendons and cartilages of the body. This was what the spoiled Quincy McKinnon truly loved to do on the enormous tree-rich lawns of his country home.

Now here is an explanation which perhaps I ought not give, for some readers might forego all the other steps for regaining their health and do only this one as the young man did. Our tall, very thin and wheezy patient dearly loved prancing around the grasses of his home on hands and feet. In a sense he overdid it. But since he did nothing else by way of exercise, his body (tending toward the normal as is natural for all of us) used this one drill to accomplish miracles.

STRETCH EVERY NECK VERTEBRA TO RELIEVE NERVE PRESSURES TO THE HEART AND LUNGS

With his head hanging down in the manner of grazing animals, every vertebra of the neck got a stretching, and nerve pressures to the heart and lungs were released when the vertebrae widened. With his upper spine straightened by the back-sweeping shoulders supported by his walking arms, the chest filled out and he gained weight. His muscles and ligaments grew strong. The diaphragm operated from a correct horizontal position and his breathing muscles strengthened remarkably. His thighs and legs (at the calves) filled out. With the heart stronger, the breathing easier and oxygenation better, his appetite became evident for the first time in years and he began to eat well. The Primordial Walk alone made the young man superbly well.

Back now to our service station operator, Henry Snyder. Unlike our exclusive Primordial Walk-only man, this great patient observed all the instructions and did beautifully well. Unlike the other, Henry lost weight and flattened out as he grew strong, his chest discomforts left and he breathed easier. This proved to me that the essential rightness of the Missing Link factors in doctoring was such that the same basic get-well rules applied to all still-remediable persons. (The undomesticated animal in its wild habitat is never too fat or too thin. The person who is not yet irreversibly sick can get well without the need of a time-wasting precise diagnosis. His body tends toward the normal and wants to be well. It does not await any doctor’s diagnosis—or misdiagnosis—to start its own miracle of rejuvenation when the Missing Link doctoring factors are applied.)

In order that sick people get well fast—and without the waste of possibly vital time in hunting down a precise diagnosis—the doctor need only know where the trouble is. If the patient points to his heart area, or the liver or neck or back, the doctor of the future who knows the Missing Link factors will hunt up the nerve supply to the heart or liver or neck or back. If there are pressures on such nerves (as there are likely to be in our straining and counter-gravity form of living), he will know how to release them. Then the healing power and functional energy will flow to the sick organ without interference. And since the human body tends toward the normal, the ailing part will proceed to get well without a diagnosis—which more often than not is a misdiagnosis, anyway. Then, after the specific area has been dealt with, the general Missing Link factors are applied in order to upgrade the general health, and everything that can be done for the patient will be done.

Marsh Morrison, D.C., Ph.C., F.I.C.C., is the Director of “The International Marsh Morrison Seminars of Neurological Techniques” and editor of the semi-monthly scientific newsletter. “The Marsh Morrison International Report.” Graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, with post-graduate studies at both the National Chiropractic College in Chicago and the Lincoln College of Chiropractic in Indianapolis, he has personally developed many important techniques for the treatment of a wide variety of physical ills. He conducts seminars in 35 principal cities both here and abroad, and is Visiting Professor at the Columbia Institute of Chiropractic in New York.

Excerpt from Doctor Morrison’s Miracle Body Tune-Up For Rejuvenated Health

Part II coming soon.