Following our show on prostrate cancer we continue the focus on men’s health.  This time we explore holistic approaches and the effect of deviation from these.  Dr Llaila O Afrika has achieved great renown in this field and his book Afrikan Holisitc Health, deals extensively with this issue so is worth quoting at length.  Whereas the female cycle is an accepted fact of life, few acknowledge the existence of a male cycle.  Dr Afrika, provides the scientific basis for this and the implications of not adhering to its precepts.

“The reproductive system of men is often mysterious and crudely explained. Typically men are considered to not have emotional fluctuations triggered by monthly hormonal changes, monthly periods of sexual excitation or emotionally controlled periods of impotency.  Men are typically described as sperm production factories and unfeeling creatures.  However, a wholistic examination of the man’s sexual cycle and system reveals the above erroneous crude assumptions as false.

The man’s cycle is a normal human event.  This event is predicated upon hormones and sperm production. Sperm usually takes between sixty to seventy-two days to develop into a mature non-sexual organism.  This organism has no sex gender (non-sexual) and must be stored in a coiled twenty-foot long tube (epididymides) during incubation.  In the storage state, the sperm must be regulated at a constant temperature which is three to four degrees below body temperature.  The temperature regulation of the sperm in the epididymides attached to the testes (ball-like organ) which are encased in the scrotum (sac-like) causes the scrotum to go up and down.  Furthermore, the scrotum moves close to the body when the sperm is too cold and droops down away from the body when the sperm is too warm.

Egyptian men would sit in very hot baths to kill the sperm. This was a crude birth control method.  This method is safer than the pill but has become outdated.  In any case, sperm temperature regulation is important to protect maturing sperm.  There are equally important aspects of the man’s sperm production cycle.

The men’s cycle close duplicates the women’s cycle.  During a twenty-eight day cycle, the man’s sperm is triggered for ejaculatory preparation by the hormones.  The hormone balance changes in characteristics between the fourteenth and twenty-eighth days to stimulate sexual intercourse.  Additionally, the body temperature slightly increases during this period.  These factors make a very favourable environment for the fertilization of the egg by the sperm.  Heat speeds up the action of the sperm and the increased heat allows for better protection of the sperm.  Incidentally, a hormone change can cause mood and emotional shifts.  These shifts may appear as stereotypical masculine behaviour such as arguments with a woman mate.  Further, these hysterical hormone motivated arguments always result in the man being right or result in what is defined as an assault upon manhood.  Manhood assaults can be behaviourally defended by the man’s usage of some puritanical ideology or religious quote to protect the man’s superior position.  Additionally, men who are unaware of hormone shifts will act out the resultant emotional shift with a monthly transference or strong emotional attachment to sports activity, aggressive sexual acts, monthly temper tantrums, a need to be catered to or babied or the monthly conflict.  These are a few of the many monthly emotional hysterical mood behavioural actions.  Besides this, there are other factors which are part of the man’s cycle.

Minerals have a cycle and any organism that contains minerals has a cycle (Biological Rhythms in Human and Animal Physiology by Gay Gaer Luce).  Consequently, the internal organs have a cycle (sequence) of activity and inactivity.  These cycles are influenced by the predominant mineral that the organ contains.  It follows that the body has a cycle.  This has been documented by biofeedback research.  The man’s body is composed of nutrients, called minerals.  Notwithstanding, it has to have a cycle because the minerals within it (the body and sperm) have a cycle.  This cycle is confirmed in the Mineral Kingdom in Pre-Egyptian and Egyptian science.  Besides, a Hindu physicist Jagadis Chandri Bose presented scientific proof (year 1901) to the Royal Society of Physiologists and they denied it was minerals and declared it muscle tissue studies.  However, todays electronic monitoring of minerals scientifically indicates that minerals have a cycle, respond to drugs, stimuli and music.  In fact, minerals have a reaction similar to vegetables and animal muscle tissue.  So it follows that, anything that contains minerals will have a cycle.  However, men are not conscious of the wholistic (body, mind, spirit) content of their cycle, so, they presume that it does not exist. The cycle does exist because minerals zinc and selenium are highest in the semen.

At the end of the sperm cycle the sperm deteriorates.  In other words, sperm dies (just as the egg of the ovary dies) and its mineral nutrient content is recycled in the body.  The multiple death of the sperm triggers another sublime hormone shift.  Furthermore, this shift arises because the thyroid gland and progesterone, estrogen and testosterone hormones must acquire another ratio.  A new ratio will cause the development of new sperms which are new from the next twenty-eight day cycle.  Nonetheless, this sperm production cycle  is ignored and men abuse sex by constantly ejaculating sperm.  This causes a decrease in the cerebrospinal fluids (brain cells) needed for new sperm production.  Multiple ejaculations within a month causes a decrease in the cerebrospinal fluid needed for the brain which results in dull thinking, dull sensitivity and limited wholistic (physic, spiritual) growth.  It follows that sexual abstinence increases the trace mineral accumulations in men and increases the quality of sperm. The cerebrospinal cycle (rotation) is a factor in sperm quality.

Sperm is ejaculated in a fluid base.  The sperm in the fluid may amount to a teaspoon (2%), while the major portion of fluid is 60% seminal and 38% prostrate fluid.  Prostrate fluid is clear, seminal fluid is yellow and sperm is clear.  The fluid that is first released from the penis is from the Cowper’s gland and neutralizes the acid of the urine residues.  Additionally, this fluid quality is dependent upon the natural nutrients used to compose it.  These natural nutrients are derived from a natural diet, balanced thinking and spiritual forces.” (p. 1276-8)

“The natural rhythm of the body indicates that between the hours of 10am and 2pm, the bodily temperature, responses, respiration, eye blinking, pulse, etc., increase.  It follows that the physical peak for the human body is reached during the day hours, not the night hours… in a natural holistic state, the periodic mating season occurred according to a solar (sun reacting to force) rather than lunar periodicity.  Thus sexual intercourse took place once a year during the springtime in monogamous and polygamous cultures.” (p. 205, p. 206)

“The black wholisitc female/male relationship is a relationship based upon total upliftment.  Total upliftment is a combined effort towards the physical, mental and spiritual elevation of the marriage unit and of children, culture, society and self.  Relationship with total upliftment is the essence of the African communal (interrelated, harmonious sharing) society typified by wholism.  Contemporary relationships are distorted by lustful sex and the chattel slave mentality that Negro men must love Black women is if they were White women and Negro women must love Black men as if they were White men.  This results in unholistic relationships that use European values as the standard of love.  Unfortunately, this causes psychological enslavement of the mind.  Consequently, relationships between Black men and women are deteriorating just like relationships between White men and women.  Actually Black wholism is an African cultural reinstatement by a different name.” (p. 181)

Reference:

Llaila O Afrika (1998) Afrikan Holisitc Health. A&B Publishers Group

we ask the question:

Divinity, sex, love and health – What’s the connection?

1) Did you know about the male cycle?

2) What are the implications of acting outside of it?

3) Is sexual intercourse once a year sufficient?

4) Do Black men really “Black women is if they were White women”?

5) What is “Black Wholism”?

Our Special Guest:

The Rootz Doctor: is an experienced Naturopathic practitioner, journalist and broadcaster.  He is a columnist for The Whirlwind Newspaper and hosts a show on Omega Radio