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Here it is important for the person to stop wasting energy, and to rest and sleep more. THIS IS A CRUCIAL PHASE, and if the person resorts to stimulants of any kind, he will abort and defeat the regenerative intent of the body. It is important that the person has patience and just wait it out, and after a while he will get an increasing strength that will exceed what he felt before he began the new program. Success in recovery or improvement of health hinges upon the core understanding of this point—REALIZING that the body using its main energies in more important internal ways and NOT wasting it in external work involving muscle movements. Be wise, take it easy and relax. Just coast in your work and social obligations until you’re out of the woods.

As one continues on the improved diet and gradually raises the food quality, interesting symptoms begin to appear. The body begins a process called “retracing”. The cellular intelligence reasons something like this: “Oh! Look at all those fine materials coming in. How wonderful now, we have a chance to get rid of this old garbage and build a beautiful new house. Let’s get started immediately. Let’s get this excess bile out of the liver and the gall bladder and send it to the intestines for elimination. Let’s get this sludge moving out of the arteries, veins, and capillaries. These smelly, gassy, brain stupefying masses have been here too long—out with them! These arthritic deposits on the joints need cleaning up. Let’s get these irritating food preservatives, aspirins, sleeping pills and drugs out of the way, along with these other masses of fat that have made life so burdensome for us for so long.”

During the first phase (called catabolism), the accent is on elimination or breaking down of tissue. The body begins to clean house - in short, to remove the garbage deposited in all the tissues. Wastes are discarded more rapidly than new tissue is made from the new food. This becomes evident as weight loss.

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