What do Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Unani, all unnamed traditions, and modern medicine have in common?
The human being.
Each medical field represents a closed system of observation to preventively maintain or restore human integrity. There is agreement on this. The reasoning and terms used in the explanatory models are as diverse as the cultures that produced them, but the goal is always the same: the person should feel better again or not get sick in the first place.
Discussions about the “right” medicine are as useful as discussions about which language is better. They are different, complement each other, and all describe the same thing.

To demonstrate this using the example of the germ.

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From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine, rooted in Taoism, the germ is the activation of Jing, the physical and organizing essence. Without Jing, no life. Too little Jing means illness, and ultimately, death.

From the perspective of Ayurveda, rooted in the Vedas, the germ embodies the awakening of Prana, the fundamental life energy. Without Prana, no life. Too little Prana means illness, and ultimately, death.

From the perspective of Unani Medicine (Pneuma), rooted in ancient Greece and known in Arabic as Ruh and in Hebrew as Rûaḥ, the germ is the beginning breath of life. Without this breath, no life. Too little of it means illness, and ultimately, death.

From the perspective of modern medicine and biochemistry, rooted in the early 20th century, the germ consists of an abundance of essential substances (such as enzymes, proteins, and micronutrients) that form the building blocks of the body and control its functions. Without these substances, no life. Too little of them means illness, and ultimately, death.
All these perspectives describe a still-dormant potential.
In all disciplines, death is a natural given; the question is how one lives until then.

The grain, the legume, the nut, the seed—summarized, the seed is a fortress of life that is not yet accessible to the body.
Jing is sealed, Prana is sleeping, Ruh is hidden, and modern nutrients are blocked by enzyme inhibitors (such as phytic acid). In its dormant state, the seed is difficult to access for the human Agni in Ayurveda, the Spleen in TCM, the Hararat-e-Gharizi in Unani, or the metabolism in modern medicine. Only through activation—contact with water, warmth, and oxygen—does the fortress open and release the active life force.
An alchemy takes place that fundamentally changes the nature and effect of the seed.

From the perspective of TCM, the activation of the grain transforms the sealed Jing into flowing Qi. It is this vital energy that enlivens the meridians and ultimately nourishes the spirit (Shen).

From the perspective of Ayurveda, the activation of the grain overcomes the inertia (Tamas) bound in matter and transforms the sealed potential into flowing Prana. This vital energy ignites the digestive fire (Agni), nourishes the tissues (Dhatus), and ultimately strengthens Ojas—the finest essence of immunity and spiritual bliss.

From the perspective of Unani, the activation of the grain transforms the cold and dry rigidity of the seed and frees the previously hidden breath of life (Ruh). This awakening force nourishes the innate vital heat (Hararat-e-Gharizi), which forms the foundation for all metabolic processes and the healing power of the body. The formerly heavy grain thus becomes a source of vitality (Quwat) that strengthens the heart and spirits and promotes mental clarity.

From the perspective of modern medicine, enzyme inhibitors like phytic acid are broken down, releasing minerals such as zinc, iron, and magnesium. This biochemical awakening ensures that the starch stored in the dormant seed is already pre-digested into simpler carbohydrates and proteins into amino acids. For the human organism, this means maximum nutrient density with minimal strain on the digestive tract, leading to a state of well-being.

All these perspectives describe one and the same universal process: The liberation of life from form.

The Ingredient Fallacy: Why the whole is more than the sum of its parts

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As fascinating as modern analytical science is, when it comes to understanding life, nutrition, or health solely through ingredients, it hits a wall. From the perspective of traditional medicines, conversely, we have no idea what the “essential” actually consists of on a material level.
A small mathematical game to scientifically support this seemingly committed heresy:
We have 40 known substances in the cereal germ alone.
These 40 substances alone result in 40! (40 factorial) ≈ 8 x 10⁴⁷ possible interactions. And that’s just while they are sitting on the plate. If we added 47 known ingredients of saliva, we would have the factorial of 40 + 47 + (very simplified) 1 x gastric juice = the factorial of 88! = 18 x 10¹³⁵ possible interactions. At this point, these possibilities are only in the stomach! We haven’t considered how well it was chewed, nor temperature fluctuations, bile, insulin, and the interaction with the ~3000 species of the microbiome—that all comes later.
To put this in perspective: The entire observable universe has an estimated 10⁸⁰ atoms.
Your body is juggling a complexity at the moment of food intake that goes far beyond the entire material universe.
But since 8 x 10⁴⁷ possibilities already burst any human analytics, enough of the game.
Those who live without wonder have not understood life.

Is modern science then a confusion of mankind? No! On the contrary, it is a highly interesting view.
A tool that can make certain things very precisely visible. But if you take the isolated substances of the germ as seen by science—amino acids, vitamins, and the like—and try to make them sprout, you will, even if the proportions are followed meticulously, get rancid mold at best. Here lies the fundamental error of modern nutritional science: one can break down living organisms into their respective components, but one cannot equate life with isolated substances. What is possible are quantitative statements.
For example: The “modern human” consumes a global average of about a quarter kilo of cereal products daily.
In this scant quarter kilo of grain, if it were Goldkeim flour, there would be seven grams of these essential substances. Seven grams.

Seven grams per day.

This corresponds to about 15–20 multivitamin supplements per day, but still lacking the high-quality fatty acids of the germ, the essential amino acids in their natural structure, the secondary plant substances, the “living” quality, and above all, the enzymes. Thus, the tablet lacks the ability for synergy. Unlike food supplements, Goldkeim flour is not a passive heap of substances but an active biological system.
Those who reach for degerminated or heat-stabilized grain leave these seven grams per day behind.
Yet they are essential!
Extrapolated, your body then lacks ~2.5 kg of essentials per year.
Calculated over a human lifetime, this is the difference between a system that draws from abundance and one that stiffens in chronic degeneration. When this lack of life-building blocks is missing over generations—or is present but blocked by industrial heat treatment—it fundamentally changes an organism.
Even if it hurts: it is a logical explanation for what we call “civilization diseases” today.
It is a systemic deficiency hidden behind full bowls.

Animal Testing

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Animal testing is repeatedly used to simulate and predict possible effects on humans.
However, experiments on the effect of altered staple foods only began 60! years later.

Experiments on the consequences of altered food

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Dr. Robert McCarrison, approx. 1921–1927, India.
The pioneer study: The origin of civilization diseases

• Working Hypothesis:
  The health of peoples depends not on genetics or climate, but primarily on the quality of their staple foods. McCarrison wanted to prove that the “modern” diseases of the British arise from the loss of life force in processed grain.

• Experimental Setup:
  Thousands of rats were observed over years.
  Group A: Diet like the healthy mountain people (Hunza): Freshly ground whole grain (with active germ), raw food, some milk.
  Group B: Diet like the British lower class: White flour products, sugar, overcooked canned goods, refined fats.

• Result:
  Group A: Remained healthy, vital, and absolutely peaceful over generations.
  Group B: Developed almost all human civilization diseases (ulcers, heart disease, arthritis).
  Particularly striking was the psychological decay: the rats became highly aggressive and had to be isolated to prevent them from killing each other.

Prof. Werner Kollath, approx. 1935–1950, Germany
The order of food: Deficiency despite abundance. (Inspired by the experiments of Pottenger and McCarrison)

• Working Hypothesis:
  Food is more than the sum of its calories. There is a difference between “making full” and “keeping alive.”
  He investigated the value of “auxones,” the living active ingredients in the germ.

• Experimental Setup:
  Rat experiments with highly processed, heated, and isolated food (refined carbohydrates/white flour) compared to natural food.
  Group A: Freshly crushed, enzymatically active grain.
  Group B: Denatured food (extracted white flour, thermally treated).

• Result:
  Kollath coined the term “mesotrophy,” a state in which animals did not starve (there were enough calories) but aged prematurely and lost their fertility. The Jing was so exhausted in the second generation that the line died out. His conclusion: “Let our food be as natural as possible.”

Summary of studies by the Royal Society of Medicine, 1940s to 1950s, Great Britain
Social collapse: The loss of Shen

• Working Hypothesis:
  Investigation of the specific effect of the degree of grain milling on the nervous system and social behavior.

• Experimental Setup:
  Long-term feeding of rat populations with flour of different qualities:
  Group A: 70% extraction: Classic, light white flour without germ and outer layers.
  Group B: 100% extraction: The whole grain, including the “awakened” potential.

• Result:
  The rats in the white flour group showed a dramatic loss of social coherence. Nervous disorders occurred, leading to cannibalism and total social decay. From the perspective of TCM, the foundation (Jing) was undermined so far that the Shen (the spirit) could no longer find a hold and turned into “madness.”

The experiment on the consequences of living in urban centers

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While the previous studies examined the internal deficiency (quality), John B. Calhoun showed with his famous experiment Universe 25 that even external abundance (quantity) cannot stop the downfall if individual free space is lost. In modern language, this would refer to the bio-electromagnetic field of the individual, Aura in the Vedic tradition, Wei-Qi in TCM.

John B. Calhoun, 1968–1972, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Maryland, USA.

• Working Hypothesis:
  What happens to a population when all physical needs (food, water, safety) are met in abundance, but social space is limited? He wanted to research the effects of overpopulation (“density stress”).

• Experimental Setup:
  A high-tech enclosure for mice, providing space for 3,840 animals. Unlimited access to high-quality food (perfect on a material level) and water. No predators, perfect hygiene, constant climate. The experiment was started with four pairs of healthy mice.

• Result: The precise chronology of Universe 25

  • July 9, 1968: The experiment starts with 8 mice (4 pairs).
  • Day 560 (approx. January 1970): The population reaches its maximum of 2,200 animals. From this point on, the social structure collapses (“Behavioral Sink”). The birth rate plummets.
  • Day 600 (approx. March 1970): The last surviving birth is recorded. From here on, there is no more offspring.
  • 1972: Calhoun publishes his famous work “Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population.” At this time, the population is already dying, but not yet “zero.”
  • May 23, 1973: On this day, the last male mouse of Universe 25 actually dies.
    The population was biologically extinct.

Although the mice physically had everything modern medicine and biology deem “necessary,” society collapsed completely. The period between March 1970 (last birth) and May 1973 (last death) is what Calhoun called the “first death”: the death of the spirit (Shen). The animals lived on physically for three years, they had enough to eat and drink, but they had stopped being “mice.” They no longer played, they no longer fought, they no longer reproduced. Beyond a certain density, the animals abandoned their normal social behavior. A group of males, the “Beautiful Ones,” withdrew completely, only ate, slept, and groomed themselves, but no longer participated in social life or mating. Their Shen was extinguished, even though their bodies were fat and shiny from the food. Extinction: the birth rate dropped to zero. Despite the abundance of food, the population died out completely in 1973.

The Problem with Overpopulation

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First of all: it isn’t one!
If all people on earth lived in Europe, that would be approx. 8.2 billion people on an area of approx. 10.18 million km². Since there are mountains, waters, and quite uninhabitable forests in the high north in Europe, we would have to subtract 20% of the area. The result would be ~992 m² per person; everyone would have about 32 x 31 meters of free space. For the bio-electromagnetic field of the individual, the free space would be sufficient to come to rest, at least bio-electromagnetically. The idea is still a nightmare though.
But not all people have to live in Europe. Experts (like the FAO) estimate that about 50% of the land area is well suited for permanent settlement and agriculture, after subtracting extreme deserts, high mountains, and the ice sheets of Antarctica/Greenland.
This results in a well-habitable area of approx. 74,450,000 km². If we divide this area among 8.2 billion people, this results in approx. 9,079 m² per person.
For regional self-sufficiency, without grains!, about 500 m² per person is enough.

Modern magnetobiology confirms today what the Vedic tradition has taught for millennia: humans are not isolated material beings, but the center of a pulsating energetic exchange. It answers, in a way, the question of whether humans have a soul. It is the other way around: the soul has a human.
The human heart is not, as believed, just a mechanical pump, but the strongest electromagnetic transmitter of our body, whose field exceeds that of the brain by many times in intensity. In Vedic teaching, this is exactly the seat of the heart chakra (Anahata Chakra), the central interface through which our aura—our bio-electromagnetic field—communicates with the environment. Research by the HeartMath Institute proves that the heart radiates a three-dimensional, toroidal field that encloses the entire body not just as a surface, but as a volumetric sphere. With a radius of two meters, every human thus claims an energetic personal space of about 33 cubic meters.
This field contains information about our emotional and physical state, carries it outward, and also takes in that of our surroundings. This results in a mandatory biological necessity: To preserve one’s own biological integrity and long-term health, the individual requires an energetic sanctuary of exactly this size. If this space is permanently violated by “layering” in large cities, permanent interference and energetic pollution occur. A time-defined retreat into such a quiet space—especially during the regeneration phase of sleep—is therefore not esotericism, but essential preventive medicine. Only in this undisturbed coherence can the system use the reserves built up through high-quality food to clear the field and restore vital order.

In a group of up to 150 people, everyone knows everyone. Misbehavior or energetic parasitism is noticed immediately. No external police are needed; the social fabric regulates itself through reputation and mutual dependence (reciprocity). Since everyone theoretically is entitled to a whole hectare, withdrawal into absolute silence (the r=2m sanctuary plus a massive buffer) is possible at any time. Aggressions that arise in the city due to “density stress” (Calhoun’s Behavioral Sink) find no breeding ground here. Up to 150 people, the human brain can solve social hierarchies and conflicts without a bureaucratic apparatus. It is the maximum size in which the Shen (spirit) of the group can still vibrate as a unit. This creates a spatial model that goes far beyond mere agriculture—it is the birth of social self-regulation. And if we think together: until the emergence of large urban centers, this was the size of a village.
The practical joke of the thesis: one person alone cannot support themselves with one hectare due to the workload, and 150 people do not need 150 hectares—the synergy effects, provided one acts with nature and not against it, reduce the area dramatically so that 150 people can get by realistically and already abundance-oriented with less than half of the calculated plot size, i.e., 75 hectares.
The resulting settlement model based on 75 hectares for 150 people thus transforms the living space additionally into a highly productive, energetic ecotope that radiates far beyond its own use. In this system, the area is used so efficiently through regenerative agriculture and permaculture design that, after subtracting personal needs, a 50% safety surplus remains for internal crisis resilience, and a further 50% surplus is generated for the collective (the people in the city).
The centerpiece is a multi-layered forest garden that provides fruit, nuts, and berries, offers animals a species-appropriate habitat, and creates synergy and distribution structures via the roots.
Integrated aquaculture systems clean the wastewater, provide construction and mulch material and substrate for mushroom cultures, and simultaneously function as nutrient storage for fish.
In the shaded levels and specialized cellars, edible and medicinal mushrooms are cultivated, which not only enrich the diet but network the soil as a mycelium network.
A closed, functioning composting system transforms all organic waste of the 150 inhabitants and agriculture back into living humus, keeping the cycle closed without external fertilizers.
This hub thus produces not only physical food but functions as an energetic and material backup for the city.
It offers the layered city dwellers a vital bridge to real vitality by exporting the surplus of life force (Ojas) in the form of high-frequency food into the dense urban centers.
This vision is not a “back to nature and everything was better before” naivety but a synergy of tradition and modernity.
It is a systemic approach in which people form an ecological fabric with each other and with nature to detach themselves from self-destruction.
This is not fiction; the possibilities exist.
A necessary brief postscript to this chapter: Deserts are not static fates or fixed geographical givens; they are the final stage of abused earth. Where sand and dust rule today, there was once a living ecosystem. And just like with the body, illness is not a one-way street: broken ecosystems can be transformed back into fertile soil through regenerative methods, just as humans can heal when they get what they need.

A pretty fantasy, but where is the proof?
The Loess Plateau in China: An area as large as Belgium or the Netherlands, degraded to a desert by overexploitation, was transformed into a green paradise within two decades.
Film tip: “Lessons of the Loess Plateau” by John D. Liu documents how a dusty moonscape in China was turned back into flourishing gardens.
Sekem in Egypt: In the middle of the hostile desert, a flourishing organism was created through biodynamic agriculture that today feeds thousands of people.
Anyone who talks about overpopulation on this planet has understood nothing about humans or the planet.
The planet is not overpopulated; it is currently just ‘mismanaged.’ Once one understands the regenerative power of nature, the specter of overpopulation loses its terror.

Reactions to the Dead Rats

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Only 60 years later did official bodies begin to seriously research this connection between grain quality and psychological health (neurotransmitter synthesis).

• Michael Gershon, 1998 Columbia University
  The Discovery of the “Gut-Brain Axis”
  He published his groundbreaking work “The Second Brain.” He proved that 95% of serotonin (our “happiness hormone”) is produced in the gut, not in the head. The connection to Goldkeim: If the grain is “dead” due to white flour processing, the precursors (such as tryptophan) and the enzymatic activity to form these neurotransmitters are missing. Without Jing in the gut, no Shen arises in the head.

• Various institutes, including the World Health Organization and FAO, increasingly in the 1990s.
  Research on Phytic Acid and Mineral Blockade
  It was officially recognized that the lack of zinc and magnesium, blocked by phytic acid in unsprouted grain, leads directly to depression, ADHD, and aggression. The result was that 60 years later, it was confirmed on a biochemical level why the rats of McCarrison and Watt went insane: their brains were “starving” for micronutrients even though their stomachs were full of starch.

• David Barker, from 1989/1990 University of Southampton
  Epigenetics and the “Barker Hypothesis”
  He proved that the mother’s diet (the quality of her Jing) shapes the child’s health into adulthood.
  If essential substances in the grain (such as folic acid and B vitamins from the germ) were missing, the risk of mental illness and metabolic disorders in the next generation increased massively. This exactly matches Kollath’s observations of the second-generation rats.

The Goldkeim Hypothesis - Foundations of Biological Erosion

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Before we look at the levels of physical decay, we must understand two essential causes that set this process in motion in the first place.
They are effectively the foundation on which the vicious circle of modern degeneration is based:

Factor 1

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Structural Emptiness (Lack of Fiber & Small Particle Size)
This is the physical component that destroys the natural matrix of grains through fine grinding (fine-flour state).
The resulting problem is that the enteric nervous system (ENS), also called the abdominal brain, lacks mechanical resistance and stimulation without coarse particles (fiber, grist). Gut motility slackens, and a viscous “paste” is created that prevents vital communication between food and the intestinal wall. One can imagine this like a plastered surface that forms an additional barrier for nutrient absorption and at the same time is a breeding ground for organisms that do not belong there.

Factor 2

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Enzymatic Numbness (Lack of Availability)
This is the biochemical component. Through heat treatment (heat stabilization) or the removal of the germ, the grain is inactivated (killed) from a biological perspective to make it shelf-stable. From a caloric perspective, this is insignificant, but from a physiological one, it is not. Consequently, the body lacks the “scissors” (enzymes) built into the grain to cleanly break down complex structures (such as gluten or starch). The food thus becomes a difficult-to-decompose permanent burden that slows down digestion, further intensifying the fermentation processes triggered by Factor 1. At the same time, proteins that are difficult to metabolize due to a lack of enzymes, in combination with zonulin, open the barrier function of the intestine. The system opens up for those pollutants and pathogens that should actually stay out.

Co-Factors

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When we analyze modern nutrition, we encounter three more industrially altered cornerstones that in their synergy complicate the bio-electric and biochemical communication of our body. These are:

• 1. Refined Sugar: Cable Corrosion (The Wiring)
  Isolated glucose without an enzymatic brake leads to glycation (sugaring) of proteins and lipids. This especially affects the myelin sheaths—the insulating layer of our nerve pathways. The nerves become brittle and porous, “leaks” arise in signal transmission; neuronal communication gets a “loose connection.” At the same time, the incomplete combustion of isolated energy floods the tissue with acidic residues that strain the system like chemical soot.

• 2. Refined Salt: Signal Short Circuit (The Voltage)
  Isolated sodium chloride without its natural mineral antagonists destroys the electrical gradient at the cell membrane (the resting potential). Thus, the cell loses its ability to send or receive precise electrical impulses. A permanent “noise” arises in the system, a permanent osmotic stress that overlays the fine bio-electrical control. Isolated (refined) salt withdraws water from the matrix, paralyzes cleaning enzymes, and neutralizes the electrical repulsion of the tissue structure: where negative charges previously held the space open, the sodium excess ensures an electrostatic collapse. Thus, the state of standstill is fixed.

• 3. The use of -cides: The War Within (The Inner Ecosystem)
  Herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides are by nature biocides—substances made to end life. In our body, they unfortunately act the same way; as chemical warfare agents against the 100 trillion inhabitants of our microbiome. They do not distinguish between the “pest” in the field and the essential bacteria and fungi in our gut. Additionally, these substances block enzymatic pathways (such as the shikimate pathway) that our gut flora needs to produce essential amino acids and messenger substances.
  The result: the microbiome—our internal alchemy department—becomes incapacitated. A biological power vacuum arises in which pathogenic germs can spread while the protective barrier of the intestinal wall (tight junctions) is chemically destabilized. The “broadband attack” makes the gut an open flank for toxins that should never have reached the blood, and from there, the entire human body. The tragic repeating historical pattern is: 2008 is considered the year the microbiome was discovered. The realization was that we do not only consist of human genes, but that the genes of our 100 trillion roommates significantly control us; they are epigenetic switches of our health (microbiome-epigenetics axis). At this point, chemical warfare had already been raging inside for 70 years.

• 4. Chemical Refining & Deodorization of Oils (Stripping the Nerves)
  Through extraction with hexane and subsequent high heating, the oil becomes biologically worthless. Phospholipids (such as lecithin), which are exactly the substances your brain and nerves need as an “insulating layer” for data cables (myelin sheaths), are removed as “mucilage.” Bleaching with bleaching earth filters out all pigments (carotenoids, chlorophyll), which are the natural antioxidants that would protect the oil and your body from free radicals. Finally, deodorization (steaming) follows. The oil is treated with steam at over 240°C to remove the gasoline smell and rancid notes. At these temperatures, carcinogenic trans-fatty acids and glycidyl fatty acid esters are inevitably formed. Trans-fatty acids are not mere “empty calories” but cellular saboteurs. They stiffen cell membranes, promote inflammation, and are scientifically proven contributors to atherosclerosis and cancer processes. Glycidyl fatty acid esters are necessarily formed during the industrial refining of vegetable fats. In the body, they are split into glycidol—a substance classified by EFSA and other authorities as genotoxic (damaging to genetic material) and carcinogenic.
  The result: the body’s own lubricant becomes a toxic cocktail. The “data cables” of the nervous system lose their insulation (lecithin robbery), while membranes become rigid due to trans-fats and the genetic material is under permanent fire from glycidol.

Expression of Biological Erosion

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1. The Structural Signature (Skeleton and Tissue)
If silica, magnesium, and calcium remain blocked by dead enzymes or are missing altogether, the body cannot release them from food; it loses its architecture.
The consequences: narrowing of the dental arches, malaligned teeth, sinking bone density, and a premature collapse of the connective tissue (varicose veins, hernias). Humans lose their elastic tension. Even the delicate mechanics of hearing are eroding: as the tiny ossicles demineralize and the stereocilia lose their structural rigidity, the mechanical transmission of sound collapses – one reason for the increasing hearing loss and the loss of “inner order,” even at a young age.

2. The Neuronal Signature (Nerves and Psyche)
The nervous system requires high-quality lipids and the B-complex of the germ as an insulating layer. Without this lubricant, the brain runs dry.
The consequences: mass phenomena of anxiety disorders, chronic irritability, and sinking resilience. The “thin-skinned nerves” are often a cellularly starved nervous system.

3. The Metabolic Signature (Heart and Metabolism)
Without regulatory trace elements like chromium and natural B-group vitamins, the body can no longer cleanly burn massive amounts of starch.
The consequences: cardiovascular weakness and metabolic burnout. The heart ages prematurely, while the insulin balance collapses under the weight of pure starch (diabetes explosion).
The “Dust Effect”: Besides chemistry, we are missing physics. Industrial ultra-fine grinding destroys the grain’s natural matrix. While coarse particles serve as “bacteria hotels” for our microbiome and gently regulate blood sugar levels, fine dust flour acts like a glucose injection. It only feeds our blood but starves our 100 trillion gut inhabitants, who depend on coarse structures to produce their healing metabolic products (postbiotics).

4. The hormonal signature (Vitality and Reproduction)
Industrial degermination deprives the body of the basis for biochemical communication and regeneration.
The consequences: A hormonal implosion. The decline of general vitality, chronic exhaustion, and a massive weakening of reproductive power (fertility crisis).

5. The allergenic signature (Immunological Identity Crisis)
When the enzymatic “scissors” (proteases) are missing, complex protein structures (such as gluten) enter the intestine incompletely broken down. These coarse protein fragments trigger the release of zonulin, a messenger substance that makes the intestinal wall permeable (Leaky Gut).
The consequences: The immune system is chronically flooded with unreadable proteins and essentially enters a state of permanent panic. Allergies, intolerances, and autoimmune processes are often not nature’s attacks on us, but the desperate reaction of a system that has been deprived of the enzymatic key to dismantling foreign proteins.

6. The oncological signature (Cellular order and energy flow)
Modern oncology increasingly recognizes that energy metabolism plays a key role in cancer: cancer cells preferentially gain their energy from the fermentation of glucose. In the Goldkeim logic, this is the ultimate consequence of a diet that floods with starch (energy) but deprives it of the necessary enzymes for its clean, oxidative combustion. Without the guiding information of the germ (Jing) and enzymatic activation, the system loses its order. The cell falls back into an archaic survival program: uncontrolled growth or growth at any price. In this view, the civilization disease cancer is the result of an organism that has starved in front of full bowls for generations and has lost its biochemical leadership.

7. The Matrix Signature (not the film but systems biology according to Pischinger and Heine)
Modern physiology recognizes the interstitium (the extracellular matrix) as the decisive communication medium for the basic regulation of the organism. In the Goldkeim logic, this “inner sea” is the physical equivalent of the Asian meridian system. The daily influx of enzyme-free, oxidized industrial food leads to the thickening (gelotization) of this endogenous communication structure. The body is forced to temporarily store metabolic waste products in the connective tissue to protect the function of vital organs (heart, liver, brain, etc.). The result is not mere overweight, but a systemic communication jam: the bio-electrical conductivity breaks down, inflammation levels rise, and the cell suffocates in its own environment. The organism loses its ability to self-heal because the controlling signals get stuck in the “metabolic sludge.” Autophagy, the cell’s internal recycling process, is thereby hindered or even made impossible, and with it, internal body communication.

8. The foundation of decay – The Sensomotoric GAU
While points 1 to 7 describe the visible damage, this point forms the invisible basis: The decoupling of the enteric nervous system (ENS) / second brain.
The gut is not a passive tube, but a highly intelligent, sensomotoric laboratory. Highly processed food acts here like an “enzymeless glue” that triggers an extremely destructive chain reaction:

• Mechanical numbness: Due to the lack of coarse particles (structure), the second brain receives no mechanical labor stimulus. Peristalsis (bowel movement) slackens. The chyme stagnates.
• The sealing: A viscous biofilm (“paste”) forms, physically coating the intestinal villi. Nutrient absorption is blocked – the human starves in front of full bowls.
• Bacterial dysbiosis: This stagnant glue serves as an ideal breeding ground for pathogenic germs. Fermentation processes and endotoxins arise directly at the sensitive interface.
• The barrier breach: The combination of toxic load, poorly digested proteins, and sticky contact triggers the release of zonulin. The protective barriers (tight junctions) open.
• The flooding of the matrix: Now the circle closes to points 1–7. The toxins flood uncontrollably into the Pischinger space (the extracellular matrix).
• ~ 95% of the serotonin in the body is produced in the gut. The enterochromaffin cells in the intestinal wall require mechanical stimuli and a clean environment to release this “happiness hormone.” Modern food isolates these cells, production drops. Since serotonin controls gut motility and simultaneously ensures inner peace in the head, this deficiency leads to a double burden - the gut stands still and anxiety and sleep disorders arise in the head.
• Dopamine (drive & reward) is our motor for motivation. The ENS communicates constantly with the reward centers in the brain via the vagus nerve. Due to the inflammation levels (factor 3) and the toxic flooding of the matrix (factor 7), the second brain permanently signals “danger” instead of “nourishment.” The brain downregulates the dopamine receptors (safety mode), resulting in listlessness and a creeping inability to feel joy – a cellularly conditioned burnout.

In summary, the mechanical and biochemical GAU (paste & zonulin) inevitably leads to a neuro-chemical malfunction that radiates far beyond the gut.
The “brain damage” in the belly, however, is not the cause but the consequence: The enteric nervous system suffers from a form of “neuro-erosion.” When the neuroglia in the gut (the support cells of the nerves) enter permanent stress due to the toxic paste, the signal quality degenerates. One could say: The connection to the head gets a “loose contact.” We lose the proverbial gut feeling and the intuitive guidance through our own body.

Additional regional differentiability

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This industrial basic erosion and its chemical enhancers (sugar & salt) form the universal foundation of modern decay.
Yet, on this foundation, nature shows a different face depending on the cultural circle. Since every grain has its own biological signature, its industrial amputation also leads to specific deficits. With the change of grain-based staple foods, a specific deficiency signature was created for every world region. Today, we are not looking at a sick humanity, but at four groups suffering from the consequences of their respective staple food manipulation. The previously mentioned eight signatures form the common basis, so to speak; grains have fundamental commonalities but also differentiate the expression through their diversity.
Even though all grains belong to the grass family, rice is different from corn.

1. The Wheat Group: The unstable human

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Dominant in: Europe, North America, Middle East, China
Through the removal of germ lipids and the blockage of minerals by dead enzymes (phytase destruction), a signature of neuronal and skeletal erosion emerged:

• Nervous lability: Mass phenomena of anxiety disorders and chronic irritability – the “thin nerve costume.”
• Structural decay: Narrowing of the dental arches, misalignments, and decreasing bone density (osteoporosis).
• The result: A person who is full, but whose nervous system is overwhelmed and whose skeleton becomes brittle.

2. The Rice Group: The exhausted human

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Dominant in: Asia, parts of Africa
The polishing of rice and the deprivation of regulatory trace elements from the bran led to a metabolic burnout:

• Insulin collapse: The worldwide diabetes explosion. The body suffocates on pure starch because the “matches” for combustion are missing.
• Cardiovascular weakness: A cardiovascular system that ages prematurely without its natural B vitamins.
• The result: A person whose inner motor is constantly overheating.

3. The Corn Group: The wasting human

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Dominant in: Central and South America, Africa
Industrial degermination without the protection of traditional preparation leads to hormonal and structural wasting:

• Dermatological degeneration: Chronic skin conditions and the loss of protective barriers.
• Hormonal implosion: A massive decline in vitality and a weakening of reproductive power.
• The result: A person who loses their “protective shell” on the outside and their “source of power” on the inside.

4. The Millet & Oats Group: The rigid human

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Dominant in: Northern Europe, Russia, parts of Africa
Massive heat stabilization, which makes the biological value of the bran insoluble, leads to immunological and structural rigidity:

• Connective tissue collapse: Varicose veins and ruptures as a sign of missing elasticity (silica blockage).
• Premature sclerosis: Early hardening of tissues and vessels – the person becomes immobile.
• The result: A person who “petrifies” internally before getting old.

The buckwheat control group: As an unintended living counter-proof

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That this biological erosion is not an inevitable fate is shown by a look at Eastern Europe and Russia, where buckwheat (not a grass but a knotweed plant) is the “living fossil” of this story. Since it was uninteresting for industrial large-scale milling for a long time, it escaped the amputation of the germ and the heat treatment. It serves us today as a biological control group: people for whom this untouched grain is a staple food often show a more robust neuronal and structural constitution than the “white flour nations.” Buckwheat proves: If you leave the software in the grain, you protect your own hardware, your body.

Chronology of a species that has changed its staple food

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Generation 1-2 The Initiation (1840-1900)

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In this period, the biological software of humans was hacked by three changes simultaneously:
1. degermination, 2. fine grinding, 3. refined salt and 4. refined sugar * from 1850s: Pellagra (The mental decay)
The cause: B3 loss through industrial degermination of corn (destruction of niacin).
The consequence: The “Three-D disease” (Dermatitis, Diarrhea, Dementia).
The body loses its protective barrier to the outside world, its mind, and finally its life.

• from 1850s: Caries Epidemic (The material rot)
  The cause: Matrix robbery & sugar vampirism (white flour paste + refined sugar).
  The consequence: Sugar draws minerals from the tooth enamel for its own combustion, while the “dead” flour blocks the supply.
  What lasted for millennia rots within one generation.

• from 1860s: Rickets (The structural collapse)
  The cause: Mechanical phytase robbery by sifting out the outer layers in wheat.
  The consequence: Without the enzyme scissors (phytase), the flour becomes a mineral thief. The remaining phytic acid in white flour seals calcium absorption in the gut.
  Children’s bones become soft and bend.

• from 1869: Neurasthenia (The neuronal erosion)
  The cause: Lipid robbery through the removal of germ oils and nerve fats.
  The consequence: The first diagnosis for “nervous exhaustion.” Without the insulating fats (lecithin/E) from the germ, the brain’s data cables lie bare.

• from 1870s: Beri-Beri (The energetic short circuit)
  The cause: B1 robbery & enzyme stop by polishing rice (removal of germ and bran).
  The consequence: Very, very many deaths in Asia and on the world’s oceans.

Generation 3-4 Life on Wear and Tear (1900-1960)

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In this period, mechanical exploitation was perfected by the Beall degerminator and widespread heat stabilization. Since the body has not received “construction information,” the germ, for two generations, this time marks the beginning of structural implosion.

• from 1910: Creeping heart erosion (Preparing the collapse)
  The cause: The fatal synergy of B1 deficiency through degermination and the introduction of refined salt (chemically pure NaCl).
  The consequence: The heart works without enzymatic spark plugs against an artificially increased osmotic resistance. It is the beginning of a decades-long compensation phase in which heart muscle tissue unnoticedly degenerates.

• from 1920: The Caries Breakthrough (Skeletal bankruptcy)
  The cause: The combination of white flour paste and industrial sugar becomes standard.
  The consequence: The teeth of children in industrial nations collapse nationwide. Tooth decay begins to be accepted as “natural fate.”
  The first big wave of dentures arrives.

• from 1920: Toxic loading (Leaded gasoline)
  The cause: Lead floods the respiratory tract while protective fats are missing from the diet.
  The consequence: An invisible double burden for the nervous system.

• from 1930: Beginning of the pharmacological crutch
  The cause: Instead of bringing enzymes back into the food, symptom management is invented.
  The consequence: Birth of the modern pharmaceutical industry as a necessity. Blood pressure reducers and painkillers are developed to mute the signals of a body suffering from deficiency. The person becomes a permanent customer of chemistry.

• from 1940: The “Enrichment” (The alibi experiment)
  The cause: Governments recognize the decay and decide to artificially add individual synthetic vitamins (B1, B2, Vit. A, Iron) to the dead flour.
  The consequence: A fatal error. They believe the living orchestra of the germ can be replaced by isolated synthetic instruments.
  The erosion is not stopped, only masked.

• from 1950s: The “Fat Murder” by Ancelm Keys
  The cause: The Seven Countries Study falsely but successfully stigmatizes dietary fats as heart killers.
  The consequence: Collective fear of fat. The already missing germ oils are no longer replaced by other healthy fats. Nerves are finally bare.

• from 1950s: The heart attack epidemic (The visible collapse)
  The consequence: Three generations of nutrient robbery meet the increasing stress of the post-war era.
  Consequence: The system can no longer compensate. Sudden cardiac death becomes the number one cause of death. Instead of seeing the 40-year lead-up (salt/degermination), fat is declared the scapegoat.

• from 1950s: Metabolic burnout (Diabetes wave)
  The cause: Through roller mills, the starch in the flour is so finely broken down that it acts almost like pure sugar.
  Industrial sugar consumption itself increases to replace the loss of taste due to lack of fat. Within just 20 years after Keys’ “findings,” the use of corn syrup (HFCS) and table sugar in processed foods doubled to tripled.
  The consequence: The pancreas is worn out by the “flour-sugar-whip” in permanent use.
  Type 2 diabetes begins its victory march through the middle class.

The strategy of generation 3–4: Covering instead of healing
In this phase, a dangerous thought pattern solidifies:
The Acceptance Error: Caries, heart weakness, diabetes, and early wear are held to be “natural signs of aging” or “genetic bad luck,” even though they are the logical consequence of 100 years of dead grain.
The chemical superposition: Since food no longer delivers enzymes, one tries to force metabolic processes through synthetic molecules. The body turns from a biological system into a chemical test site.
Conclusion: In Generation 3–4, we forgot what real health is. We began to define “survival with crutches” as the normal state. The hardware was already so unstable that it could only be held together with artificial co-factors and chemistry. War economies and famines paradoxically offered short Jing-breaks from industrial abundance, but chemical superposition began: Humans became a chemical test site instead of a biological system.

Generation 5-6 (1960-2026)

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In this period, the human system is collapsing. It is no longer just vitamins missing; biological integrity is missing. We are the first era where the hardware damage of ancestors (since 1840) strikes fully and meets a hostile environment.

• from 1960: The Allergy Explosion (Loss of identity)
  The cause: A gut without enzymatic protective films meets biocides and antibiotics. Communication between food and the immune system breaks down.
  The consequence: The system unlearns the distinction between “friend” and “foe.” It recognizes the denatured gluten chaos as an attacker. Hay fever, asthma, and neurodermatitis are less diseases and more the desperate alarm of a body that can no longer process its environment.

• from 1980: Psychic erosion (The neuronal short circuit)
  The cause: Total deprivation of germ lipids (nerve fats). The “insulating layer” of our data cables has not been renewed for generations.
  The consequence: Brains run hot. ADHD and depression are the result of nervous hardware that “lies bare.” Without the damping and insulating power of germ oils, the chemistry in the head tips. We treat structural burnout with psychopharmaceuticals while the biological hardware literally burns out.

• from 2000: The Fertility Collapse (The biological emergency brake)
  The cause: Epigenetic surrender. The body recognizes that the information depth is no longer sufficient to build an error-free copy of life.
  The consequence: Biological stop. Infertility is not a defect but a protective function. The human body refuses to put life into a world for which it no longer finds high-quality building material. Sperm quality drops not because of “stress,” but because of information deficiency.

• The Present: Multi-system total loss
  The cause: 180 years of cumulative erosion culminate in a generation born with brittle blueprints.
  The consequence: We no longer suffer from a disease, but from a syndrome of inflammation, suffering, and pain.
  The medical machinery manages the ruin and keeps us artificially alive while biological substance sinks towards zero.

The Final Station: The “New Normal” of exhaustion
In this last phase, perception has shifted completely:
The surrender to biology: We accept that 30-year-olds are “burned out,” 40-year-olds swallow blood pressure pills, and children have no teeth in their mouths. We call it “civilization diseases,” but it is simply starved hardware. Here the circle closes. The 20 vitamin pills of generation 4-6 have failed because they carry no information (enzymes). Our bodies do not need isolated substances, they need the return to order. We stand today before a choice: Either we accept the creeping exitus of our biological line, or we give our bodies back what has been withheld since 1840.

Goldkeim is not a new superfood but a necessity. Goldkeim is by far the cheapest, simplest, and available lifeboat for a species that is going down.

We have robbed staple foods of their biological intelligence and changed them so that they fill the stomach but interrupt biochemical communication between food and body.
We, the human species, starve in front of full bowls and call the resulting consequences “civilization diseases.”
A part of the solution lies in the word “civilization diseases” itself.
The german word Krankheit (disease) is etymologically traced back to the Middle High German word gebrechen (to break, to lack) whose original meaning is apparently “it breaks off from, it goes off from, it is missing.” The noun used is Gebrechen which displaced the MHG “gebreche” (deficiency, complaint, disease). Over time, the figurative meaning “disease” established itself as the only one. This definition sheds light on the omnipresent words “civilization and prosperity disease”:

Both are missing.

Health

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Since the term health is used more or less intentionally in different ways, here is the definition of health.
On July 22, 1946, health was defined in the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) as:

“a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

As the only definition of health, it is accepted almost worldwide (191 of 192 UN states).
This definition states that health includes physical and mental and social well-being.
Not “or” but “and”; all three areas are important! Sensibly, this definition should be extended to an intact ecosystem because what good is health if there is no planet to inhabit?! According to this definition, we are all more or less seriously ill.
And that is the way it is; no one needs to be embarrassed.

The good news at the end

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Since it is a deficiency through removal and/or blockage, the solution is really easily reversible.
As soon as the “living” (the Goldkeim synergy) becomes part of daily food again, the body shows an amazing ability to recall its original construction manual.
As well as it possibly can. The human body is an incredibly wonderful vehicle.
Give it the chance!

With this, the problem and its origin should be obvious, and now to the solution.