Nutrition and Reproductive Function

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Nutrition and Reproductive Function

It is thought that meat-containing diet makes for increased male potency. In reality this diet just intensifies sexual drive, while negatively affecting qualitative characteristics of the reproductive function.

As a result of processing with digestive ferments food in the digestive tract gets disintegrated into components that represent neutral elements, light acids, and alkalis. Some of these substances get destroyed quickly and removed out of the organism, while the rest can make either oxidizing or alkalizing effect on the internal environment of the organism (blood, intercellular substance, etc.), shifting the acid-base balance in the corresponding direction. Depending on this quality all foodstuffs are generally classified as “acidic”, “alkaline” or “neutral”. The criterion by which different foodstuffs are classified to one of these groups is not their original pH, but pH of those substances into which they get transformed inside the organism.

If the oxidizing or alkalizing impact on the internal environment that a certain kind of food produces is insignificant and of short duration the acid-base equilibrium is easily restored by the so called “buffer systems”, which transform active acids or alkalis into other substances by means of special chemical reactions.

But if a person systematically eats a certain kind of food that dramatically shifts the acid-base balance (either to the acid or to the base side), the buffer systems fail to perform their functions in full. It is a prolonged shift of this equilibrium to the acid side that is the most dangerous, though. In order to ensure proper metabolism an alkalescent environment must be maintained in the body tissues.

Meat and fish products cause the strongest oxidization of the organism’s internal environment, while vegetables, fruits and milk contribute to maintaining its alkaline condition. Even sour-tasting fruit produce an alkaline reaction as a result, since the chemically unstable acids that they contain get quickly destroyed.

Why is oxidation caused by excessive use of meat and fish so dangerous? Among other reasons is that even a slight shift of the acid-base equilibrium towards the acid side leads to settling-out and formation of deposits of not readily soluble salts of uric acid that represents one of the end metabolic products of nucleoprotein (disintegration of other proteins produce highly soluble and harmless urea).

The main sources of nucleoproteins that get into the organism with food are, too, meat and fish products. Thus, they increase concentration of uric acid salts inside the body and at the same time prevent the organism from disposing of them. Under such conditions uric acid salts get deposited on the blood vessels’ walls, in the muscular, cartilaginous, and other tissues.

Everyone heard about joint pain that occurs in case of gout. But gout is usually a result of excessive consumption of meat and fish products. And inflammations in joints take place when gout has been progressing for a long time. Its earlier symptoms are caused by forming of uric acid salts’ deposits on the walls of brain blood vessels. This leads to a narrowing of the vessels’ lumina, a deterioration of their walls’ elasticity, and — as a result — to a disruption of blood supply to the brain. Outer symptoms of this are impairment of memory, sleep disturbance, headaches, and irritability. As a result a chronic discomfort mental state develops that in its turn causes protracted emotional stresses. Sexual function collapses in this case.

If a person wants to get rid of this state he may start with switching to alkalizing “cruelty-free” diet (i.e. the one which excludes meat and fish products). This kind of diet is “pure” from physiological, bioenergetic, and ethic standpoints*. Milk and eggs contain a complete set of amino acids required by the human organism.

There are two sections of vegetative nervous system in the human organism: sympathetic and parasympathetic. These sections somewhat confront each other (have reciprocal relationships). The sympathetic section dominates supervision of the organism in stress situations, i.e. when there is a necessity to defend itself or to attack, as well as in the states of anxiety, hunger, etc. As opposed to this, the parasympathetic section prevails while the organism is at rest and relaxed.

The reproductive function is regulated by both these sections. Male’s erection ability is regulated by parasympathetic nervous structures, while the process of ejaculation — by the sympathetic ones. Predominant excitation of the parasympathetic section is favorable for erection, while that of the sympathetic one — for slackening of erection and coming of ejaculation.

This is why the state of inner peace, as well as that of satiety represents the best conditions for the reproductive system’s functioning. But emotional stress, hunger, etc. cause deterioration of physiological characteristics of the reproductive function.

As it was showed above, what gets activated in case of gout is the sympathetic section of the nervous system while the parasympathetic one gets inhibited.

All this relates not only to men but also to women. Many women have difficulties reaching orgasm due to their being in a chronic state of stress. One of their typical features is the inability to get into the proper mood and concentrate on sexual feelings during a sexual intercourse.

It is also interesting that people who do not eat meat and fish, as special fundamental research has shown [71], demonstrate 2-3 times lower fatigability during physical work. Among followers of the “cruelty-free” diet there are many outstanding athletes, including Olympic champions in Marathon. Research study of people engaged in hard physical work (rikshas) showed that, sticking to “cruelty-free” diet, they managed to perform a tremendous amount of work, running with load more than 40 kilometers per day in the heat. But they would lose this ability when meat food was included in their ration.

The type of nutrition also greatly influences bioenergetic status of a person, namely, the level of coarseness-subtlety of his bioenergies, emotions, and consciousness. One cannot reach the heights of spiritual self-perfection unless one stops eating dead bodies of animals, among other reasons being the fact that they contain the coarsest bioenergies that remain in the body of the man who has eaten the tissues of a dead body.

As to emotions (and for a spiritually advanced person it is the emotional, not physical, component that is the most valuable in sexual relationships), one can say with certainty that only those who attained significant success in spiritual purification and bioenergetic refinement are really able to know the beauty of the sexual aspect of love.

Perhaps it would make sense to remember this precept from the New testament: “It is good not to at meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble” (Romans 14:21).

Caffeine-containing products (coffee, tea, etc.), if consumed frequently, also negatively affect the reproductive function, since caffeine stimulates mostly the sympathetic section of the nervous system.