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MALE SPEAKER: Thanks for being here this afternoon.
And today we're pleased to welcome
Dr. T, a very special guest from Minneapolis.
Dr. T was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
He has two doctorate degrees.
One, in Chiropractic, and the other one, in General Medicine.
Dr. T's specialties is in health, medicine, nutrition,
and sustainability.
Dr. T had been traveling extensively, offering
medical care and studying nutrition practices
around the world.
In the West, we are dealing with all kinds of stress,
mostly related to work.
Even Google, being the best company to work for in 2014
according to the "Fortune" magazine-- we still
feel the stress, with a smiley face.
On the other hand, the people in Nepal,
they have a different type of stress in life,
and that's what I call everyday life stress.
And, for example, they have one of the slowest internet
services in the world, and the internet
was introduced to Nepal in 1994.
And even as of today, yet their internet speed
is the second slowest in the world, just behind Libya.
And then, the second problem they have
is, on average, most people only get
about 9 to 12 hours of electricity per day.
So, you can imagine living in that type of an environment,
and even before these challenges in life.
But the people in Nepal are still
pretty happy and extremely friendly.
And you can find, in their greeting tradition,
for example, they do not shake hands or hug.
What they would do is they close their palm,
and then bow their head, and say Namaste.
So today, we're lucky to have Dr. T to share his childhood
experience in Nepal and then what
we can learn from these people about the health and also
the stress issue.
And then with that, I would like to welcome Dr. T to Google.
DR. TEL-OREN: Thank you.
I know that you're here for many reasons.
Some of you are here because you want to know about stress,
and some are here because you want
to know about the Himalayas, and some
want to know about the skin, and some
want to know about vitality.
So, how do we weave all those things together
in just a short talk?
Normally, each one of them could be a two or three hour
discussion.
So, we have to be a little more concise
and be rapid in our presentation.
And we need to realize what's truly important in life.
What is it makes people really stressed?
Why are we stressed?
Because we take on more than we can handle.
Because we have a lot of expectations
that are put upon us or that we decide to adopt.
Because we want to Excel.
Because we want to get appreciation.
Because today people would love us for what we manufacture,
what we produce.
So, we have to get results.
We are very result oriented in our society
and if we don't perform according
to expectation, distress.
Even if we have the best food in the world and the places
to get suntan, it's not enough.
So, we need to start thinking about what's
really important to engage in and to adopt above and beyond
the day-to-day routine of taking more and more responsibilities
upon ourselves, which is the main cause for stress in people
who are productive, and young, and relatively healthy.
Of course, when you have stress, you
have the physiological and psychological consequence.
Many people have back problems and insomnia.
Many people have stomach upset and headaches.
A lot of people have palpitation anxiety attack.
A lot of young people that I see are
suffering from mood disorders.
They simply can't handle the pressure of the daily life.
And that's not their fault.
It's the fault of our physiology.
We're not made for that.
We are hardwired, in our brain, to handle
quick and severe or extensive stress, that
then abates and disappears.
That's what we are designed to have in nature.
And we all came from nature, like it or not.
We came from a place where we had severe risk of death,
instantly, and then 10 minutes later that risk passes away.
And if we survived it, we can relax.
Today we don't have that opportunity.
If the stress lasts too long and it is too severe,
the results are extreme.
They've done studies with mice and they
saw that when the mice are under severe stress for too long,
after just several hours of extreme threat,
those mice had three severe anatomical changes.
In volution of the reticuloendothelial system,
meaning everything shrinks in the immune system organs.
Like the thymus, shrinks rapidly and you could see it.
The adrenal glands, which are associated with stress,
with the output of stress hormones, starts swelling
and you see it rapidly, visibly, anatomical growth, hypertrophy,
of the adrenals.
And the last of the visible signs, is wounds and open sores
and bleeding ulcers in the digestive system.
Now this is visible.
Imagine what is not visible.
Imagine all the little things, the changes,
that happen in the body with our circulation, with our hormones,
with our neurology.
All those things that happen that are not visible in mice
within just a few hours of severe stress.
And this is what we are enduring in our society
because our stress is interminable.
It continues, unabated.
We don't know when to shut it down
because our responsibilities and the tasks
we have to engage in on a daily basis don't end.
On the contrary, we keep adding on and on and on because we
want to excel, we want to get respect and appreciation
from the jobs, from the peers, from our friends,
from our family.
Everybody expects something out of us.
We just don't know where to let go and how to let go.
So, we go to all of those methods of stress management
because we have those symptoms.
We can't sleep at night, we need stimulants
to stay up during the day because we're
so tired when we wake up.
If we wake up from a night of no sleep
If you need to drink coffee or take any stimulants to feel
that you can go through the day, you're
not getting enough sleep or poor quality of sleep.
And most people today need stimulants every day,
whether it's caffeine, coffee, chocolate,
or other such stimulants.
What are they doing?
They're pressing on the gas pedal when the tank is empty.
They're forcing us into the stimulation that
resembles a stress response, which tells us
that we have a little more energy.
Our blood supply is slightly richer in glucose,
so we can bring more energy to the muscles
for the fight-or-flight that doesn't exist.
And that is the stimulant that we always
take thinking it's good for us because it makes us feel high,
but it's only necessary because without it we plummet,
and we get tired, we crash throughout each day.
Sounds familiar to some of you, doesn't it?
That is not where you want to be because over time all
of these conditions associated with the physiological and
emotional stress are going to simply make
you either fat, or tired, chronically fatigued,
or having chronically suppressed immune system resulting
in cancer.
People always go through these three phases
of general adaptation syndrome.
The first phase is just being under stress
but not knowing it.
The second, is having the stress and having those symptoms
of fatigue, and aches, and pains,
and digestive complaints, et cetera.
The third phase is when there's complete systematic break down.
The adrenals are overwhelmed.
They cannot create more of these hormonal outputs of stress.
At that point, people either develop
chronic fatigue syndrome or fybromyalgia,
they become bedridden, they totally
lose their functionality, or they
have other severe chronic condition, or they get cancer.
That's the third phase.
Most people today who are under significant stress,
are already high on the second phase
of this general adaptation syndrome, also known as GAS,
and they are very dangerously close to phase three.
I see today a lot of young people in their '20s and '30s
who already are coming into phase three
and wondering where it came from.
Not realizing how much of it is related to the stress
that they're suffering from.
And this is the stress that is typically
in affluent countries.
We are all suffering from affluenza.
And we really want to change that.
We want to start moving towards simplicity.
It's not always easy when we have everything available right
in front of us to just pick and choose.
Sometimes too many choices is a stressful thing.
You want to just be told, do this.
You don't want to know too much information.
Just give me what I need.
But you have too many options.
That is a stress because you want
to live life to the fullest.
You want to experience everything.
While people in other countries don't have that opportunity.
People in Nepal are always having very few options
to eat, to see.
They never travel much.
They never go on an airplane, they can't afford it.
So, they stay in one village in the remote rural Nepal
and they never get out of that environment.
Maybe once or twice a year they would travel all the way
to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
And that's about it.
Those people are always seeing the same trees,
the same houses, the same mountains.
They wake up and everything is predictable.
Now you would say-- and you'd be correct-- is predictability
always a good thing?
Is nature predictable?
And you'd be right to ask that because the answer is no.
And I've never said that their life
is perfect out there in Nepal.
They have a lot of their own challenges.
But their existence appears to you to be predictable.
In reality, it's not.
They have constant change in their life.
Every day brings numerous, unpredictable events.
They never know if the food will be good, if there will be food.
They never know who they're going
to meet coming to visit their village.
They have a lot of changes in their environment.
Not just with the seasons, but with survival.
Every time they walk on the trail, something happens.
They might have to confront a mule or a cow
or water Buffalo that might push them off the trail.
Or they may just have a landslide that will take down
a whole village and they would have to somehow make do.
They're always on the survival mode without even knowing it.
But it's a different type of survival mode.
It's the kind that brings change continuously,
where change is expected where the unpredictable is expected.
Therefore, it is not so stressful
when you see new things.
Let's contrast that with Americans
who are accustomed to their routine.
Every day they have to get in their car,
drive, go from 9:00 to 5:00, drive back,
stop on the way in the coffee shop, go to get some bagels.
Those people are doing exactly the same thing every day.
They are creatures of habit.
But as soon as something happens that is different,
they can't handle the stress.
They go berserk.
So, they need to drink alcohol or take some pot.
Drink, smoke some pot to feel more relaxed
because they can't handle change.
In nature, we have to handle change
because from every bush might be an animal jumping out
at us-- under every tree.
Or every time we have to run away we have to be prepared,
have to be alert, all the time.
When you get used to that constant change,
you stop being stressed.
So, this is one thing I like to teach people,
to keep making your life varied.
Increase variety, complexity, in your life.
Allow things not to be simple, while you live a simpler
lifestyle.
Sounds like a contradiction, but it's the truth.
Simplify your life in what you take on, but increase
the variety so that you are accustomed
to the unpredictable.
Go outdoors into nature.
Many people will tell you that to reduce stress
you have to either meditate, or do mindfulness,
or hypnotherapy, or guided imagery, or Tai Chi.
There are so many techniques that
are being told to you that are great to manage your stress.
They don't treat the underlying cause of stress,
but they help you manage it.
And they're good, but one thing on the list is go to nature.
Learn from nature.
Your body, physiologically, is adapted
through tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands
of years to the natural environment from which we came.
Eat according to nature because any time
you have a slight disorder, anytime you
have a slight nutritional deficiency,
anytime you're exposed to toxins, all of those
are related to our departure from what's natural.
We need to try to correct that.
And in nature we have extreme variety
of foods that are made by nature that we
would have had in nature in their natural pristine state.
Today, how much of a variety do we have in food?
You could go to all of Google cafeterias,
you would still not have more than 50 foods covering just
about the whole gamut.
50 vegetables, and spices, and grains, and legumes,
and few other things Not that much.
But if you go foraging in nature,
as our predecessors did-- our ancestors foraged
all the time before agricultural age--
you would have unlimited number of foods
to choose from all the time.
And you would have the unpredictability
of what would be available, which keeps you
on your toes in a healthy way.
It keeps you excited about life.
So, please bring variety into your life and please
go to nature to learn from her, and not
just to use her as a shelter from stress.
And if you do go into nature, then you
start learning other things because you
will see the different animals and people that co-inhabit
that natural environment, and you see what they do
and what they don't do.
That is true for learning from other people.
What do they do?
What do they not do?
And what makes them healthier than us,
is always an important question.
You know that 79 million Americans have pre-diabetes.
That's a huge number.
You know that hundreds of thousands of children
are being diagnosed, before age 10, with cancer.
Pediatric cancer is a fast growing trend
and most hospitals are building special wings
for childhood cancer.
And we have one out of three or four children on drugs
or diagnosed with a disease.
And almost all the children today
have some allergies, or asthma, autoimmune disease,
or immune suppression condition that will never [INAUDIBLE]
of children.
So, many children are diagnosed with learning
disorders, and autism, and other conditions that
didn't used to be so popular.
Once, it was 1 in 10,000 children--
not too long ago, a few decades-- and now
1 out of 49 children are diagnosed as having autism.
What's happening to the next generation?
Many of you are going to have children,
if you don't have them already.
What's happening to our children that makes them suddenly
the sickest children have ever been?
Shouldn't we learn something about what
is happening in other countries to compare and contrast and see
what we can learn to save a whole generation of children
in this country?
How do we do that?
How do we learn about the health of our children
when they're all exposed to the same factors,
such as we don't have a control group.
If we want to do a scientific study.
We can't.
We have to go somewhere else where the children have not
been exposed to what children here have been exposed to.
There have been studies with children
who have moved from one country to another,
and they saw clearly, the children
who moved to an affluent Western nation
to a more primitive, more developing nation,
the earlier they move to the newer place, the newer
residence, the more they adopted the same diseases
and disorders, including mental diseases,
of the new adoptive country that they've joined.
That is a very important observation.
So, if a child comes to the United States from Ethiopia
when he or she is only 6 years old,
they're going to be a lot healthier than the local kids
because they had 6 years in a primitive environment.
But if they come here at age 2 or age 1, or worse yet,
at age 6 months, they develop all the medical, and mental,
and behavioral conditions that are typically
in the modern country that they've joined.
Shouldn't we try to ask ourselves the question,
why is that the case.
What are we doing to children that makes them so sick?
How do we study that when in our country
all the children are exposed to the same things?
So, if we asked ourselves, is it because they're
exposed to too many electromagnetic radiation
sources?
Is because they had too many vaccines?
Is it because they eat genetically modified organisms?
Is it because of something else?
Too much stress, perhaps?
They know when they are 2 years old that one day they
will work in Google.
They already are stressed out.
Who knows.
We don't have the answers.
But the only way to find out is to start asking the questions
and doing some studies.
For that we need a control group.
It just so happens that you can create a control group
in a place that is far away from the United States.
A place that is so pristine, and so primitive,
so underdeveloped, that most of the young children
have not been exposed to what our children have
been exposed to.
If we can have a good number of children
that we could study how healthy they really are,
how lacking they are in mental and behavioral disorders when
they go to school, how easy it is to teach them, how excited
they are to go to school.
And they are beautifully behaved.
They always are excited to study, to learn new things.
When you see those children and you fall in love with them,
you think, what a great thing we can
do to impart some of their health to other people
in developing countries who are suffering
from all those modern diseases of children that have never
been a part of our life until just the last few decades.
Instead of just worrying about it
and getting more and more hospitals
to build more and more cancer wings,
shouldn't we find the causes and treat them
or avoid them or prevent them.
Preventive medicine is not so heroic.
It's exactly the same as preventing
suffering in children in Nepal because while we create
the control group of thousands and thousands
of children that can show us the way, can guide us
into the light of health and vitality, at the same time,
we can help them avoid the horrific tragedy of childhood
trafficking.
15,000 children, in Nepal alone, are
used in trafficking, prostitution,
slavery every year, even now.
15,000 for a small country.
That's a huge tragedy.
Some of them are ending up as domestic workers and slaves.
But most of them end up in India,
where they're sold for prostitution or slavery
and it's because their environment is so poor, so
destitute, that they have no capability of organizing.
Their communities are fragmented.
Their families have fallen apart, not just
because of a 10 year civil war that
left the country in a desperate state,
but also because there are no opportunities
in the rural areas of Nepal.
No socioeconomic opportunity, no health
care available, no educational opportunities,
so the children end up in the fields all the time
and they are simple and easy to pick.
And their parents are totally illiterate,
so it's easy to come to a parent and say we're
going to take your child and give her
a great education in India and put her in some boarding school
where she will learn English and learn a vocation
and have a great successful life.
If you are a parent that can't offer anything to your child,
you'd fall for that.
And that child ends up trafficked and suffering
horribly for the rest of her life.
That can be easily prevented with very little money
because prevention is 1,000 to 10,000 times more
effective than heroic salvation after the fact.
So, instead of the expensive emergency room medicine,
we're engaging in lifestyle, nutritional, stress reduction
type of medicine, which prevents the disease
at a tiny, tiny fraction of the cost.
As I said, it's not heroic, it's not so attractive and sexy,
because you can't pinpoint those children
that you've saved from trafficking.
But you make a real impact, especially
if you go through those societies,
in those remote areas, and you help them organize
and then you make them participate,
so it is more sustainable.
And you help rebuild their communities
and build for them a community center that
could take care of their health and hygiene.
And start doing adult literacy program
that teach the parents some skills
and how to read and write.
And organize the women in mother's groups
because the mother is really the beginning and end of the family
caretaker, the educator.
Take care of those in a sustainable way
and you don't need much money.
For only 8 and 1/2 dollars a month per child,
I can, by myself, sustain 5,000 children
with Everest Learning Academy-- which I really
want to applaud Google because Google now
has its own matching program, so people could contribute money
to the Ecopolitan Eco-Health Community, which
supports the Everest Academy.
And I have some great news-- you're the first group
to hear about it-- that we are now, finally,
recognized by the Nepali Social Welfare Council
as an international NGO, similar to the Peace Corps.
And we are just a few people, not a government.
So, I invite you to start thinking
about things bigger than yourself.
That might be the thinking person's stress relief.
Start thinking about what you can do to make life better
on earth, not just for yourself, but for others.
When you do that, suddenly the stress
will melt way because now you have a vision
and you have a purpose.
Think about it.
They've done studies with people who are stressed,
and they said, yes, stress will kill you.
But for some reason, some people have the highest stress level
and they live the longest.
Studies have shown that.
It's a Paradox.
So, you have to start looking, who are those people
because we want to be like them, right?
And we find out that those who live the longest,
despite severe stress, are the ones who
are in charge of their own destiny.
The ones who are not pushed to a nine to five job,
but feel like they create their own reality.
They manifest their own dreams, visions, and missions.
Does it mean that the only people who are the bosses
can live long?
Not necessarily.
Even people who work a 9 to 5 job
can create a purpose for themselves.
Can become the heroes of their community
and of remote countries.
Can venture into new lands where they can do some good.
And while doing that, they think every day,
what am I doing today that meets or gets me
a step closer to that purpose?
How do I make earth a better place
from me, and for my children, and for my friends' children
and great grandchildren?
How do we make this a better place?
If you take a purpose to your heart and start implementing,
on a daily basis, whatever it is,
it will simply overshadow the stress
of trying to simply preserve your own ego in a society that
expects so much of you.
Where your responsibility that you adopt
are so numerous just because you need
to have affirmation and acceptance
from your peers and your family members.
Do something that's outside of yourself and people
will leave you alone and they will not expect much of you
because you'll be doing something good.
Not just for yourself, not just for your own pocket.
People who just work for money have a lot of stress
because they always worry, will they have enough money
to meet their next consumerism goal.
What are they going to buy next that they won't to use.
That will rot in their garage-- three car
garage, which has four cars in it.
What are those people going to do?
Nothing.
They just have to keep showing off to other people
how much they have.
So, instead you have various options.
You can contribute to worthwhile causes--
we're going to match you.
You work here-- or you could decide to join.
You can start getting into the activism mode.
We already have 5,000 children in our network
of 65 projects of schools, and childcare centers,
and orphanages, and community care centers
and we're growing rapidly.
We need somebody to be creative and think and help
us create a technological system that will allow us to collect
all the data we need to collect about the health of all
the children in our network.
My goal is to get to 100,000 children.
If you participate, as creative individuals, and help us
find a system, a method, that allows
us to collect all the information that we need
to truly tabulate the mental, emotional, social, and physical
health of our thousands and thousands of children.
That would help us take better care of our children in Nepal,
but it will also help us create the data
that will allow us to start implementing some changes that
are necessary so that the hospitals will stop building
those cancer wings for children, so that the pediatrician will
not have to treat so many children with drugs,
so the children will not be diagnosed with autism
and have to take various drugs for ADD and ADHD.
That's not necessary.
We just need to understand why is it
that 100,000 children-- God willing,
if we get 200,000 children with the support of populations
that care, that have the ability to care,
then we can really help the whole world
because the modern civilization is
where we have more problems than we have over there.
As soon as they're organized, as soon
they can take care of themselves,
as soon as they have schools and child care centers so that they
can get to work, as soon as they learn to read and write.
We give them the opportunity to acquire
a skill that will make their life in rural Nepal
a lot better, a lot easier.
We can preserve their culture, their ethnicity.
And you're welcome to visit.
You can come and check with us.
In March, we have some people from Google
coming to represent Google.
And we will have other people coming in October.
We do it twice a year.
You can come and join our treks and see for yourself
what we do with the children.
You can volunteer or you could just do it from your own home.
Help us create a system.
Let's design something that allows technology
to collect the information we need
to make this earth a better place.
And In the meantime, we just need to support it financially.
Financially we do the support through the skin clinics,
which is something that I created many, many years ago.
A way to eliminate and prevent skin cancer, which
is the most common cancer there is.
It is so easy to prevent melanomas,
which kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.
So easy, you just have to eliminate the lesions that
might become cancer five years from now or 10 years from now.
It's true prevention.
If you have 100 lesions on your body-- little dark spots, flat,
where the sun won't shine-- be aware.
Melanoma, the lethal skin cancer everybody is afraid of,
always always develops in the places
that have not been exposed to the sun.
Surprising.
But it's not surprising, we've known it for many years.
The information you're getting from the establishment
is not accurate.
You have to open the textbook yourself
and find out where those melanomas occur.
And you'll be surprised that they
occur on the scalp under the hair,
behind your neck where there's no sun exposure,
on your torso, and your armpits, under your bikini line,
in the white spots that have never seen the sun.
You better start mooning the sun,
so the sun will shine where it normally doesn't shine.
Get some sun exposure in the various places,
but you have to do it regularly.
Because if you don't, those white areas
that are irregularly exposed once every six months,
that's where you will develop your melanomas
and they start from little dark spots that can gradually grow.
Catch all of those dark spots.
Eliminate them now.
It's so easy.
No surgery necessary.
No medical treatment necessary.
You can get rid of a hundred of them in just one sitting.
And by doing that-- with any of the doctors
that I have trained, in various places in the world,
to do this using my method-- by removing those skin lesions,
you prevent yourself from developing skin cancer.
Also, the carcinomas are very easy to treat--
that's a different type of skin cancer.
Very easy to work with those type of skin lesion
and catch them early.
Very good to remove protrusions and growths,
which could develop as a result of hormonal imbalance
or the result of unhealthy nutrition.
And remember, if you get sick because of unhealthy nutrition
or lack of sleep or other types of exposures
or toxic exposures, the stress that you have in your life
becomes far worse.
It's makes every disease magnified.
So, you do want to eat really well according to nature.
If you want to know what I mean by nature,
go to the website thetruthaboutyourfood.com
where I give 12 hours of free information.
12 hours of lectures that you get
for free-- thetruthaboutyourfood.com.
Then, you'll learn about healthy nutrition according to nature
and according to science.
You do that, you reduce your skin aging.
You make sure that you have all the nutrients necessary,
like sulfur, which is a crucial nutrient for the skin health
and for your hair health.
When you have not sufficient sulfur in your body,
your hair starts falling and becomes fragile and brittle.
And your skin starts aging because it
loses its cytoskeletal structure, that's
supported and makes it plump and gives it
a body-- just like when you were born
and had a plump face and plump skin everywhere.
You want to retain that, you have to eat really
food rich, rich, rich, in antioxidants.
Every meal should be rich in antioxidants
because today you're exposed to so many toxins
that they increase the [INAUDIBLE] damage.
It's not just the sun that we blame on aging.
The sun is one source of [INAUDIBLE] in our skin,
but our diet is another big source.
Whenever you eat rancid fats, you
damage your subcutaneous fat under the skin,
and your skin ages prematurely.
If you want to remove protrusion and growths
that occur as a result of your diet
or if you want to improve the hormonal balance,
so that you don't develop tons and tons of skin tags
on your neck and under your breast
and on your face, which you see a lot of people suffering from.
And if you don't want to have a rough spots and dark areas that
are caused by excessive free radicals,
you have to make changes.
And then your body will be able to handle stress a lot more.
You can take some adaptogenic herbs,
which also help you handle stress more effectively.
But again, they're not addressing
the underlying problem.
So, I truly recommend to go back to nature,
to learn from nature, to come to the Himalayas
to see what we're doing out there,
and get your stress level down just by being in nature
and by adapting a purposeful life.
That would make your skin healthier,
your skin lesions less likely to appear, you can easily
remove them and reduce the stress of bad image problem
when you look in the mirror, when
you have those huge things on your nose.
They can easily be removed.
Don't tell me that you were born with it; therefore, it's OK.
Because if you're born with it, it's
been on you for a longer amount of time
and it's been exposed more to the elements.
It's even more risk.
And if it's caused by the neurological imbalance that
makes some of those protrusion occur,
you can improve your neurological state
by removing them.
Improving the balance of your body.
Your symmetry of information that comes,
sensory information that comes into your brain.
There are many reasons to improve the skin appearance.
Not just your image.
Your skin is the mirror off your health.
The integrity of this barrier between the inside of our body
and the environment outside of us.
That integrity is crucial and it tells us
a lot about the integrity of your entire body, which
is made of barriers.
The blood brain barrier, the digestive barrier,
the cellular membrane, as a barrier.
All of those barriers must be healthy for you to be alive.
And of course, they have to be healthy in order
for you to be healthy.
If the, skin as a barrier, has lost its integrity,
also other barriers, which share the same type of nutrition,
are going to lose their integrity,
and you lose your health on so many levels.
Keep your integrity of the barriers, of your life,
of the purpose, of the participation in making
this world, this earth, a better place, and then,
your stress level will go down because you
will learn what's really important in life.
And you will truly stop sweating the small stuff
that makes you worried and stressed all the time.
You can do your work and be happy with the results
because you know that ultimately there's
something greater, something bigger,
that you participate in to leave a much better world
for future generation so that the legacy that each one of you
has is a legacy worth having for prosperity for many generations
into the future.
Thank you very much.
AUDIENCE: Are you working with other organizations
like Soroptimist International and the U.N.
with the children's issue?
And, if so, what companies?
Soroptimist has been around since the 1920s, was founded
in Oakland by women that weren't allowed into rotary.
And trafficking of women and girls
has always been something they've
worked on both internationally, nationally, and locally.
They help women and children.
DR. TEL-OREN: At the moment we are fairly young.
We've only been around for 3 and 1/2 years.
And it's been so far sort of a one man show.
And I have no time, really, to get involved
with other organizations but I wish I did have that time.
And I need more people to help me
make the connection because I'm limited.
I'm just one person who's seeing patients nonstop and giving
lectures 250 times a year in several continents.
I travel all the time, and educate, and teach, and treat
and write, and travel, and guide treks in Nepal.
I just don't have the time, or the capability,
or the knowledge to do this this administrative, important work,
that is connecting with other organizations that
are pre-existing.
AUDIENCE: Well, I'd be happy to connect you [INAUDIBLE].
DR. TEL-OREN: Thank you.
Any help is always welcome, as long
as it doesn't add more stuff on my table.
So, whoever wants to help, please
help in a meaningful way that can make things really
change for the better.
We have to activate as many people
as we can to make this work.
We have a wonderful staff in Nepal
that made it possible to grow to 5,000 children in just 3
and 1/2 years.
It's just unbelievable.
It's above and beyond my wildest imagination.
I had no idea that we would become, suddenly,
an INGO, international NGO, in Nepal.
We can have our own office of the Ecopolitan community
from the United States.
We can have a full-time office now in Nepal,
which we're going to dedicate this March of 2014
because of this new honor that has been bestowed upon us.
So, we are humbled by that, but with a lot of responsibility.
We always want to be sustainable.
We don't want to pluck daughters, or girls,
or children from their society and isolate them just
to save them.
We want to save the whole community by organizing it
sustainably, so that all the girls in the community
will not be trafficked.
Instead of just save 20 or 30, put them in the house,
and they will never go back to their home society
because they have been isolated from it
and they don't think it's appropriate for them
to go back to the village.
And then, other girls in the village who are less fortunate
end up trafficked instead.
Some organizations do that.
They have great intention, but we
are trying to change society by organizing the communities
with their own participation, so they
can take pride in what they're doing.
And we need help in that direction, as much as we can.
What we mostly need right now is money.
AUDIENCE: I have two part question, actually.
Number one, is about the trek that you mentioned
that happens in March and October-- or November,
I'm not sure.
I want to learn a little bit more about that.
And the second question is, being born and raised
in Kathmandu, I would just like to learn a little bit about how
you view the stress level, the health quality, and just
quality of life.
Meaning, people that are living in rural Nepal versus somebody
that's living in the city.
DR. TEL-OREN: Excellent question and I often
lecture about it when I have more time.
Differentiating what happens to the children
who migrate to the city.
And it's usually the young people
who are looking for some opportunity who
go to Kathmandu where all the tourists are so there's
a little more money, there's more action,
there are more hospitals, and more educational facilities
that provide greater opportunity.
Unfortunately, when they go to the city,
they also lose their culture.
Many times the ethnicities, the beautiful Nepali culture,
gets dissolved into the foreigners, and the pollution,
and the population overload that occurs in the city.
And also, their health starts deteriorating.
They start eating more like the Westerners.
They want to emulate the Westerners if they can.
So, they start eating a lot higher on the food chain.
They start eating a lot less plants and a lot more animals,
which they could never afford in rural Nepal.
They start having some of the symptoms
that I see with Americans.
A little more belly, a little more diabetes, little more
skin disorders, they start losing their hair.
I never see bald people who are truly in rural Nepal,
but in the city I see a lot of bald people.
All kinds of changes happen when they
increase too much their level of protein intake,
especially from animals sources.
And I'm not telling people that they have to be vegan.
Nepalis are never vegan.
Even if they live in rural Nepal,
they eat animals once in awhile.
But very rarely can they afford it.
They reserve it for special celebrations, special holidays.
Tihar, Dashain, and other special festivals.
That's when they do that.
But as soon as they go to the city and they can afford it,
they start partaking of the cheap flesh that
comes from factory farming of the animals.
And that could never be healthy for them.
And we see the differences in their health,
and in their mindset, and their attitude.
I did some studies with vitamin D level,
and even though Kathmandu is still the city
and its polluted and populated, I've
seen the highest level of vitamin D in Nepal much higher
than anything I've seen in the United States even in Florida.
And in Israel, the sunny country of Israel, where 99% of people
are vitamin D deficient, but in Nepal they
had a much higher, healthier level of vitamin D
even though they use umbrellas and there are foggy
times during the monsoon season, and pollution,
and they don't like the sun because they want to be whiter.
They're afraid of becoming darker.
They want to be more like the foreigners.
As a result, they don't have that much sun exposure
but yet they still have much higher level
of vitamin D, which again is something
that could be interesting for us to study.
Why is that?
Why are they healthier on that level?
Because vitamin D protects you from 25 types of cancer,
and diabetes, and obesity, cardiovascular disease.
And people here are deficient.
And people here take supplements and they still
have lower level of vitamin D, then
Nepalis who don't even know that there's such a thing
called vitamin D. And they would definitely
never take supplements because they can't afford them.
And they don't even know what the test
is because they can't afford the test.
So, I had to send their blood from Kathmandu to India
to test their vitamin D 11 level.
It doesn't exist it Nepal.
And they all have vitamin D level far,
far higher than Americans do in the southernmost states
of the United States.
So, this is another thing that needs to be questioned.
We need to really do some good study using
this amazing population of kind-hearted people
who want to always give you everything
they have to give with a smile, no matter how little they have.
You could study so much from them.
We inspire them just because we could travel to visit.
But they can inspire us on so many other levels that
help us open our heart and our mind
to truly learn about our world and be
happy with little consumerism, with little materialism,
and learn to really enjoy what is meaningful in life.
So, thank you for that question.
Did I answer it?
AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE].
DR. TEL-OREN: The trip.
It's very simple.
You go on nepali-children.org or on trek4humanity.com.
One of those two.
And you read about it and you send an email
and then you get information about how to join the treks.
It's a 15 day trip, during which you learn about Nepal--
not you, of course, because you know so much about it.
But most people can learn about Nepal
as if they were there for four months
because during those 15 days, I guide you incessantly.
You'll get tired of my accent.
You'll say, shut up already, we learned enough for one
day about Nepal.
You will learn about health, about nutrition,
about sustainability, about socioeconomic issues,
about humanitarian work, and you will also
learn a lot about Nepal that you can't
learn in any regular trip that is on the beaten path.
We go to places where tourists never go .
We go to communities that are never visited.
We go to areas in the countryside in the Himalayas
that have amazing views and you will never see another tourist.
Plus, we visit, during those 15 days,
a lot of the communities that the Ecopolitan communities
service through the Everest Learning Academy.
You will meet the people.
We also go to Chitwan National Park.
Come Some elephant ride in the forest and see some animals
and get into a nice little resort and go into some temple,
so you can learn about the culture
and you learn about the people.
We also do our Touching the Untouchable program.
That I started two years ago to help
break the ancient caste system and the prejudice
of the caste system.
Even though the government of Nepal has abolished it,
in the rural part of the country they still practice the caste
system, to some extent .
And we try to break through that by blending
the different castes together with the tourists,
with the groups, in a very beautiful ceremony that allows
us to share with them foods and drink and touch
them, and massage them, and hug them.
And it shocks them because they're the untouchables.
And they are so unexpecting when that happens.
It's just an amazing thing to see.
Every time we take new groups so it's
a fresh new experience with the Touching
the Untouchable program, which I really hope
will end this caste prejudice forever
in practice, as well as in law.
People who are interested in joining the trek
can be sponsored by other people on the website
trek4humanity.com there is this option.
Just like people do the walkathon, the MS-a-thon,
and so on, you could come there and you're coming
is by itself supporting the effort
because most of the money actually
goes towards the activities of the Everest Learning Academy.
And so, people can support you, can sponsor you.
As many friends as you have can sponsor you with as much
as they want, and that allows you to come and also
to contribute more to Nepal and also have the matching program
work with that.
So, it's a win-win-win for everybody
and I really want to thank Google
for being on that matching program list.
I have to say that also Apple, and Microsoft, and Oracle,
and Boeing Corporation are all on our matching program
for the Ecopolitan Eco-Health Community.
But Google has a great program and we truly, truly
thank Google for having that.
MALE SPEAKER: For the benefit of the audience,
I think that it will be great to introduce
about the Himalayan, high sulfur, black salts
that you bring in.
DR. TEL-OREN: Thank you, I forgot about it.
I did mention the sulfur earlier and how important
it is for the skin health, but I forgot
to continue on that idea, which is really
the sulfur-rich, black salt from the Himalayas.
It's made in Nepal in a factory that I
built in Kathmandu that, basically,
has all of it's profits supporting
the children and the activities of the Everest Learning
Academy.
So, when you eat this sulfur-rich salt,
which tastes like eggs, by the way.
So you add it to a vegetable and suddenly it tastes
like an egg salad.
You add it to a sandwich, it tastes like an egg sandwich.
You add it to an avocado and you want to melt from pleasure.
You can add it to anything.
It's kind of addictive because it's so tasty,
but the sulfur is extremely healthy
because it supports your detoxification process,
called sulfation, and supports the structure of your skin
and your hair, and nails, and all of those structural organs
from ligaments, tendons, to cartilage.
They all require sulfur.
So, this salt comes from a very clean environment.
It is exactly nothing more, nothing less,
than the pulverized black crystals
of this special salt that comes from the Himalayas.
And that's another way to support our children
while supporting your own health.
That's all it does.
Support the children and your health.
MALE SPEAKER: You're welcome to stay around.
Dr. T will be happy to answer questions if you have.
And now let's give applause to Dr. T.
DR. TEL-OREN: Thank you.