Roy:

>>(I think there was a lot of trouble
>>in the instincto community when Burger's wife died of a cancer).

>Would it be possible to get more details on this: what kind of cancer was it,
>and was it diet related?
>I remember GCB being quoted as saying that she died "because she wasn't
>getting enough protein.

Since I am not really in touch with the French instincto community, I don't
know the details. I just read in Andre Paillet's homepage (which cannot be
accessed anymore) that maybe she didn't practice instincto correctly, that
she ate too much, and also that she was too busy with the seminars and so
on, hanging and cutting the meat (psychological reasons are often an easy
scapegoat).

>On an unrelated subject, do you know if GCB is still accessable to visitors.
>I.e. does he still have a "chateau" somewhere, which gives nutritional
>seminars and related stuff?

I phoned this afternoon, and the answer was a surprising yes (I thought
the French justice had forbidden Burger to talk publicly about
instinctotherapy). They regularly organize seminars, conferences, meetings
at the Chateau de Montrame, but I am not really interested in that. If a
pioneer of instinctotherapy, helped by her husband's advice, wasn't able to
practice the method correctly, how could a 2-day seminar be of any use to me?
It may take years to reeducate the instinct, we don't easily get rid of
long habits of cooked nutrition.

Moreover, I really believe that Perfect Health with a Perfect Diet is a myth
that too many promoters of a particular diet (raw vegan, instincto, nut
frutarianism or whatsoever) use to attract people in their system.
It is too easy to blame generations of bad habits when there is something
wrong. Of course, I do not deny that many years of cooked diet could
have inflicted irreversible damages to our body, but changing the diet
wouldn't be worth it if a really noticeable amelioration couldn't be
achieved.

Exercise is also important, and to find the right balance between
too much and not enough exercise, and to practice correctly may be IMO much
more difficult than having a balanced diet.

During three years, I practically didn't exercise my body and had to study
until late in the evening: my health gradually went downhill. I mean,
clinically speaking, I was healthy, but medical sciences don't quantify our
inner feelings. But when I resumed Martial Arts, what a difference! After the
first training, I felt better then ever! I also read many books about Chi
circulation, and was at the beginning convinced that Martial Arts were a
sort of elixir of life. But when I looked in the history of Tai Chi, I read
that some "old" masters dindn't live beyond 55 years. How could it be
possible, since they practiced "bone marrow cleansing Chi Kung" that was
supposed to prolong life? But now, the answer is surprisingly clear: these
masters probably didn't suspect that their bone marrow was continuously
polluted by cooked food...

In conclusion, I don't want to be part of Burger's "system", even if I make
a few "mistakes". Many other factors can undermine my health, and maybe
perfect health is an idealistic aim like Nirvana that we will never reach.
Remember that wild animals have illnesses too (see Jane Goodall's book),
and that among the living humans, very few are "enlightened" (maybe none).

Best,

Jean-Louis