Disclaimer: Your life is your responsibility. The information given here is strictly for educational purposes and is not intended to replace the advice of your personal physician(s).

What you're about to read is an absolutely disgusting topic. However, it's absolutely essential that you read, understand, and implement the general suggestions I set forth here. What I'm about to describe is the very key reason that some people are extra clear skinned, bright eyed, and apt to having a beautifully light mood and demeanor toward almost everything in life. I've discovered this by interviewing those people who appeared to just naturally be that way. It's also been reinforced by introducing these ideas to others (including myself!), and seeing wonderfully beneficial transformations take place before my eyes. This works.

Ever been told that you're full of shit? Or that whatever your problem is, you should "blow it out your ass?"

I don't know if people are unconsciously very keen or what -- but in a real, scientifically verifiable manner, it turns out that our use of 'shit' language might more true to life than we ever imagined. Absolutely disgusting, yes, but disgustingly true.

What I'm about to talk about is the process of elimination. Literally.

It has more to do with your love life -- your ability to attract anyone -- than you might have imagined. Or, should you have imagined it, more than you may have ever wanted to admit.

First off, your body, being the selfish little bastard it is, has some survival mechanisms involving your skin. To prevent itself from drowning and dying in it's own waste... it'll use your skin's pores like a million tiny, er, uhhhh, umm... let's just say 'bum holes', ok?. To the extent that it can't get rid of waste through other means, it'll expel waste through each and every one of your pores. Your skin will be prone to acne, and have a dim, almost 'polluted' look to it. Blech!

Let me re-iterate this, to make sure you've got the stomach retching importance of it.

Regardless of what you may have heard from television psychics, you may or may not have a third eye, but you definitely do have a second ass - your skin. And your body isn't afraid to ruin your skin quality. It'll gladly "lay waste" to your skin... ruin your love life... make you 'uggie' to others... in order to stop you from drowning from in your own shit. That shit being made of the wastes, byproducts and toxins you consume and generate from your own bodily processes. You have to give a crap about this. Said bluntly, when you don't poo efficiently through yer bum, you shit your skin. YOU SHIT YOUR SKIN. Remember this phrase. It's a great self-scare tactic to repeat this horrible phrase in order to 'get yourself off your ass' about this problem.

Now that I have you thoroughly disconcerted, I hope you're taking this a little more seriously. Even if you are having a bit of a laugh at my attempts at humor, that's just dandy with me. As long as you realize the importance of what I'm saying.

Now then, there's another issue involving your process of elimination. It's that, ahh... well...

Remember before, when I asked you whether anybody has ever told you that you're 'full of shit'? Well, have they? Or has anyone ever said that you have a 'constipated' personality?

Probably not the last one, but bathroom language is quite common when describing states of personality, isn't it? At least it is in the American version of the English language. (I'd be interested in hearing how prevalent it is in other cultures and languages, actually. Please email first hand experience you've hand with this if you're one of my international readers)

Fact is, a lot of cranky people... really are... full of shit.

No shit, it's true! Think for a moment about older people for a minute. Sometimes, when they're particularly grouchy, they're called 'old farts'.

Remember a time, maybe 10 years ago or so, when older people, in general, were a lot crankier than they are now? Why, they even made movies with titles such as "Grumpy Old Men". Well, I have one word to say about this:

Metamucil.

This one product alone, which is merely a fiber drink mix, has made older folks a lot less cranky. Hell, they're even nice now.

I mean, seriously... ever been constipated?

Of course you have!

And, tell me... were you all that nice while you were constipated?

Nope! And if you said 'yes' then you're just a bit of a liar, aren't you?

At the very least, there's nobody who's ever been in their peak mood when they're constipated. You can at least admit to that, right? As you're thinking 'yes', maybe you can start to admit the fact that nobody who's constipated is in all that 'good' of a mood either.

Now, can you remember being constipated and then becoming non-constipated? What's the word for 'non-constipated', anyway? "Free"? Oh, no, that's not it. I think it's 'regular', isn't it? But it really isn't a 'regular' experience, now is it? In fact, maybe "free" is a better word.

There you were... praying to god to help you... and, not to be graphic or anything, but there came the little angels to answer you... right into the toilet. And, tell me, didn't you feel like a completely new person? Didn't you just feel like dancing? It's like a re-affirmation of life itself! Hallelujah!

It's like getting over a hangover... or getting better after you've been sick with a serious flu. Or it's like winning a million dollars, except that you're not financially better off! Relieving yourself can sometimes be a -very- relieving process. It's a true thing for every man, woman and child on this planet. When we get rid of waste, we feel great. When we don't get rid of waste, or don't get rid of it fast or efficiently enough, we feel bad to the degree we can't dispose of it. Likewise, we feel good to the degree we can get rid of it. Think about it!

Years ago, I was doing research on people who had extreme mental disorders -- like schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a split of a single personality into multiple pieces. Just to clarify this matter a bit for the public, it's not multiple personality disorder, which most people seem to confuse it with. There's just one personality that's fragmented (i.e., cut into many pieces).

Anyway, while reading an issue of the "Brain/Mind Journal", I found a fascinating story about medical institutions in India that actually have what they claim to be a single, across the board cure for most cases of schizophrenia!

And do you want to know what that cure was?

They'd give the patient a massive dose of 'saline solution'. That's right. Very, very salty water. Do you know just how the body reacts to a large dose of saline solution? Well, aside from the resultant thirst the patient will naturally experience, it'll give him or her the runs. That's right... it'll cause them to expel all kinds of wastes right through their bums.

And unbelievably, this is the essence of their 'cure'. After the runs occur, and the person is re-hydrated and whatnot, they found that most people's personality disorders -- even as severe as schizophrenia -- are eliminated... right along with what they ate yesterday, and probably, last week. Only god knows what comes out of these people, and god can keep it to him, her, or itself -- please!

Now that's pretty crazy, huh? I don't know about you, but finding that out so many years ago just made me shit myself. Too bad I didn't have schizophrenia, or I may have had a breakthrough upon that shitting of myself. Drat.

And that brings me now to the essence of this secret. Which is that you should, you need to, make your body's process of waste elimination as efficient as possible, so a) you don't shit your skin and make it 'uggie', and b) you don't shit on other people through your actions or communications with them, like constipated, "anal retentive" (I wonder what they're retaining) folk sometimes do.

To really shine and be attractive physically and as a social being, you've got to tune up this part of you. It's basic, I know! I mean, what could get more basic for a human being? You eat, you poo. In and out. This is one function in life we all truly share. Yes, it's basic, and it's essential that we absolutely tune up this very very basic aspect of our body's functioning.

If you're not currently functioning optimally in this regard, this "secret" will probably have the greatest effect on you out of all the secrets. That's because if a basic, truly foundational aspect of your life isn't working as well as it could... GETTING it working... will have the greatest impact upon all aspects of your life.

You can't do all the fancy stuff until the basic things are done. It's like building a house. You can't very well go and actually build the house, until a solid foundation is laid, now can you?

Of course not!

And I don't care HOW old or young you are. If you're a whippersnapper, what kind of effect do you think all those burger buns and Doritos are having on you? You think fast food gets out of you fast? No way! In fact fast food is generally the slowest to come out of you... because it's that unhealthy. So it hits you twice -- with an excess of calories, fat, and synthetic stuff. Then the damn stuff won't come out! Which leads up to a triple whammy...  If you have remnants of McDonald's food, then ick. You know what happens when evil things sit around. They ferment and become more evil. A tarry, horrible evil. Euuuuuh.

So now that you know the importance of an efficient process of elimination in your life, and you're sufficiently revolted about this whole topic... let's get onto how you can tune it up, and turn this bad thing into a good thing!

1. First, incorporate high fiber fruits and berries into your diet.

The highest fiber fruits are:

Apples
Blackberries
Grapefruit
Oranges
Raspberries

Eat at least one of these fruits per day.

2. Second, incorporate high fiber vegetables into your diet.

The vegetables highest in fiber are probably broccoli and spinach.

All veggies, though, contain a good deal of fiber to one extent or another. Personally, I buy several different varieties of large (4-6 pound) packages of vegetables at Food Clubs or other bulk food stores. From broccoli and mixtures like "Broccoli Normandy", to Stir Fry veggies. All of these provide tremendous amounts of fiber. I'll generally add about half of a vegetable mixture that has less fiber, but a good deal of different kinds of veggies -- peas, carrots. string beans, corn, etc. It adds some yummy variety.

I usually steam the vegetables, but before I had a steamer, I would just fill a large frying pan with veggies, throw a cover on, and cook them on low heat for 20 minutes or so. They'd come out wonderfully warm, crisp, and tasty, even though I cooked them in a simple, sloth-minded manner.

Again, incorporate at least one of high fiber vegetable into your daily diet.

3. Eat a salad each day.

Almost everything in a salad is fibrous. Lettuce is made out of what? Fiber and water, it seems. There's hardly anything else to it.

An extra bonus to salads is that they contain hardly any calories. Unless you use a ton of salad dressing, or really pack on the feta cheese, you can completely stuff yourself with a salad that barely contains the same amount of calories that you're using to eat and digest the damn thing.

4. You can also supplement your fiber… You can, of course, use the standard of the now ever famous and popular Metamucil – which contains a single finger in high quantity – ground psyillium husks. This is a “Water soluble” fiber (meaning that it absorbs water). I've found that products like Metamucil alone, however, tend to make you, uhh... produce gas. This isn't exactly the most irresistible thing in the world.

You also need more ‘non-soluble fiber’ in your diet, which won’t absorb much of anything, but instead acts kind of like sandpaper. Non-soluble fiber helps to scrape away nasty deposits in your intestines, helping them to remove their evil influence from your body.

An easy (and cheap!) way I found of adding more non-soluble fiber to my diet was through a Quaker Oat’s product in a box called ‘bran flakes’. It’s under $2, and you can add these bran flakes to cereal, to yogurt, and to almost anything you can bake – including your own home made breads, if you have a bread machine.

As the lazy bum I sometimes am, I also came up with a special combination drink to help me ‘blow it out my ass’ that I could down to get my basic soluble and non-soluble fiber in one shot.  It's a serving of ground psyllium in water (in the form of sugar-free Metamucil or Metamucil equivalent), along with a small amount of the Quaker Oat bran flakes I just mentioned. Now, bran flakes are kind of like sawdust, in a way, so you have to keep stirring such a drink to keep them immersed in water… you should also only use a small amount to prevent any hazard of choking due to the sawdust like characteristics. But, when mixed correctly, the drink produces quite a, uh, ‘blowing it out your ass’ effect, indeed.

But it, too, also produced a bit of gas here and there, which wasn’t pleasant. I think this was more from the large amounts of psyllium than anything else, but what was I to do? There were no other bulk soluble fiber ingredients on the market, in any products. Products either used mass amounts of psyllium, or nothing at all.

5. Until very recently,  I had never really found an 'ideal' fiber supplement.

I'd always read that not only do you have two classes of fibers -- soluble, and insoluble -- but that there are literally tons of variations of these fibers that come from various foods. To some extent, I maintain a diet of much variety, so I'm covered there as well as anybody who puts an effort into that can expect to be. But I could never figure out why fiber products like "Metamucil" only contained a single kind of fiber from a single source (psyllium). It's just weird.

A few months before the writing of this book, though, something showed up in the newsletter from the same company that produces the Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw products I happily use. It was an introduction of a new product, something called their "High Fiber Complex". Complex? Yes, COMPLEX.

Just like a Vitamin B complex, for instance, contains most of the available forms of vitamin B, this 'fiber complex' contains most of the available kinds of fiber. In fact, instead of merely including psyllium, it includes fiber from 18 different sources, from all 7 possible classes of fiber. It's a quantum leap forward for such products; it's just brilliant, really.

I started using the product a few months ago, and couldn't be more happy with the results. It's better than anything I ever expected from a mere hike in fiber. And unlike psyllium only products, it even helps to reduce gas instead of creating it. It really provides a great, easy way to enhance your irresistibly inside and out, while not decreasing your appeal through any olfactory nastiness.

Here's a list of all of the classes of fiber this product covers, as well as their benefits, as taken directly from their data sheet:

• Cellulose:
  Insoluble fiber, eases constipation, removes toxins and carcinogenic substances
• Hemicellulose:
  Insoluble, absorbs water, bulks up stools
• Lignins:
  Removes cholesterol, binds with bile acids
• Pectin:
  Soluble, removes toxins, heavy metals, carcinogens, slows absorption of foods
• Bran:
  Helps remove cholesterol
• Mucliage:
  Helps regulate blood glucose, removes toxins and cholesterol
• Gums:
  Bulks up stool, helps remove LDL cholesterol and toxins

It even contains chlorophyll and aloe vera. These, among other things, tend to de-odorize you, from the inside out. No more scaring people away with, uhh, 'bad ones'. No more being afraid of the embarrassment of staining someone else's bathroom with an odor that just won't go away. Could this formula get better or what?

I tend to mix it up and drink a serving once before breakfast or lunch, and then once before dinner.

Considering the difference it makes, it's pretty affordable. Because I already have a pretty high fiber diet, I'll generally only use two servings per day -- therefore, a container that runs around $15 lasts me about a month. That works out to about 50 cents a day.

This product is truly a 'secret' in the whole industry of such products.

There you go. There's some fiber increasing solutions for you.

Now, whatever kind of fiber(s) you add to your intake, remember that doing so is essential. Whenever I run across someone that seems really happy, 'shiny', and radiant, I ask about their diet and general intake of nutrients and supplements. They tend to opt for very 'clean' diets, full of fruits and vegetables, sometimes with fiber supplementation. Their internal cleanliness shows through as a very real, very 'clear' look in their skin and eyes... and a very sort of clear, radiant personality.

You really must experience this effect yourself to see just how much it'll  positively affect your life. Again, this is NOT just for old people. With our modern day diet, which is very much lacking in fibers of all kinds, increasing fiber intake is essential... for everybody! It's estimated that the average American gets about 10 grams of fiber per day. Even the government, which has a great track record of being grossly and dangerously conservative in matters of health, recommends an intake of between 20-35 grams per day for most people. So, damnit, do this.  You won’t be disappointed. Aside from all of the cancer preventing effects people publicly talk about all the time, even not-so-talked-about results such as the psychological side effects of greater happiness and just feeling ‘lighter’ will really help you score with the opposite sex, and influence people in general. Guaranteed.

Here's a great web page describing fiber and healthy bowel function from the Continuum Health Group, which includes the famous Beth Israel Hospital. Bowel Function & Dietary Fiber