The Reason I Write

Since the late 1960s, I’ve been studying holistic health. The reason I write is because I feel compelled to share the valuable and sometimes crucial knowledge I’ve gained with family, friends, and with anyone who cares about their health and the health of their loved ones. You may have read one of my articles on social media, in various publications, or on my website www.marjanbooks.com. 

As an author, I’m known as Marjan, the name my parents gave me in the Austrian refugee camp where I was born. I’m 75 years young, married to a gal I met 53 years ago, have 5 children and 18 grandchildren that I love dearly. I’m not a licensed medical professional, but my material is meticulously researched, backed by volumes of scientific data, reinforced spiritually, and interspersed with over 50 years of personal experience.

When I was two months old my parents immigrated to America. I was a rebellious child and squandered my young adulthood as an emotionally dysfunctional outlaw living one step over the edge. Until I published my memoir, 600 Devils, I had never told a soul about my extraordinary, secret life. Not even my wife knew the details. I pray that my literary revelation will bring hope to anyone suffering from alcohol abuse, drug addiction, emotional problems, anger issues, or PTSD. My saga may even encourage truth seekers. 

Presently being considered for a miniseries, 600 Devils is an intergenerational struggle that stretches from the war-torn Julian Alps during WWII to the impassible jungles of Shan State in Burma, to a shady senatorial subcommittee inquisition in our nation’s capital. Straddling multiple worlds, and after dealing marijuana in my early twenties, I graduated and became a personal assistant for a Corsican gangster who was arguably the most successful smuggler in my era. Along the way, my life was heavily impacted by mobsters, psychedelics, cops, conmen, assorted holy men, and a senator that hired me to infiltrate a man the FBI labelled the world’s greatest conman. 

My story extends well beyond the adrenaline-pumping escapades of international intrigue. Never your typical outlaw, I spent my leisure time circumventing the globe and could often be found at the feet of holistic practitioners, or studying on some remote tropical beach. Forty-five years ago, I made a life-altering decision and quit the criminal underground for the rugged beauty of Montana. My decision wasn’t just a change of scenery, but absolute redemption. For the next 30 years, my wife and I raised our children in the wilderness, cultivated an organic garden, tended a 36 foot greenhouse, and wildcrafted in the forested mountains surrounding our home. 

Drawing knowledge from worldwide sources, the time-tested healing regimens I practice include fasting, detoxification, organ cleanses, natural remedies, organic foods, and most of all, PREVENTION. Western medicine offers several medications that are not only beneficial, but lifesaving. Regardless, I discourage the use of pharmaceuticals whenever prudent. Synthetic drugs don’t cure people and many have severe side effects. Insulin, polio and smallpox vaccines, ether and aspirin are a few of the exceptions and have been proven to be highly effective. Antibiotics, the most useful prescription of them all, treat a wide range of infections caused by bacteria and have been estimated to have saved up to 300 million lives.  

Through the years, I’ve developed an inherent compassion for those suffering needlessly with health issues and I write to expose the corruption fostered by the profiteers who control the greedy and unconscionable food, beverage and chemical industries. I also write to expose the politicians, lobbyists and federal regulators that enable them. Our planet is being systematically poisoned by industrial pollution, glyphosate, pesticides, plastics, GMOs, food coloring, 56 synthetic sugar substitutes, drugs, alcohol, toxic household products, and 350,000 synthetic and mostly untested chemicals. No one is immune. 

Microplastics are now found in almost all sea life and in our soil, drinking water, as well as in most humans, animals and plants. 280,000,000 tons of plastic waste and 2,000 new chemicals are being introduced into our environment every year. When these synthetic toxins invariably combine, they create chemical cocktails that cause serious health problems for humans, plants and animals, such as disease, fatigue, cancer, diabetes, obesity, ADHD, various mental problems, interference with growth and brain development, irreversible reproductive issues, and a plethora of mystery illnesses. Chemical cocktails are a neglected threat and the adverse impacts from mixture effects can be triggered even when each chemical is present at low concentrations. What is at stake is the health of current and future generations. 

Thankfully, there is an immediate and effective way to deal with this terrible dilemma. By fasting one day a week, eating organic food, and by practicing three day cleanses, one for each season, I’m continually flushing toxic chemicals and other impurities out of my body. Coincidentally, I just returned from my annual wellness checkup. The lab results from my blood test were near perfect, and actually improved from last year, which validates the health regimen I practice. My mind is sharper now than it was 40 years ago. My doctor said that my test results are not normal for people my age, as nine out of ten seniors over the age of 60 are on one or more pharmaceutical drugs, and for more conditions than we can list.   

There are profound reasons why so many of our elderly are becoming drug users for the rest of their lives. Our bodies are marvelous machines that can take a lot of abuse and detox a lot of toxins, but the body has limits. As we grow older, chemicals gather in our organs, tissue, blood or fat cells. When the accumulation is more than the body can handle, the body breaks down, usually at our weakest point. With the growing list of toxins in our environment, it is no surprise that people inevitably deteriorate as they age. Sure, we all grow old, but I say, “Why not grow old as healthy as possible?”

By combining science, history and spiritual wisdom, Fasting Firepower, by Marjan, details the priceless and undeniable health benefits of fasting and detoxification. Celebrated inventors, philosophers, and every great spiritual leader has fasted. Health is the greatest treasure and the material I share is real. Fasting works folks, and has worked since time immemorial. The miracle of fasting can move mountains in your life that can’t be moved any other way. No one should lead a debilitated life for lack of this vital information. The straightforward answers may surprise you, challenge you and quite possibly save your life.