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Can We Live 150 Years?: Your Body Maintenance Handbook

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When I bought this book probably a year ago there was about 220 reviews, 95% of them were 4 and 5 stars, I don't know how the reviews got all screwed up.

All in all, I'd say this is a great book; it's straightforward and easy to read. There's a lot of information on a lot of different types of diseases and health problems, and how a lot of different foods impact your health. I've read several books on health and fitness(ex. Living Foods for Optimum Health, Stu Mittleman's Slow Burn[Stu is a world-record breaking endurance athlete]) and damn near everything Tombak says coincides with what I've read previously. Some reviews claim he has no scientific backup, but it's kind of on the cover, next to his name, where it says "Ph.D." And in the book he goes into why he chose to study biology, anatomy and chemistry over a traditional medical school.

I'd like to address some of the more idiotic negative reviews I've seen on here, because I think they're a misrepresentation of what you really find in this book. One person says the author recommends using birch twigs to brush your teeth, and he doesn't, he mentions a group of buddhist monks or something somwhere who did use birch twigs, all he does is tell you why they did it and offers a more practical alternative. Another reviewer talks of how "silly" it is that things about your health can be indicated by your eye color(iridology)...if you saw someone with a pale face or a rash on their skin, you'd be quick to assume they were unhealthy in some way, but the idea that health could possibly impact eye color?! Proposterous!!

Anyway, be wary of the 1-star reviews, they all sound similar, one of them even posted a verbatim review of Tombak's other book.

I can't vouch for the effectiveness of EVERY remedy in the book, but I have implemented a few, like nutrition timing and food combining(don't eat your carbs with your proteins). Before I had to stuff myself to feel full, and if I wasn't stuffed I was hungry, and I'd be tired after I ate. Now I rarely get tired after eating, food feels like it digests much faster, and though I don't still feel stuffed an hour later, I'm not hungry just because my stomach's empty; satisfied.

I posted a review 1 year ago and this is my update. I now call this book my health bible. EVERY SINGLE THING THE DR RECOMMENDS IN THIS BOOK HAS WORKED FOR ME and the family and friends I have helped with The Dr's remedies. I live every day by this book. My Mother has stage 4/metastised/terminal cancer, so I spend 2-3 hours a day reading medical journals, researching health & nutrition topics and every new direction has come full circle back to what is recommended in this book. The Dr. presents the solutions but doesn't explain why they work in great detail so you don't get bogged down you just get right to the results. My Mom is in far better health than she was a year ago - she still golfs! UNEDUCATED READERS think it's crap, they're WRONG. After researching like crazy for the last year the why's are now crystal clear. This is NOT mumbo jumbo! ALL OF IT is backed by loads of scientific evidence. Research who he is/his qualifications, then Buy it, Don't judge, Do what he says (none of it can hurt you), and you will see the results too. This former head of the Center for Health Sciences in Moscow will be my Doctor for life!

I also consider the negative responses specious. Dr. Tombak's advice is both apposite and effective. Most people are not disciplined enough to follow all the advice in the book because it is replete with helpful information. However, if you glean only a handful of recommendations, such as "proper food combining" or "intestine cleansing," your body will thank you with better health and you will soon recommend this book to someone you care about.

Today the focus is on disease prevention and limiting prescribed drugs. To the reader - I implore you - educate yourself! Many non-pharmaceutical remedies work, not all are quackery. It's possible to have modern medicine coexist with common sense prevention.

Although I appreciated some of the common sense suggestions, I found myself wondering how anyone who holds down a full time job and/or takes care of a family could possibly do all the things Dr. Tombak suggests. For example, the chapter on Complete Body Cleaning recommends making your own toothpaste and using birch twigs to brush your teeth! The liver and kidney cleansing routines are so radical that I would be afraid of using them (and would have to take a week off work to accomplish them), and when I showed these techniques to my doctor she said that there were several issues that could actually be harmful to some people. In addition, the parts that I found helpful lost their credibility because of Dr. Tombak's references to "cosmic rhythms," tying certain disorders to one's astrological sign. He also generalized on health issues related to the color of one's eyes...not a very scientific standard on which to base diagnosis.
I appreciate the ideas presented and trust that this book is written with the best intentions, but for a "normal" working American I'd have to advise against purchasing this book. (BTW - I also purchased "Health from God's Garden" as recommended by another reviewer of Dr. Tombak's book, and it's even more impractical than this one....I guess I'm just not ready for re-vamping my entire life and relearning everything I've known about health maintenance to be able to follow these authors' suggestions. I'm re-selling both of these books...perhaps someone who is recovering from cancer or something can make better use of these.)

Your health, that is
Mother Nature never intended for a McDonalds at the corner, white refined flour that is great for making glue for paper mache and also juices that are heated then cooled to hold preservatives.
This book is fantastic for those that are proactive with their health and teaches us the basic understanding of how we can help ourselves
If you go to the doctor for a cold and such this book is NOT for you

This book lays it all out in a step by step form. Easy to follow and written so that the laymen can understand. Thank you, thank you. Read this book once quickly as I thought it was going to be like many others I have read. Not so! Have now gone back and read and re-read as I progress in my conversion to a better way of eating and living. It not only gives good scientific information but includes the importance of food combining, eastern medicine and help with the overall cleansing and maintaining of the body. Now I know why he calls it "Your Body Maintenance Handbook". It is a handbook for life.

IM 43 and i was wondering how many people think im in my twenties and i being follow this believes mostly because my family comes from the Peruvian Jungle were most of the natural medicines comes from,but living in the modern system corrupts you and change alots of the old good habits we used to have but this book makes me realize the true of simple life that is BRILLIANT.

This book was so informative and enlightening that I purchased an additional copy for my sister. We truly are "what we eat". If more people read this and apply it to their lives we will have much less dis-ease and negativity in the world. I highly recommend reading it!

Great book that everybody should have in their library. I tried several healing therapies and they worked like majic. I used lemon therapy which in one week desolved my kidney stone that was 12mm X 8mm in diametar, lowered my triglicerides from 263 to 70, cholesterol from 221 to 170...amazing!!!!

Last weekend my brother was admitted into the hospital with severe gastric pain. He had three doctors, a surgeon, gastro and another doctor

The last two doctors over rode the surgeon recommendations that there was tearing/hernia in the intestinal wall and just proceded to give him antibiotics and IV and hurry up and wait and they said it was this, then changed this to that, and then whos on first.

Five days had gone by and it was just getting worse, abdomen hard, but the doctors still said to wait to see if the antibiotic kicked in and "supposidly" the white blood count was getting down to normal

With these five days that have gone by, his liver, on an empty stomach for days, was sucreting bile, to help digest food that wasn't there thus he had a pump attached to remove this

Because I read this book I had somewhat of a basic understanding of how our intestinal system works, I contacted the adminstrator of the hospital and after they were defending their treatment I and gave them a biological review of what was in Mikail Tombaks books by saying they stopped the colon for five days, with that said the waste was fermenting and decaying in his system, backing into his bloodstream, and could be affecting the liver and the kidneys in given an amount of a short time

They again reviewed his chart, got him into the operating room WITHIN one hour of my phone call, the surgeon found the holes and a hernis ( he is a heavy coffee and pepsi drinker )repaired them and said that within 36 hours he would be past any hope of surviving

So on that being said, read up, you dont know who you can save