Alfredo Darrington Bowman, better known as Dr. Sebi, was a Honduran herbalist, pathologist, and naturalist. Dr. Sebi has held various vital roles in healthcare, resulting in a comprehensive understanding of the human body and the healing properties of food. He dedicated his life to the pursuit of natural plant-based approaches for health management and disease prevention. He passed away in 2016, leaving a legacy of natural healing knowledge, philosophy, and wisdom to the future generations for the healing of all humankind. In this article, we have collected 25 Dr. Sebi quotes on health, healing, and a plant-based alkaline diet that will make you rethink the food choices you make and give you the motivation to become healthier.
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25 Dr. Sebi Quotes
#1
“If nature didn’t make it, do not take it!” ~ Dr. Sebi
#2
“It is the food that you eat that would reconnect you with the energies of life, and then the words are unnecessary because you could see. You’re connected.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#3
“Make one healthy choice every day.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#4
“For every disease in the world… restore 100% health. That’s the only way I could do it. Through what? An ultra-cellular cleansing… whether AIDs or blindness… cancer, sarcoma… lupus, sickle cell anemia, diabetes, sexually transmitted diseases… there is only one disease. There never have been two diseases in the world. There is only one disease: the compromising of the mucous membrane.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#5
“You don’t have to eat less. You just have to eat right.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#6
“Mucus is the cause of every disease. Eliminate the mucus and you eliminate the disease.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#7
“You’re made of elements. Take the time to learn the foods with high element properties in order to save your health and your body.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#8
“The human body has no place for acidity, the body is alkaline.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#9
“When CANCER is present it’s showing that there is a high level of acid condition; a very extremely high level of mitosis… It is only because of the presence of ACID.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#10
”A society that keeps cures a secret so they can continue to sell medication for huge profits is not a real society but a huge mental asylum.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#11
“Because the one thing you want to do is to LOVE, and that love should begin with you. Once you love you, you love the whole world. It’s delicious to love everybody, and everything.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#12
“It is oxygen that heals, nothing else but oxygen.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#13
“While the Mayans, Incas, and past black men only had alkalinity, they did not have the problems we have today in this “scientific” world. We receive life in the alkaline world.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#14
“Healing has to be consistent with life itself. If it isn’t, then it’s not healing. The components have to be from life.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#15
“I don’t follow leaders. The only leader I follow is my mind.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#16
“The body is not made up of any alphabetical order, it is made up of minerals and when those minerals have been deported by the presence of disease, a disease ensures. So you replace them in a natural form – in the form of plant because it is electrical. Why does it have to be electrical? Because the body is electrical. How could you feed an electric body dead food? You just can’t do it! That’s not consistency.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#17
“I cannot use the yardstick of another because I am unique like everyone else is unique.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#18
”You could have all the money in the world and if you do not have peace, then acquiring money is of no avail. But if there is peace, man, money could come later.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#19
“Food that we eat is the very substance that causes the whole hormonal structure of the body to go haywire because it’s on acid-base. So you’re going to get acid thoughts.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#20
“Real soul food is food that enhances the soul, our central sun, our melanin, our carbon. Fruits, vegetables, grains, this is the real soul food.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#21
“Keep going every day. Remember that progress is progress, no matter how small.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#22
“Starve the disease. Feed the body with mineral-rich foods with components C-H-O: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen. This means the food is alive, and will not harm the body.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#23
“Your speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#24
“It is not always easy to stop eating the many acidic foods we’ve enjoyed for so long and have become addicted to but it can be accomplished through cleansing and nourishing our bodies with the foods the Creator has provided.” ~ Dr. Sebi
#25
”Eliminate the processed foods, the hybrid foods, the GMO foods. Eat only organic fruits and vegetables with seeds. Anything without a seed is foreign created in laboratory. Check before you eat. There’s no harm in that.” ~ Dr. Sebi
We hope you are inspired by these Dr. Sebi quotes as much as we are!