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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23333, 29 April 1939, Page 13 (Supplement)

5170 the Improved Treatment More Beneficial Than Ever —NO DRUGS! Astounding Health-building Process that Banishes Constitutional Disorders by Removing the Cause, Increases Vitality in Young and Old Alike. Interviewed, Mr. O. Overbeck, the well-known scientist, made the following amazing statement. Please read it word for word, as it carries a health message of great importance to every man and woman. Mr. Overbeck said:— A friend whom I had not seen for a good many years expressed astonishment the other day when he met me striding along the street in my home town of Grimsby. "Why, Mr. Overbeckl" he exclaimed, "Have you discovered a new elixir of life? When I saw you last you were a confirmed invalid, and nobody thought you would live another six months; yet here you are dodging traffic like a youth of twenty, and looking, if 1 may say so, years younger than when we last met sixteen years ago." My friend might well express surprise, for it is perfectly true that in the year 1921 I was a confirmed invalid, whereas to-day, within sight of my seventy-seventh birthday, 1 am the picture of health, and have the energy and vitality of n young man. 1 am often asked to explain what is my secret, and I have decided to give this personal account of my experiences for the benefit of the public.

WORN OUT BY OVERSTRAIN. During the War, like so many whose weapons were the retort and the test tube, I worked double tides, living a life of terrific strain in the pursuit of new discoveries and Inventions. I was the first scientist to discover the identity of certain food principles contained in yeast with those of meat. I also discovered the dealcohollsatlon of beer et low temperature, a discovery which would have proved of great significance had the war lasted another year or two. Other researches kept me ceaselessly occupied 16, 17 and IB hours a day for long periods without a single break, and at the end of 1918 I was feeling a very tired man. Instead of taking a long rest then, as 1 should have done, I went'on with my search after new discoveries and inventions, forcing the pace by greater concentration, and putting in extra hours Personal Narrative ByO. OVERBECK the well-known SCIENTIST. HBiiiiwiliiiiiiliiwiiwiii»"ii when some experiment wont wrong and davs of effort had proved fruitless. For the first time in my life I began to feel ray age, lumbago beganto plague me, my sight deteriorated rapidly, my hair turned from grey to white, and kidney trouble, that commonest accompaniment of old age, nad begun to twist its subtle tentacles about me, more surely destroying my vitality, physical and mental. A CONFIRMED INVALID. By the time I reached the year 1921 I was beyond all doubt an infirm old man, and none the less a confirmed invalid, because I refused to be absolutely bedridden. In fact, I declined to give up hope, and when my doctor told me to make my will, as 1 had not long to live. 1 determined there and then to search for the secret of the living cell. I did not believe that so-called old age" is really a proof that the human machine is worn out. Autopsies have proved over and over again that the human machine has rarely exhausted its potentialities—after 70 and 80 years there were still decades of potential service—heart, lungs, liver, stomach, and other organs and glands all sound in themselves. What, then, was wrong? My own case supplied a clear and emphatic answer: —It was lack of energy—lack of the driving force necessary to keep the human machine running efficiently. Nature tackled the problem of saving energy by throwing off some unimportant belt here or there where she could. Thus, the hair, being more an ornament than a necessity, was the first thing to receive a lessened supply of About the same time the power belt distributing energy to the tieth was flung off, and so until at last there was not enough energy left to keep the vital organs going when that stage was reached the machine stopped. Such • was my theory, supported by

a a slight tap Is given to any one Wlf/ of a number of dominoes stood on « nd /t/ in a circle at a distance apart from each othex ' that is less than their length, sufficient to upset its equilibrium, the impulse will be distributed r ' Bht o r °" circle by " neighbourly action." Just so does Mr. ° ve *° d c b cientific process activate dormant or sleeping • vit . a jj ty asking on a stream of energy from cell to cell creates vitality nd banishes those non-active conditions that produce disease 15

evidence which seemed to me overwhelming. The next step was to discover how this energy or driving force could be supplemented whenever it fell below the requirements of the human machine. 1 DISCOVER THE SECRET OF THE LIVING CELL. It was the problem of the essential nature of the human cell and its reactions. The conclusion at which I at length arrived are fully recorded in a book of some 200 pages entitled " The New Light: A Scientist's Philosophy of the Universe." It is impossible to explain my theory here without going into details which would occupy a score or more columns of this newspaper. I must therefore content myself with saying that my researches soon convinced me that a certain kind of energy communicated to a given number of cells, would, by a process of conduction, which I gave the name of "domino reaction" (see diagram), be conveyed to the cells next to them, and so on, until the whole body was revitalised by the new stream of energy. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING. But here, if ever, I well knew, was a case where "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." If my conclusions were correct, I had only to recharge my exhausted batteries by my new process in order to get rid of all my "old age" infirmities, and rise from the couch of confirmed invalidism to resume an active life . Taking my courage in both hands, therefore, I choso myself as the most fitting subject for the experiment.