I wear many caps one of which is my practice of natural medicine and healing. This is known to my close friends and several people who are aware that my nickname is NATUREMAN.

Last month, I was in Auchi Kingdom in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State on advocacy lecture that explained to the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP) members unwholesome natural lifestyles that are shortening lives today. Imagine, life expectancy in Nigeria currently is 46!!!

Mr Z. A. Momodu a long-time friend facilitated the lecture through an engagement with Mr Peter Imuedeme, chairman of NUP and his amiable management.

What an explosive, revealing lecture that shocked everyone.

To start with, I observed that about 99 percent of the whole world don't know how to sit on a chair so as to prevent future collapse of the spinal column and thereafter live in pampers like a stroke patient until death calls.

What is the proper way to sit? I informed the pensioners of it.
Also, I educated them about how to use their eyes to make them less prone to damage.

Later, the pensioners received education on how to position their television sets and working computers so that you don't end up with bad sights or spectacles.
Still on exposition. Most people drink unsafe water some of which contain deadly lead, arsenic as well as other toxic minerals.

Incase you don't know the water we drink is responsible for most degenerative disease today. Which is not the best. Best water to drink? It is water that has Potential Hydrogen (PH) of 7.32. A machine is available for generating such alkaline water known to increase the body's capacity to absorb and use oxygen, the life elixir, to give longevity. But unlike this curative natural water, the acid, dangerous water drank by most people destroys body tissues.

Other highlights of my earth'moving Auchi lecture.

■ Two-time winner of Nobel Peace Prize in Chemistry, Dr.Linus Pauling recommends we need about 6000mg of Vitamin C daily. But most person do not get this level of this vitamin. Neither do we bother about taking Vitamin B'Complex. So, we fall sick easily and die. Then we blame village people. Church enthusiasts blame the innocent devil.

■ Similarly, we eat a lot of inflammatory Omega 6 and 9 fatty acids from vegetable cooking oils. But we ignorantly do not eat the anti-inflammatory Omega-3 fatty acid. Result? We suffer from chronic inflammatory, illness that kills us instrumentally. Consuming fried foods also help us to fall sick.

■ We store palm oil in plastic bottles which leaks carcinogenic dioxin from the bottle into the oil. Oops, glass wares are best for keeping palm and other oils if you want to be healthy rather fall ill mysterious and die young. Or live an incapacitated life. Also, note, when you open and use palm oil container, air enters into it. Oxidation of palm oil takes place destroying the fatty acids in the oil. Hence, it becomes rancid and now a killer responsible for many illnesses orthodox medicine cannot treat.

Advice? Avoid aged palm oil. Oga and madam be warned. Palm oil has expiry date!!

■ Beware of following unscientific information on herbs. Otherwise you will lose your life. See, every herb has its indications, side reactions and contradictions. Much more, you may be allergic to certain herbs and come down with adverse reactions when you use them.

Another issue. There exists dangerous drug reactions. Yes, combining herb can lead to the production of a deadly concoction that damages the vital organs of the body including the liver. Many people are dying today because of the misuse and abuse of herbs.

For instance, do you always use garlic and ginger? Be careful. Both are blood thinners and can cause internal bleeding and slow death. Some years ago, i lost a friend who was frequently adding dry garlic and ginger to his meals. He fell sick and passed on painfully after admission in hospital for one year!

■ Groundnut is eaten with garri and used for nutritive soup consumed with eba, pounded yam or akpu. Good. However, be watchful. Groundnut contains calcium, magnesium and phosphorous in disproportionate ratio or value. If you overeat groundnuts, you stand the risk of having too much phosphorous in your body. This can result in loss of calcium from your teeth, bones and blood. What follows is weak teeth and bones. Also, your blood does not clot easily.

Much more, groundnut is an acid food. Overeating it gives rise to acid blood with low absorptive utility for oxygen.
Nicotinic acid is in the nut. The acid causes blushing in the face and water logging there. For this reason, stay away from groundnut if you have glaucoma or you bloat during your menses.
What is more? Take time to pick out bad, spoilt nuts before use to avoid eating mucoid aflatoxins linked to pancreatic cancer.

■ These days nearly everyone is malnourished. We are not eating the right fats and enough carbohydrates. Worse off, we do not bother to eat proteins like beans which supplies 20 of the amino acids we need daily for growth, body repair and synthesis of several biochemical products. Hence, we fall sick at the turn of the clock's hand. Low protein kills.

■ 99 percent of people use iodized table salt. Unknown to them, this brand of processed salt contains aluminium deliberately added to prevent it from caking. This aluminum settles in the brain causing Alxeimers Disease. In contrast, natural sea salt with over 50 biochemical nutrients is safer and far better.

■ Many of us have never heard iof free radicals which destroys òur organs making them age fast and prone to attack by disease. Nevertheless, free radical exist while antioxidants are there in abundance to neutralise these ravaging, destructive free radicals in the world of natural medicine and healing.

■ Hope exists for followers of nature care services because of its great limitless curative possibilities. For instance, there is available in the world of nature Co-EnzymeQ.10 known to vitalize the mitochondria of cells where energy is produced for daily metabolic activities. Sometimes, we fell unwell due to lack of sufficient energy for the body to work. Weak heart may be due to low performing mitochondria in cells.

Indeed, there was so much I wanted to talk about in my lecture in Auchi kingdom. But time was an inhibitor. So, I said very little yet still causing seismic shockwaves down the spines of our Auchi listeners.

On a last note, I did not fail to say that many modern orthodox doctors are daily being converted to natural medicine. One of them is Dr. Ray Strandt. He narrated how his wife, Elizabeth, had a disorder called fibromyalgia, a bone, muscle and nerve problem. She was wheelchair bound. Orthodox remedies did not help her. A layman advised him to try natural medicare which he did.

Behold, in no time she threw away the wheelchair and was back to her
horse-riding hobby. What a miraculous healing!!

Was my advocacy trip to Auchi Kingdom successful? Yes, it wâs. Several people's eýes were opened to the noble philosophy, art and science of natural medicare.

Although, I never took any natural remedies to Auchi for sale, I gave my audience all the information they require to book for their health needs for total wellness, longevity and ageing gracefully.