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creates a new working rhythm for them, one that may well persist after the cure is over.
    OXYGENATION
    Stimulating the work of the excretory organs with whey and medicinal plants allows large quantities of wastes to be eliminated from the body. However, some wastes lie stagnant in the depths of the tissues for so long that they combine with other wastes to form agglomerations. Because of their large size, they cannot be eliminated naturally without first being broken down into smaller pieces.
    The degradation of large toxins into smaller toxins is performed by oxidation. In the presence of oxygen and thanks to enzymatic activity, the wastes are “burned.” This combustion results in a fine ash that the body can easily carry to the excretory organs for elimination.
    For oxidation to take place successfully, enough oxygen must penetrate the deep tissues. Respiration, because of the sedentary lives most of us lead, generally brings very little oxygen into the body. Furthermore, this oxygen has a difficult time reaching deeper into the tissues, again because our far-too-sedentary lifestyles do not encourage optimum cellular irrigation or exchange.
    Physical activities that cause an intensification of the rate of respiration and the sensation of being out of breath will bring more oxygen into the tissues. Walking at a sustained pace, for example, or over uneven terrain will create this healthy oxygenation. Sports activities in general, as well as dancing and manual labor, such as sawing wood, mowing the lawn, and raking leaves, can also have the same result.
    The health spas where the whey cure was followed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were most often located in the country and in mountainous regions; long walks in the fresh air were an integral part of the cure.
    PHYSICAL EXERCISE
    The principal virtue of physical exercise during the whey cure is that it intensifies cellular exchanges and circulation, thereby triggering the movement of deeply embedded toxins toward the surface where they can be expelled. When muscles contract, they have a crushing effect on the surrounding tissues and organs that pushes out some of the bodily fluids and toxins they contain. The action is similar to squeezing a sponge so that it will release the dirty water it contains. The repetition of these contractions engenders a kind of “agitation” in the tissues, which until this point have been only sluggishly irrigated, and releases numerous toxins into the blood where they will travel to the excretory organs. Our tissues are often so poorly irrigated that descriptions such as “marsh” or “desert” are used in natural medicine to designate those regions of the body where capillary and lymphatic circulation are extremely deficient.
    Another benefit of exercise during the cure is, as we saw earlier, to encourage oxygenation of the deep tissues and therefore the combustion of the wastes they contain. This combustion is amplified during exercise by the simple fact that the body’s energetic needs are increased and this forces the system to burn the energetic substances stored in the tissues at a higher and more intense rate.
    Physical exercise can also be beneficial to the body by relaxing the mind and the nervous system. In fact, breathlessness and muscular labor will quickly shift attention toward the body. Anxieties, obsessions, tensions, and bad feelings become blurred, at least momentarily, and the physical tensions, spasms, contractions, or blockages they engender disappear. The organs of the body can once more function freely without any disturbance to their activity or malfunctioning due to tensions and blockages of nervous origin.
    Whatever physical activity is chosen (walking, biking, tennis, swimming, jogging, etc.), it should be performed according to the individual’s physical strengths and capabilities but must last long enough for its effects to reach the deeper regions of the body. It should also take place on a