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NON-SCENTED TOXIC FREE

2007-12-16T16:43:00.000-05:00

While i'm on the subjec of toxic mold indoors, I wanted to share a new site i found thanks to an article in wholife magazine a few weeks ago. The site is called nonscentedtoxicfree.com and it is just filled with amazing information on toxins we find ourselves exposed to an a daily basis yet have no clue!

There's even products you can order, and they cover everything, all the way down to clothing detergents, fabric softners, soaps, and anti-static sheets. My the amount of phosphates, aluminium, lead, cadmium, chlorine and plastics we're exposed to and a daily basis just floored me...i felt disgusted with myself after learning what the choices i was making were doing to my body.

I now feel very empowered and have a greater awareness of what's around me since reading the information on this website. Please pay a visit to nonscentedtoxicfree.com today!

no posts the last 2 weeks

2007-12-16T15:55:00.000-05:00

Greetings everyone,

I'd like to apologize for not posting until now. On the day of my last post, I spent the evening at my partner's cousin's house, babysitting their two young children. For the 1st time in months i felt fantastic, my stamina knew no end! then about 1 hr after getting home i felt horrible again. This is when my partner and i began to suspect something in our apartment could have been at the root of all my health problems these past couple of years.

The next day i went on a little treasure hunt around the apartment and my god what did i find in our spare bedroom (which we never used and kept closed most of the time)? Black mold spores everywhere on the walls, the baseboards, along the wood of the windows and inside the closet. Take a look at these pictures...

Completely disgusted, I emailed my landlord the pictures. The very next day he called asking if he could come over and see it for himself. He told us that we should leave immediately. Then had an inspector in the next day, this inspector said we could stay in the unti while there is black mold. That his crew will begin tearing down the walls and be running an air purifying machine while they work. I've watched Mike Holmes of Holmes on Homes and the fact this inspector/contractor said that SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME!!!

So then, our landlord agreed to not charge us rent for Dec if we had to stay there all month since finding a place and moving out by Dec 1st when it was Dec 26th was almost impossible.

But I can now tell you that the law of attraction really does work. After calling dozens of places with no callbacks, and being told by everyone to get rid of my 3 cats because nobody rents to pet owners anymore. I got fed up, and in despair closed my eyes and literally yelled commands to the universe to give me an apt that is representative of us, had brand new windows (always had ventilation problems prior), good quality security system, a pantry to stock up on food (we love to cook at home and always had problems with storage), and built-in a/c system so we don't sweat to death in the summers. Well, as I was doing this, my partner had a gut feeling to check the online rental listings once again, and found this one that had just gone up. The superintendant couldn't show the place until the weekend, when we explained that was too late for us, he offered to show it to us later that night.

To our amazement, it was in a small building that had a new security door system installed recently, all suites had new windows and carpet installed the month before, it had built-in a/c in all units, adn the super loved cats, he had 2 himself!!!! and this apartment was in a building with no children, only young professionals, it's located 3 blocks away from my partner's work downtown, and 2 houses up from the city's top sushi restaurant, and 1 block up from 2 large drugstores, and an organic grocery store and vitamin shop. Now for the best part, it's $50/mnth cheaper than our old place!

So we called the super back that night and he told us it's ours if we wanted it. He didn't even have our last names yet, and gave us the keys! So I've been busy throwing out old clutter and evacuating the mold infested basement apartment. Good thing too, because we found a dead mouse in the mold infested room too!

Now that i'm nicely settled into my new place and after 8 days without internet, finally have all my utilities installed. I'm feeling better than ever!

Don't underestimate the power of a few little black mold spores on a window sill. If I would of known, i would of saved myself lots of problems a long time ago. Immediately after being out of that place, i had enough energy to do housework and go walk outside. This whole time thinking it wat my thyroid and weight that disabled me. Now i know that our homes can be killing us slowly and most of us don't even know it!

Liver Flushing 101 - The Flush (congenital diseases? yes! you can flush too!)

2007-11-23T11:46:00.000-05:00

Now that you have all your 'ingredients', you're ready to do the actual flush. Unlike most other cleanses you hear people doing, the goal of this cleanse is not weight loss! This cleanse will not weaken you or tire you out like other 'fasting' and 'colon' based cleanses. The main purpose of this cleanse is healing. People have healed many 'incurable diseases' just by flushing the accumulated junk it their livers and gallbladders. When people ask me why they should flush their livers I hear a lot of fear in their voices. I tell them it's the exact same principle as doing an engine flush on your car. The oil accumulates residue (stagnant bile), sludge (crystalized cholesterol), if you leave it in there too long it will develop into grit (gallstones). The pistons won't move as effortlessly as they used to (begin having aches/pains/headaches/food intolerances you never had before). If this keeps up over many years, the engine starts breaking down (disease) and you'll end up having to replace parts (surgeries). See the connection here? Good! Let's begin
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YOU MUST HAVE BEEN TAKING YOUR GOLD COIN GRASS (1tbsp or 10x3g tablets am) FOR AT LEAST 6 DAYS BEFORE DOING THE FOLLOWING

Flush day schedule

WARNING: YOU ARE NOT TO CONSUME ANY REFINED SUGAR, BUTTER, FATS, OILS, NUTS, CHEESE, DAIRY OR PROTEIN DURING THIS DAY - AND NO VITAMINS, HERBS, MEDICATIONS OR SUPPLEMENTS UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY (like your hydrocortisone, prednisone, decadron, pariet, neurontin, celebrex, etc...).

REASON WHY? YOUR LIVER WILL BE TAKING ON A LOT LATER TODAY SO IT'S NOT ADVISABLE TO GIVE IT ITEMS THAT ARE HARD TO DIGEST BEFORE HAND - THAT'S ALL.

Morning: Eat a light sugar/fat/protein free breakfast. This may be hard if you are hypoglycemic like me or diabetic. But don't worry I've found a way to do this flush without blood sugar crashes. Best meal to eat is oatmeal! Have a nice big bowl of steelcut oats, multigrain oats, cream of wheat, or 7 grain hot cereal. This will give you the low GI you're looking for.

Snack: You may eat fruit, I recommend bananas because the high potassium will assist you with dehydration once the stones come out. ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE CAH, ADDISON'S OR CUSHING'S OR ARE ON STEROID BASED ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AS THERE ROB YOUR BODY OF POTASSIUM.

Lunch: Eat oatmeal again or brown rice with brocoli with soy sauce. You can steam a large amount of vegetables or make a huge organic mixed greens salad with fat free dressing. Or do all of the above. Many will advise against over eating at this meal but I've found it doesn't matter.

*Note: I sometimes add vegetable protein (roasted tofu cubes, Edamame, kidney beans, refried beans) to my lunch to regulate my blood sugar. Listen to your body, if you're feeling a little light headed, eat some protein with your lunch, you'll feel much better the rest of the day. I have never had problems with the outcome of my flushes from eating protein during my flush. I've never eaten animal protein though, remember - EASY AND FAST TO DIGEST!

Snack: more raw veggies with lemon pepper spice or lemon juice/salt, a baked potato with fat free dressing, more oatmeal. Or eat nothing if you're feeling ok - it's up to you!

**** This (1-2pm) is where most liver flush regimens will advise you to start fasting but having hypoglycemia due to a congenital adrenal condition, going for 36hrs without food or juice isn't possible. But it is ok to eat something solid after 1pm. I've done it at every flush and was fine, never went to the hospital with blocked bile ducts, adrenal crisis, vomitting or dehydration - NEVER! But I will recommend you try as best you can to not eat anything solid, like my gastroenterologist said to me: only clear fluids, if you can hold it up and see through it you can drink it! What is a clear fluid high in potassium and will maintain your glucose levels? hmmm.... and the winner is: APPLE JUICE! yes, I purchase 3 tetra packs of apple juice at every flush. I sip on apple juice throughout the day after 1pm. Sometimes it sustains me other times it doesn't. That's when i'll have a bowl of rice with almond milk heated in the microwave with a dap of honey and cinnamon. it's delicious!

6:00pm sharp: prepare 3 cups of spring or distilled water in a jug. Add 4 heaping tablespoons of the epsom salts. Add 1/2 teaspoon of vitamin C powder, and a couple of squirts of lemon juice. Stir until all the salts are dissolved. Take a straw and drink 3/4 cup of the mixture now. Try not to take more than 5 mins to drink it. Do not drink any juice or water for 20 mins afterward. Go back to your normal activities. You may drink water and/or juices freely. You will find that the epsom salts will make you feel bloated and full. You won't want to eat much starting here.

8:00pm sharp: With a straw, drink another 3/4 cup of the mixture. Try not to take more than 5 mins to drink it. Do not drink any juice or water for 20 mins afterward. Go back to your activities.

9:30 pm sharp: Pour 2-4 cups of spring or distilled water into the enema bag. Lie down on your right side. Place the enema bag at least 3 feet above ground (4ft if you want more momentum) and release the clip to let the water flow. Stop when you feel "full", massage your belly, release the water again, and again, and again, until you really really feel "full". Stay still in the fetal position for at least 2-10 mins. Then go to the bathroom.

9:50pm: pour 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil in a measuring cup. In another measuring cup or shaker jar. Pour 1/4 cup of lemon juice then add 2/4 cup of orange juice. You now have 3/4 cup of your acidic mixture. Pour the 1/2 cup of olive oil into it. Put the lid on it, and shake vigorously for at least 2 mins.

10:00pm sharp: Stand up beside your bed, set your alarm for 6am, take a gravol (to fall asleep and control the nausea during the night), PEOPLE WITH CAH, ADDISON'S OR CUSHING'S - YOU MAY TAKE AN EXTRA 50-100MG HYDROCORTISONE (OR 1MG DECADRON) TO HANDLE THE STRESS YOUR BODY WILL BE UNDER DURING THE NIGHT, have some honey (chaser in case you gag - i never needed it) available. Place a straw in the cup and take slow steady sips of the mixture until it's gone. It shouldn't taste bad, but may burn the back of your throat like strong lemonade - this is normal! Do not take more than 15mins.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT SPEAK! Lay down on the bed and turn on your right side (fetal position) DO NOT SPEAK! stay still for a minimum of 30mins. The gravol should kick in and you'll fall asleep anyway. You can also put some headphones on and listen to meditation music like Stephen Halpern's Chakra Suite.

*Note: You may wake up in the middle of the night with nausea, discomfort, headache, and body pains. This is from the release of toxins from the liver. You can drink as much water or juice as you'd like. Remember: You just took epsom salts to dilate your bile ducts (prep), then forced your liver to 'sneeze' by ingesting a large amount of fat in a short period of time forcing it to dump huge amounts of bile into your intestinal tract. Taking whatever obstacles (stones) in its path down with it.

6:00 am sharp: Drink another 3/4 cup of the epsom salt mixture. Return to bed or stay up it's up to you. Don't forget to set your alarm for 8:00am if you go back to bed!

8:00 am sharp: Drink your 4th and last 3/4 cup dose of the epsom salt mixture. Please don't skip the 3rd and 4th doses, you will regret it. You must keep those bile ducts dilated so no stones get stuck.

*Note: You will now begin a series of bowel movements. This is the flush in action!

Things you may see come on during your movements:

white foam (this is chaffing or cholesterol crystals)
tiny green stones (cholesterol stones)
white or black stones (calcified calcium stones)
reddish green water (stagnant bile)

Contrary to what people may say to you...These really are from your liver and not things stuck in your colon!

You may set a plastic bag or paper towel on the vanity counter and with a tea strainer, strain out the stones and take a picture. I know someone who was so shocked that he had a 2" black calcified stone pass painlessly. He had it cased and now shows it to his patients (yes he's doctor).

9:00 - 9:30 am: Begin eating light foods, you can even take your vitamins, minerals, and supplements. Listen to your body. Don't over do it.

*Note: it is extremely important to stay hydrated because you will be having at least 6-12 very watery bowel movements in less than a day! IMPORTANT: PEOPLE WITH CUSHING'S ADDISON'S OR CAH YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST 100MG HYDROCORTISONE (OR 1MG DECADRON) ON TOP OF YOUR MORNING DOSE - THEN SEE IF YOU NEED MORE AS THE DAY PROGRESSES.

HAVE SOUPS AS THEY ARE HIGH IN SODIUM, EAT BANANAS AS THEY ARE HIGH IN POTASSIUM. These are my favourite natural replacements for saline IVs:

V8 Vegetable cocktail: with 300mg potassium and 400 mg sodium per serving it's better and hospital saline or gatorade.
Gatorade: perfect mix of sodium, potassium, and glucose. All things lost during dehydration.
miso soup w/nori: trace minerals in seaweed paired with high sodium, potassium and probiotics to replenish intestinal flora.
Rice with soya sauce: again high in carbs and sodium. Perfect meal to keep you from dehydrating.

Symptoms you may feel throughout the day:

Nausea: Don't worry it will slowly dissapear - by 3pm you should feel better
Migraine/Splitting Headache: This is from the extreme release of toxins (like a cloud of stagnant dust from an air filter) passing through your system. You may take an Advil (no Tylenol) if it's too much
Fever: if you have an adrenal condition take more hydrocortisone and an Advil!
Chills: same as above

Keep drinking and eating and take at least 6-8 acidophilus tablets throughout the day. This will help replenish your intestinal flora lost during the flush. Making sure you don't get a Candida infection.

Next day: Eat light still, give yourself another enema to clean out any residue of the flush. This is very important. If stones get stuck in your feces and stay in your system, you will get very ill due to the toxins in your blood. So please do the 2nd enema.

THAT'S IT YOU SURVIVED YOUR 1ST LIVER FLUSH - EASIER THAN YOU THOUGHT WASN'T IT?

Liver Flushing 101 - The Prep

2007-11-18T14:50:00.001-05:00

If you Google "liver flushing" you'll find a crazy confusing mess of ways that claim to be the best. Leaving you to experiment with your body, sometimes making things worse than they were before. There are only two ways I approve of when it comes to liver flushing: Dr. Hulda Clark and Andreas Moritz's methods. My personal favourite is Andreas Moritz's way, but even then I've modified it slightly to accommodate my body's needs. So without further due here's my own recipe to successfully get rid of liver and gallbladder stones without ending up getting an ERCP in the Intensive Care Unit.
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Ingredients

Stone Softeners

Gold Coin Grass: 1tablespoon (or 6 tablets) in the morning 30mins before breakfast for 6 days (Ex: Sat-Fri). Do not miss a day! Do not skip this stone softening preparation or else you will feel pain! This is what makes the stones soft so they slide down without getting stuck. I believe 90% of the flush's success depends on this part. +Gold coin Grass is the strongest stone breaker there is, much stronger than the traditional Malic Acid tablets. You can buy Gold Coin Grass online from sensiblehealth.com or you can get it in pill form from your local Chinese medicinal herbs shop. *Note: If you really can't find GOLD Coin Grass or order it online. You must do your preparation with Malic Acid Tablets.

Malic Acid+Magnesium Tablets (must have minimum 1,200mg malic acid per tablet!): Take 2 tablets in the morning 30mins before breakfast then take 2 tablets before bed. Do this everyday for 6 days (Ex: Sat-Fri). Just like with Gold coin Grass, Do not miss a day! Do not skip this stone softening preparation or else you will feel pain!

DO NOT MIX GCG WITH MALIC ACID!
TAKE ONE OR THE OTHER NOT BOTH!!!

Bile Duct Dilators

4 tablespoons EPSOM SALTS (Magnesium Sulfate) mixed in 3 8oz glasses (3 cups) of filtered or spring water - Not the foot bath stuff but the laxative stuff. If you are allergic to Epsom Salts or the taste is too hard to handle and it makes you gag. You can use CITRO-MAG.

4 tablespoons CITRO-MAG (Magnesium Citrate) mixed in 3 8oz glasses (3 cups) of filtered or spring water: It's the stuff you drink before a colonoscopy.
You may find that if you don't have a gallbladder (like me) Citro-Mag won't be strong enough to open those small liver ducts. You will have to use Epsom Salts which is why ++I've found a way to improve the taste without dulling its effects.

DO NOT MIX EPSOM SALTS WITH CITRO-MAG!

TAKE ONE OR THE OTHER NOT BOTH!!!

Liver Bile Stimulators
4oz (1/2 cup) extra virgin olive oil: Don't use any other kind EVER!

6oz (3/4 cup) orange juice/lemon juice mixture: they don't have to be fresh squeezed and the ratio of one to the other is up to you. I found the more lemon juice there is, the more it burns my throat, but don't remove the lemon juice completely. What I found works best is 2/4 cup orange juice to 1/4 cup lemon juice. You can also use pink grapefruit juice instead of orange, but most people gag at the taste combination.

Containers
2 pint jars with a lid: one for your epsom salt/water mixture and one for your olive oil/juice mixture.

Colon Cleaner
Home Enema Kit: Not the disposal enemas, this is a water bottle with a plastic tube+stopper. It is used to clear your colon before and after the liver flush. Only distilled, mineral or spring water can be used. DO NOT USE TAP WATER - the chlorine, lead, aluminum, etc... will damage your colon wall. Do not skip this step as your body may become toxic if stones get lodged in your feces.
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+Warning: You may get a fever, chills, nausea, lower back pains, ear aches, headaches, migraines or muscles aches while taking the Gold Coin Grass. This is because the herb is breaking down the stones and some small ones may end up passing on their own. This releases large amounts of compacted toxins from your liver causing and immune response on your body. If you suffer from an adrenal insufficiency disorder take 400-600mg of Advil and 100-200mg of hydrocortisone (1-2mg Decadron) immediately! This will keep your body from going into adrenal crisis or shock. You may also take 50mg of Gravol if the nausea is too strong. Gold Coin Grass and/or Malic Acid may hinder the effectiveness of certain medications especially anti-depressants. People taking anti-depressants may suffer from withdrawal symptoms in addition to the above detoxification symptoms.

++ Add 1tablespoon of Vitamin C powder (ascorbic acid), 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, and 1 few drops of stevia or xylitol to the 3 cups of water/epsom salt mixture.

Liver Flushing - I saw the stones, now a believer!

2007-11-18T14:21:00.000-05:00

I know many of you think the cleansing ritual known as "liver/gallbladder flushing" is a load of B******T and that you also believe it's physically impossible for the liver to hold stones. All my life I believed the same thing, I was afraid of these crazy cleansing rituals I'd hear about - like liver flushing. My answer to everything was: "No I can't do things like that, I have an adrenal insufficiency, it could kill me."

"If your liver had stones in it, it would rip, bleed and you'd die. Besides you shouldn't be putting your body through crazy things like that, you have an adrenal insufficiency, you could die!" That's what one of my doctors, his office nurse and the chelation clinic nurses both told me when I told them of my plan to try liver flushing. Imagine how comforted I was to hear those words from supposedly "highly trained medical professionals". But I gave it a go anyways. Of course, having an adrenal insufficiency, I had to go about it differently than most.

I'm happy to report that I've now successfully done 5 liver flushes, and preparing for my 6th as we speak (I'll explain what that means later). I'm now a strong believer in liver flushing for getting rid of countless medical problems and regaining a state of mega health.

It took me 4 flushes before stones started coming out. I had my gallbladder removed so I actually began to think I really didn't have any stones in my liver (like the nurse had said). Because i was putting myself through discomfort with no results. I had even stopped for 4 months because I didn't think it was doing anything, until the 5th flush. I must have passed over 600 stones that day. YES, 600, it's no joke. I have the pictures to prove it!

As a matter of fact, why not show you? Don't worry it's not that gross folks. Here's a picture
of stones passed on my 1st ever liver flush in march 2007.

This was collected after one movement. I had about 5 others that day, none of which had any stones. Notice the size of the stones? It was like I had dead ants in the toilet!

There there were the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th liver flushes. All of which gave nothing, zilch! I took a 4 month break during summer. Then tried to do it a 5th time. This is what I collected during one movement. I had over 7 that day, all full of stones. Check this out...

I ever put a penny near them to show you the size of them. This was in my liver people! Imagine how swollen and congested my liver ducts must of been? And don't tell me those are nothing but oil beads from the hardened olive oil you drink during a liver flush either!

Now that you've seen the kind of results you can get through liver flushing, let's talk about how to get there ...

mercury free tuna - there is such a thing, kinda

2007-11-16T14:20:00.001-05:00

Believe me, even making small changes like buying organic more often, switching from purées, jams, boiled and steamed veggies to eating more raw fruits and veggies, and giving up fish do make a huge difference in helping your body heal. Healing is all about reversing cellular breakdown. This means you need lots of vitamins, minerals, and water to get the job done. Your body not only has to sustain itself, but has to repair decades worth of damage, talk about overtime!

This post is for those of you who really really really still want to eat tuna. There is a way to consume tuna and salmon with virtually no exposure to mercury. Most canned tuna has at least 13% more mercury than the 0.5ppm maximum deemed safe by our government. However, there are some local companies who sustainably fish tuna and salmon. Their fish becomes virtually mercury free because they kill the fishes at a very young age so they don't get years of mercury, pcb, and malchite green exposure like mature fishes get. The worst fishes for mercury exposure are sushi grade Ahi Tuna and albacore tuna. The reason being: they're huge, they've been swimming in infested waters for years so all parts of their flesh are polluted with mercury.

If you want to eat fish but are conscious of your heavy metal exposure and you're in the US seek out Vital Choice. If you're in Canada get Raincoast Trading tuna and salmon. The taste and texture will be very different that what you're used to. They don't rob the fish's omega fatty acids by 2nd cooking it like traditional fish factories do. They only cook the fish once, so you get a much fattier fish.

WARNING! Those of you used to the taste of fat free canned tuna may not like mercury free tuna! It's higher in calories, higher in fat, kind of slimy, and has a very strong fishy smell and taste. You can't just dump the whole can on your salad like you do with regular canned tuna!

Honey after surgery?

2007-11-13T15:20:00.001-05:00

Looks like surgeons are being told to use honey to cover pinhole wounds after laborascopic surgeries. Take a look at this article and this one and this one

Did you know that honey was commonly used to heal wounds, but in the 40's when antibiotics became approved, surgeons were pushed to use them instead and honey was dropped?

Ignorant of what could heal us for cheap because Big-Pharma is at it again, geeez...

Could Aspartame be killing us?

2007-11-13T15:00:00.000-05:00

Although research has proven that the increases in diseases such as MS, Lupus, Autism, Allergies, and Fibromyalgia in children and adults has been linked to an increase in exposure to toxins and to nutritional deficiencies due to poor absorption, again linked to an increase in cell toxins. See the following for details:

None have been linked directly to Aspartame. I do agree that aspartame has been said to be a dangerous toxin and causes many symptoms in people,

Fox News Channel 5 even did a 10min segment on the dangers of Aspartame

There's even an email being sent warning people on the dangers of Aspartame. It's written by a lady who's on a personal mission against Aspartame, no one knows if what happened to her sister is a true story.

Please take the information with a grain of salt (even mine!), do your own research and find your own truths about artificial sweeteners.

Naturally of course, our bodies are still running off the same model it was 10,000 years ago, so I doubt it would know what to do with aspartame. It's always best to keep things as natural as possible. What's wrong with drinking water, coffee w/cream/honey, rooibos tea, yerba maté, Acai, and natural fruit juices? They're filled with enzymes and trace amounts of minerals like potassium, iron, and magnesium.

Plus we can always go back to using honey, apple sauce, and blackstrap molasses to sweeten our foods....like we did 1,000's of years ago. One tbsp of molasses has more iron than a steak! Honey never goes bad (they found some in King Tut's tomb and it was still eatable!)

I personally stopped using artificial sweeteners and my blood sugar levels are fine and I haven't gained any weight from switching to honey and molasses.

My Health Protocol

2007-11-13T11:37:00.001-05:00

For those of you who are curious to know what I was "prescribed" by "The Wonders" to reverse the damage done to my body. Here is my exact health protocol. I've been following it to the best of my ability. I'm not taking the Ginko and the Billberry anymore. After taking the Gingko Biloba at 60mg per day, I got dizzy and had heart palpitations. Then after taking the Billberry extract at 60mg, I got heart palpitations, felt "wired" at night, and couldn't sleep. Now you know why I stopped. I'm not taking that calcium-magnesium-d dosage, i'm taking 1,800mg/day. Every time I tried taking 18,000mg of vitamin C, I'd get really bad diarrhea, bloating and heartburn. So I stopped taking the powder and switched to the chewables. I now take (3x 500mg =1,500mg) chewables 3x daily.

Here's the health protocol I was given:

Castor oil pack 2x daily for 42 days

18,000 mg Vitamin C (divided doses 6x daily)

Vitamin E 800IU (divided doses 2x daily)

Calcium-Magnesium-D 3,500mg daily (1,200mg 3x daily)

Milk thistle extract 4x daily

Co-Enzyme Q10 250mg/day (divided doses 2x daily)

Billberry Extract 240mg/day (preferrably in evening)

Gingko Biloba 250mg/day (divided doses 2x daily)

EDTA Chelation Therapy (30 treatments - now switched to magnetic clay baths)

40% complex carbohydrates

30% protein (65% vegetable protein, the rest can be animal based, but doesn't have to be)

30% essential fatty acids (switched to coconut oil, flax seed, hemp, and olive oils)

Organic Food only

21 cups (5L) of Spring Water only (switched to 3x 18.5L bottles from Prairie Spring Water every 2 weeks)

Liver flushing - 18-26 flushes depending on how many stones pass per flush

Maintenance schedule of 2 liver flushes per year ongoing

PCA-RX 2x daily for chelation maintenance

Like I said in my previous entry, I've now mastered how to safely do liver flushes with salt wasting CAH or any other adrenal insufficiency (addison's, cushing's). I will post my instructions shortly, check back soon for the details. I've stopped eating insanely high amounts of tuna and salmon or any other fish for that matter, and eventhough was denied treatments from the chelation clinic because of my adrenal condition. I learned how to safely give myself 23 chelation treatments in the comfort of my own home. So to all of you nay-sayers out there, I say: "Yes, it is possible to detoxify safely even if you have a congenital adrenal insufficiency." The human body is the human body. Unlike what we've been told by doctors and advocacy groups, its processes of elimination and reconstruction are no different for us than for others. We just need
a little more support than others while going through it that's all. Don't worry, I've experimented on myself, made myself go through hell. Now I have the answers, I'm here to give you instructions.

How gallbladder surgery ruined my health - part 4

2007-11-13T10:30:00.000-05:00

I continued my quest for answers by researching "good quality" psychics in my area. I came upon a psychic named Bryan Hood. He didn't do readings but he ended up talking to me for over 2hrs for free!!! During our conversation he recommended I seek a very gifted "medical intuitive" he called it. Then referred me to a man who channeled entities called "The Wonders". It turns out this man's name was Réné Gaudette, an accountant turned deep trance channeler from Ontario, Canada.

Just like Bryan Hood warned me about, this channeler's fees were much higher than any other channeler I had looked into. But I wanted some answers and if that was the cost of getting my answers so be it. Thanks to my mother's help, I was able to schedule a 30 min private session with "The Wonders" for march 5th, 2007.

It was the most enlightening experience of my life. I was given exact names of vitamins and minerals to take, plus dosage and frequency. I was also given "ancient remedies" I guess you could say. I was told the length of time to expect before my body would be back to normal, and what led me to my point of ill health. WOW! It was a lot to take in in such a short amount of time. I had to sit and listen to the fact that what I thought was a healthy diet of 2-3 cans of tuna a day, pasta, 8cups of tap water a day, daily showers using body wash, deodorant, perfume, shave gel, advil for occasional soreness, Decadron 2x daily for my adrenal insufficiency, etc... Was in fact slowly making my body toxic and my thyroid and liver were caving in!

I cried that night, cried hard, I wasn't expecting this new information, I didn't know anything about "toxins" in food. I wasn't ready to hear that what I was going through was a symptom, a culmination of my past lifestyle choices, that my lifestyle had to change or else my body would no longer keep up. I believed my doctors, my specialists, what I had been told since the age of 4 years old, I found safety in that information, it made sense to me. Realizing that it was following their advice that got me into this health mess was a tough pill to swallow.

When I woke up I had a completely different outlook on life. It was like a thick veil of fear had been lifted from me and replaced with one of empowerment.

So I went shopping for my "materials" and began my "health protocol". I've now been following it for 8 months and feel much better. I've done 5 liver flushes, 42 days of liver detoxing with castor oil packs, 23 EDTA chelation treatments, and stopped eating fish and wheat. What a difference it makes! Who knew I had Candida, a toxic liver, weak adrenals, poor digestion, and a pinched common bile duct thanks to my surgery?

I've had to conquer many preconceived ideas and concepts about healthcare, safe vitamin dosages, and what is best for my body in order to get to where I am today. All my life I was told that because I have CAH I can go into "crisis" doing (these crazy) cleanses people talk about. That my body will always be fine as long as I take my medication 2x daily for the rest of my life. I was never told it would slowly suck the calcium out of my bones if I didn't take calcium supplements. In fact, not a single doctor told me to take calcium supplements while taking Decadron growing up! No one even recommended that I not drink Cola or alcohol while taking Decadron either (they both add stress to the endcrine system). No one ever told me that it would slowly suck the potassium out of my blood and weaken my heart. Last but not least, no one ever told me that a side effect of taking Decadron or corticosteroids is a fatty liver and gallstones due to poor cholesterol and fat assimilation.

Believe me when I say that I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger and stronger! But I have no regrets, this experience has made me expand my awareness by leaps and bounds. I feel like I warped through 50 years of growth in just 8 months (yes it is possible for someone to change that much that fast if they're ready and open to it). I am still changing and expanding, my journey isn't over...it will never be over!

I know I will get through this alive, it might take me 2-3 years, but what's 2-3 years of physical suffering if you'll get an eternity of abundance in return?

Life lesson # 3 - It's my life!

2007-11-12T15:46:00.000-05:00

Life Lesson # 2 - Relax take it easy

2007-11-12T15:43:00.001-05:00

Life lesson #1 - Sing Hallelujah

2007-11-12T15:38:00.000-05:00

How gallbladder surgery ruined my health - part 3

2007-11-12T13:08:00.000-05:00

Because it was "assumed" that I had a stone stuck in my common bile duct. I had to have an ERCP to remove the stone. Not a pleasant experience believe me. They spray a horrible chemical down your throat to freeze your gag reflex, then they lay you down in the fetal position on this cold x-ray table, and drug you with 75mg of Demerol so you're so sedated you can't open your eyes let alone function (it's almost like being put down for surgery!), then they put a plastic piece in your mouth and ask you to try and swallow. All I remember is something pocking me in the bottom of my stomach. No pain, nothing. The doctor told me there was no stones there, and left me in the waiting room until the Demerol wore off and my gag reflex came back. I was returned back to my room to wait until my emergency gallbladder removal the next day. Looking back now, I could of made a fuss and asked to be discharged, go home and look into other ways of removing gallstones without surgery, but back then I wasn't the type to challenge doctors.

The surgery went well, I immediately felt lighter on my right side, and was ecstatic to hear that I no longer needed a restricted diet. I was sent home to finish my recovery 2 days after my surgery with orders to stay home for at least 3 weeks. Once I felt better I started working at a new job, and believed I finally had my life back.

Not true, this was only the beginning of a whole new nightmare. 8 months after my surgery, I went for my routine checkup and was told I had an underactive thyroid. A what? How? Why? This made no sense to me, hypothyroidism doesn't just "happen", something has to set it off I told my doctor. He became irritated by my questions, and I became irritated by his lack of answers. He fired me as a patient and I fired him as my specialist. So started my quest for answers on what had happened to my body. I immediately went to the internet for answer and found an article on hypothyroidism written on Dr. Gary Null's website (sorry but it's no longer there). Here's a clipping of what it said:

Article written by Martin Feldman, M.D
Found on http://gnhealth.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1013 (no longer there!). It talks about rare cases of hypothyroidism that aren't caused by auto immune diseases. This article is what made me wonder if that's why my TSH levels went back to normal when I was switched from dex .625mg to hydrocortisone 30mg and understeroided.

PERIPHERAL THYROID IMBALANCES. Even when the central regulation is working properly, the thyroid system may still be dysfunctional at the peripheral level, where T4 is converted to T3. If this conversion process does not work properly, a low thyroid condition also may result because the level of free T3 is insufficient. The thyroid effect at the cellular level is inadequate. You may produce sufficient amounts of T4 but still have the symptoms of underactivity because the conversion aspect of the thyroid mechanism has faltered. Factors that can reduce the conversion of T4 to T3 include a restricted intake of carbohydrates, nutrient shortages, enzyme deficiencies, chronic illness, heavy metal exposure, increased glucocorticoids or high-stress states, and imbalanced estrogens. Stress can inhibit this conversion process by elevating cortisol.

"LOW URINARY T3 Causes:Endocrine causes - High oestrogens, high cortisol. Low T4, low GH (Growth Hormone), low androgens.Drugs - antiinflammatory, antidepressants, lipid drugs, cardiac drugs, high soy. It may also be due to cortisol excess, global nutritional deficiency, or T3 to T4 conversion problems. These conversion problems are caused by iron, selenium, iodine, growth hormone and androgen deficiencies or cortisol and oestogen excess.

So I thought I had it! My dose of Decadron was now too high because I was missing my gallbladder and my body was now absorbing more of it than before. All I have to do is reduce my dose, that's easy. Or so I thought...

For over 1 year I tried redusing my dose by just 1/4 tablet and after 5 days or so would go into adrenal crisis...understeroided. It's a horrible feeling believe me. During this time, my health kept getting worse. My digestion was still horrible, I had watery stools, heartburn, my morning nausea/gagging was back, and forget eating raw veggies, dairy, sauces, spices or red meat, I'd be bent over in pain and gas every time I ate such foods. I was gaining weight at a rate of 7-10lbs/mnth by this point. I had horrible foggy head, dizziness, body aches, and hot flashes too. Eventually my menstruation stopped, and a sense of depression came over me.

By this point I had gone to see these "specialists" for answers:
2 endocrinologist
researcher at NIH
CAH Foundation
Reiki practitioner
Family doctor
5 psychics
1 tarot card reader
1 palm reader
1 naturopath

I was given various "root causes" and unsuccessful treatments, including:
Decadron dose too high
reduce Decadron
start drinking red wine
stop drinking coffee/tea - only rooibos herbal teas
don't have celiac but sensitive to wheat
mucus buildup in colon
leaky gut
take digestive ezymes with every meal
IBS
cold body (chinese medicine)
damaged liver
drink milk thistle tea
weak bones
weak thyroid
weak adrenals
low testosterone, progesterone, androstenedione, DHEA-S
switch from calcium carbonate to microcrystalline hydroxyapatite complex (MCHC)
take porcine thyroid drops
take porcine adrenal drops
IBS clinical hypnotherapy reprogramming program (100 days)

and just like I said in my Yeast Infection Entry, I now had the following health problems:

insulin Resistance
Polycystic ovary syndrome
Dysmenorrhea
pasty white coating on back of the tongue
vaginal yeast infections and discharge
burning during urination yet no bladder infections
tinea versicolor
joint pain/extreme upper back, shoulder and neck pain
abdominal bloating
chronic diarrhea
IBS
acid refulx
GERD
Gas
phlegmy throat in the mornings
blisters in my mouth
restless sleep/insomnia/nightmares
night food cravings
sweet tooth
brain fog/foggy head/poor concentration/forgetfulness
chronic sinus congestion/infections/dryness
headaches
bleeding gums
burning eyes/eyes blur when reading
depression/ irritability/personality changes/mood swings
body chills during the day/excessive sweating during sleep
dizziness
food intolerance (cheese, red meat, milk, beans, raw foods)
tingling sensations in my feet, hands and ears
vertigo
hypothyroidism (under active thyroid)
low testosterone/androstenedione/progesterone/DHEA-S levels (hormonal imbalances)
jock itch (diaper rash) and rectal itching
hemorrhoids

It was now march 2007. I was 29 yrs old, over 350lbs, been let go of three jobs due to my health, had to write off my car, exhausted my savings, and my 9 months of employment insurance. To make matters worse, most of our friends believed I was faking my "ill health" and had decided to let myself go. Taking advantage of my partner emotionally and financially now that we were married. What a blow to my ego! Me? the type A, the ambitious worker, the constant provider, the "I'll never need anyone" independent one, losing her financial and physical independence? Having to be 100% supported by her spouse? My friends judging me, thinking I was capable of taking advantage of the one I loved like that?

WHY ME? WHY NOW? THINGS WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY - DO YOU HEAR ME???????????

How gallbladder surgery ruined my health - part 2

2007-11-12T11:33:00.000-05:00

After that horrible low blood sugar crash. I stopped my Atkins diet and decided to go back to a diet I knew worked for me. No red meat, no chicken, no dairy, lots of canned tuna in water, complex carbs at every meal, high protein, low raw foods, root vegetables only (potatoes, yams, etc...), a multi-vitamin, walking (on my gazelle this time), and counting calories.

I had started in late october 2003, and by may 2004 I had lost 60lbs! My morning nausea and constant gagging was gone, and I was now light enough to go for walks concrete sidewalks outside without getting painful heel spurs or shin splints. It was at this point that my weight loss efforts were challenged. During a routine afternoon powerwalk around my apartment building complex. I tripped and rolled my left ankle on a deep sidewalk crack. I thought I had just rolled it, but my visit to the clinic the next day proved otherwise. It was broken! So 10hrs later, I walked out in crutches with a cast. This was the 2nd time I had broken my left ankle, way to go! So for 6 weeks I couldn't put pressure on it. Then for another 8 weeks I had to walk with an air cast. No longer able to workout, I stopped losing weight. I didn't gain anymore either which was good.

During this time, my now wife, moved in with me and I became a vegetarian again. Unfortunately, my nausea and gagging was slowly coming back along with intense chest/upper back pains. It was becoming so painful and so frequent that I became a regular at the local emergency room. It wouldn't matter what I ate, everything was hurting me while going down. I became so weak and so scared. Every hospital visit was the same: "We did blood work and stomach x-rays, everything looks good, must be anxiety or something you ate. We'll give you something for the pain and for your stomach and you'll be good to go OK?" All they would give me is 50mg Demerol and 40mg Pantaloc (antiacid). Would it make me feel better? sure, but it made me feel weaker too.

This charade of weekly ER visits went on for close to a year. I sometimes would have to leave work the pain was so bad (the whole time praying that I don't die). One "attack" was so intense I vomited steady for 2 hrs and had a 105F fever. I was kept overnight and given over 600mg of Advil, 40mg of Pantaloc (stomach antacid), and 100mg of hydrocortisone to make it through. I was released the next morning because after doing blood cultures, blood work and x-rays, they found nothing wrong with me...again! Blamed it on the take out I had eaten earlier and let me go.

I wanted answers so bad that I started exploring the world of alternative medicine. the first thing I tried was Reiki, I had four treatments in total. They worked wonders on my phobias and anxiety attacks. After my first treatment, I felt like the whole world could blow up and wasn't afraid. My anxiety and phobias vanished just like that! Even my fear of flying was gone and was able to experience flying in to meet my future in-laws! I was less angry, less controlling, and less fearful of change. I knew something (outside myself) had happened to me during that Reiki treatment. So I decided to learn Reiki for myself and began doing daily treatments hoping it would also "cure" the cause of my digestive pain.

Can you believe my health continued deteriorating for another 9 months after this incident and the daily Reiki treatments? It reached a point where I could no longer work. The pressure/pain in my upper back/chest area became constant. I had stopped eating all forms of meat except tuna in water. I had also stopped eating any kind of raw fruits and veggies. Only juices, soda crackers, canned tuna, and fat free chips didn't "hurt" me.

Until one day, on October 3rd 2005, after having salmon and rice for lunch, another BIG attack hit me. I tried taking my (then) usual cocktail of 4 Gas-X tablets, 40mg Pariet (insanely high dose I know!), 50mg Gravol, 400mg Advil, and waiting 1 hr to see if it went away. Meanwhile, I'd be feeling very faint and shaking.

This time, it didn't work, I had to go to the ER. They didn't have enough beds, so I had to wait in a wheelchair in the lobby. Two hours later, I asked to just go home. Once home, the pain for worse and I could no longer walk. So an ambulance was called in. I returned to the ER in ambulance, again, no beds, I had to wait. Finally, after being put on an IV and having a series of blood work done. They found my liver enzymes over 400% higher than normal. I was passing stones and one got stuck! Emergency gallbladder removal was scheduled...Happy Thanksgiving to me!

How gallbladder surgery ruined my health - part 1

2007-11-09T10:36:00.000-05:00

You've been reading my posts everyday for about a week now not knowing very much about me and why I'm here posting about my health issues. Giving tidbits of information on alternative health therapies and supplements you may have never heard of. This is going to change as of today!

Even though I was born with a rare adrenal disorder called Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH for short), I have always had a very strong constitution you could say. I didn't get sick or run down during childhood, teen years or early adulthood (unlike most children with CAH). Being on prednisone, cortisone, florinef, and finally decadron made me struggle with weight and appetite all my life. By the age of 14, I was 5' 0", 290lbs with an IQ of 130, and suffering from anxiety attacks.

I was terrified to leave home, I stopped going to school (so I'd have my work sent home and kept an A average all through highschool) and was crying everyday. Until one day while walking outside, an elderly man was walking twice as fast as I was. He walked right passed me because I was going too slow! That was it, something had to be done. So even though I was on decadron and florinef (2 very powerful corticosteroids that make it virtually impossible to lose weight) I was determined to lose my weight. Being in a family of bodybuilding enthusiasts, I began eating a high protein "bodybuilder" type diet. At first I couldn't go for walks, so I did the Richard Simmons Sweatin' to the Oldies VHS tape. After 6-8 months of staying home and following my strict routine of counting calories and exercising once a day. Going to bed with my heart pounding out of my chest and hunger pains so bad I'd have headaches. I managed to lose approximately 60lbs.

I went back to school, by this time I was in grade 11 (yes I had skipped 2 grades) and things were rolling along great. By the age of 16, I was in my 1st year of college weighing in at 145lbs. I had lost 135lbs and was now a size 13, yay! I had changed my whole existence and I looked hot. I was doing a full day of walking around campus, go home, and still have enough energy to power walk for 60mins while eating only 1,000 calories! Excessive you say? Looking back, yes it was, I was always hungry, I would get dizzy sometimes, and go to bed starving every night. But the weight was coming off at a rate of 2lbs a week, nothing too abnormal. Back then, I believed that it was what needed to be done in order to lose weight while being on corticosteroid therapy.

Although my weight loss was successful and I looked and felt amazing. You need to know that my new weight maintenance wasn't successful. After 2 years of restricting myself I was overcome with a powerful desire to reward myself for all the work I had done. My biggest mistake was not rewarding or pacing myself while losing. So I began eating "regular meals" again. I'm not talking about eating out or eating fast food and treats everyday here. Even at 290lbs I never ate out or had fast food and sweets. Believe me when I say, I was never attracted to those types of food and still aren't. No, I began eating portions that would satisfy me, and added chicken and beef to my diet (I was only eating kidney beans, tuna, and tofu dogs for protein). After moving out on my own, I began eating more convenience foods like kraft dinner, hamburger helper, and tuna helper. Because I just didn't care to prep my meals as much as when I was living at home. I was making a good income and wanted to be like everyone else, and buy my lunch at the cafeteria. To me, this was a right of passage, I was never able to buy my lunch at the cafeteria while in highschool, being 1 of 3 children of a single mother, we just didn't have the money. Now that I had my own money, I did!

This is when I developed more bad eating habits and started eating out and ordering in. The weight was coming back and I had stopping caring. Next thing I knew I was 196lbs, then 210lbs, then 250lbs, and finally 288lbs again at the tender age of 26. This time I began having horrible nausea every morning. My nausea was so bad I'd be gagging mid-sentence. I'd gag at least 6 times just walking to my car! I was popping TUMS like candy, and straining to do my work while on Gravol. I was an IT helpdesk analyst, believe me it was hard.

I was scared, I kept going to my family doctor looking for answers. He gave me prescription strength Zantac 150's and ordered stomach ex-rays. I was feeling weak, tired, and had constant pain in my upper back. The tests came back negative for ulcers, and acid reflux damage, but he prescribed me Pariet a proton pump inhibitor (the strongest antiacids possible) saying that my symptoms were probably from the damage years of taking decadron had done. He also told me I had lots of gallstones but not to worry of them. I began taking the Pariet, it relieved my upper back pain, but didn't stop me from gagging.

That day, after being told "something was wrong" with me, I drove home feeling scared. "I'm not sick, I've never been sick, I was told all I'd ever have to do is take 2 little pills every and I'd be like everyone else, healthy!" "This can't be happening to me now, I'm only 26." Are the only phrases running around in my mind. I wasn't equipped to deal with any of this. My anxiety attacks returned suddenly while I was doing groceries. The tunnel vision, the sweats, the dizziness, the heart pounding. I dropped my cart and ran out to my car then home to safety. Ouf! that was a close one.

This is when I became convinced that the gagging was from too much fat pushing up against my stomach and the only way to fix it was to lose the weight...again. Ten years later, I was back at square one: too large to go for walks and my anxiety attacks were back. Why did I let this happen to myself a second time? Didn't I learn my lesson the first time? What was wrong with me? Didn't I love myself enough to stay healthy?

Unable to drive by myself anywhere, I was in pretty bad shape. Believing that losing weight would solve everything wrong in my life (because it had before remember?).

Looking for a quick and easy way to start losing my weight without aerobics. I bought the Greer Childers BodyFlex workout video, guaranteed to give you a full aerobic workout in just 15mins. ok then, sign me up! What a disaster, it was a video teaching you a sequence of strange deep breathing exercises that get you out of breath so your heart ends up beating faster without moving. It even had a disclaimer saying not to do it after eating or you may vomit! Nice! Anyway, I would gag every time! Not for me Greer, sorry...

Then I bought myself the Tony Little Gazelle slider along with The Atkins New Diet Revolution book. For over 2 weeks, I started my days off with a salmon fillet with a slice of melted cheddar cheese on top while riding my Gazelle Edge. That thing was amazing, during my first weight loss journey, I purchased free weights, rowing machines, step benches, and stationary bikes. I'd get tired of them. But I never got tired of my Gazelle. I recommend it to everyone, it's the best workout and replaces going for walks/jogs when it's cold or raining outside.

I was well on my way, I had lost 14lbs in 2 weeks, wow! I was in ketosis and was doing great. Until one day while being driven to work by my partner at the time, I had the worst hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) attack of my life. I was dizzy and shaking and thought I would collapse. We had to pull in to the nearest restaurant, a wendy's, and order 2 burgers and 2 large fries. I ate them all! I felt a little better, but this didn't help my agoraphobia and anxiety. Not understanding what had happened to me just then, I was terrified it would happen to me again, this time with no one around to help me!

MSG just let me be for pete's sake

2007-11-08T16:44:00.000-05:00

Yes, yes, yes....what's the fat chick ranting on about now you say? Well my partner brought home the new pringles select for me to try yesterday. One bag was sweet potato/cinnamon (yeah , weird I know) and the other was sundried tomatoe (yum!). I immediately looked at the ingredients list (because that's just what I do), and couldn't believe the amount of crap they had. I mean, oat flour, rice flour, wheat, soy? Why can't they just take a bunch of potatoes, peel them, run them through a slicer, bake them 'till crispy perfection, sprinkle them with seasoning, and throw them in a bag? Is that so hard? And why oh why put MSG in some of your products and not all? The sundried tomatoe chips have MSG and the sweet potatoe ones don't. Explain that.

For those of you who don't yet know what MSG is (maybe you were too young during the MSG buzz years) MSG stands for Monosodium Glutamate, a white powder substance used as a flavour enhancer, mainly in processed foods and Asian cuisine. When I wikied MSG, I found out that it's an amino acid derived from things like mushrooms, tomatoes, seaweed, and some fermented soy products. Can't be all that bad now can it? Think again my friends, Vodka is derived from potatoes and it can be very toxic, wine is derived from innocent little grapes and it can too be very toxic. Ethanol is derived from sweet looking canola seeds and it can do lots and lots of damage if you ingest it. So don't go around saying: "yay! MSG isn't so bad after all" just yet. This is a very powerful substance with toxic effects. Many people get intense allergic reactions when ingesting it.

I decided to have the sun dried tomato chips anyway. I had taken my MMS about an hour earlier and felt great. Then about 30 mins after eating the chips, I was overcome with nausea, my face went beet red, I began getting chills, shaking, feeling disoriented a bit, basically sick inside. This went on for hours, then my hives and itchy skin came on. I had no choice I had to take a benadryl to cancel the histamine response of my immune system. Plus double up on my hydrocortisone dose because of the adrenal insufficiency I was born with. Then went to bed. Had a great night sleep. Woke up this morning with diarrhea. MMS sure does work at getting rid of toxins uh? I have never ever felt like that ingesting MSG before. I've always been one of the lucky ones in that aspect. But now that I'm taking my MMS everyday, I'll think twice before eating chemicals. If you still don't believe me...

Here are some examples of what MSG can do:

A 2002 report from researchers at Hirosaki University in Japan found rats fed on diets high in MSG suffered eye damage. Lead researcher Hiroshi Ohguro said the findings might explain why, in eastern Asia, there is a high rate of normal-tension glaucoma.
Monosodium glutamate has been shown to indirectly cause obesity in lab rats by downregulating hypothalamic appetite suppression and, thus, increasing the amount of food the lab rats consumed

But don't take my word for it. For more information on the devasting effects of Monosodium Glutamate, read Dr. Russell Blaylock's article or visit Healthdangers.com. The MSG debate has been going on since the 70's, and we now know it's not a necessary ingredient. So what's keeping it from being removed from all foods? There's a million other ways of seasoning potatoe chips people...just don't pick that one!

Restaurant food could be worse for me than fast food?

2007-11-08T16:31:00.000-05:00

Why is it that large chain restaurants don't have nutritional information on their menus? Every single fast food place does. Even the small pita joints have all the details right on the wall so I can make an informed decision as to which meal fits best within the caloric protocol of my day.
But if I go to a large chain restaurant like B***** P**** they can't tell me how many grams of fat is in my jambalaya with garlic bread. Everyone should have the right to know what is in their food. Why did our government deny a bill that would make that happen? It's my body, I should have the right to know what goes into it. After watching CBC Marketplace's episode on large chain restaurants yesterday, I was totally repulsed by how stupid our companies....oh excuse me....sorry....associations and governments think we are. The fact is that we're still being treated like kids "here eat this" "why?" "because I told you to" "but what's in it?" "it's fine just eat it". Sound familiar?
Watch CBC Marketplace's video clip on large chain restaurants. It'll make you want to bring home cooked food with you wherever you go. That's what I do!

THREELAC - Miracle Candida Cure?

2007-11-07T11:44:00.000-05:00

Today's my 3 rd day on the Threelac powder. The instructions said to begin with 1 packet a day, wait and see how bad the die-off side effects are the next day, then increase if you can handle it. Well I didn't think a little 1/2 tsp of yellow powder could be that powerful so I took 2 packets the first day. OMG! What did I do? Yesterday evening at around hmmm 8pm, I broke out in hives, my ears and my face were red and burning up, and I got chills! I checked my temperature...uh, look at that...normal!

I tried to tough it out, but when the headache kicked in, I gave up and took an advil and a benadryl. I felt much better and went to sleep. Had a great night sleep too BTW. The first time in weeks. I took my morning dose of Threelac again this morning. I love it because unlike acidophilus tablets, you don't have to wait 30mins after meals or 2 hours after anti-biotics to take it. After pouring it in my water glass, I took time to look at the ingredients list. My god! I had no idea how many live probiotics 1 packet had. Over 225 billion! Each acidophilus tablet I was taking only had 10 billion, and wasn't coated for stomach acid protection either. What a difference a good quality probiotic makes. But at $89 CDN for a 1 month supply, I don't know if I'm committed yet. I know there's an even more powerful product called Fivelac and it's around $72.50 Us for a 2 month supply (because you can only take 1 packet a day). But if I order directly from the US, I'll have to pay shipping and duty charges. So that's why I don't mind paying more from my favourite canadian distributor because it ends up being faster and cheaper. They shipped the product out on wednesday evening, I got it at 9am on monday which is great when you really need to get your candida reduction protocol started ASAP. The only problem is they don't sell Fivelac.

MMS - Miracle Mineral Solution - My 1st attempt

2007-11-07T10:42:00.000-05:00

There's been a lot of "buzz" about MMS out there this past year. Even world renowned intuitive healer Andreas Moritz (author of the amazing liver and gallbladder flush) is recommending it to his patients. I got to be honest with you here and say that I thought this would be another bulls***t product. Any product title that starts with "miracle" tends to raise my eyebrows. So I just had to order a bottle for myself because I can't diss it or kiss it without trying it can I?

After waiting 3 weeks, I finally received my bottle last week and been taking it daily for 5 days now. So far I haven't felt anything major except on the first day of taking it. I had a nasty headache from the die-off of my yeast infection. My headache went away within 30 minutes, and I had energy the rest of the day. I felt great.

I'm up to 5 drops a day now, and don't feel anything. I've been told that's a good sign. Meaning I don't have any bacteria or viruses floating around in me. I'm not gonna stop taking my MMS. I haven't had a chance to really challenge it yet, but after reading the book and listening to several interviews with it's creator Jim Humble. Looking at what I got for the price I got it at. A 2 year supply bottle for $20! I've stopped taking my (expensive) 9,000mgs/day of Vitamin C and replaced it with MMS. Because if 6 drops of MMS in 1/4tsp of vinegar and 1/4 cup of juice once a day can be as powerful as taking 3,000mg of Vitamin C powder 3 times a day. That spells C.O.N.V.E.N.I.E.N.C.E to me and I'm all for it!

If I ever catch a cold, flu or get food poisoning again. I know I'll be turning to my MMS to get rid of it ASAP! It may not be pretty, but it won't last days or weeks that's for sure!

If you want to know more about MMS and how it can help improve your health. Listen to Jim Humble's Interview on the Talk For Food web radio show. They discuss many issues around using MMS instead of chemotherapy for cancer treatment.

You can also read the entire 1st portion of Jim Humble's E-Book for free. He explains how he came to discover how acidified sodium chlorite was curing people of malaria during his visits to africa. The book is filled with scanned images of letters he received from various doctors in africa who were using MMS for malaria, etc... It's self published so the grammar isn't great. If you can get past that, it's a good read.

So far, MMS has been successful in treating many diseases without side effects. Cancer, HIV, AIDS, malaria, e.coli, etc... MMS is being used for all of the above and more, including immune system support.

If you're now ready to try MMS. I recommend ordering it from Global Light they're reliable and cheap (under $20 for a 2yr supply of MMS!). That's where I got mine from and 3 weeks later, I got exactly what I ordered.

Can a special diet help children with autism?

2007-11-06T12:34:00.000-05:00

For those of you out there who think Playboy Models are brainless silicone bags, think again. Former Playboy Model Jenny McCarthy was on The Ellen Degeneres Show speaking about her new book today. She wrote a book called "Louder Than Words" about her struggles as a mother of an autistic son.

She mentioned how she had discovered that her son was feeling ill inside and this affected his ability to use some of his physical abilities. She said that once she put him on a no gluten/no dairy diet he began to do better. She got a little chocked up at the part where she told the audience that one day her son told her: "Do you remember when I was shy?" which showed that he was very aware. It's just that his body wasn't able to let his thoughts out the way others can.

After hearing that, I began believing what I had read on the connection between childhood autism and toxic imbalances in the body. Read "Doctors suspect autism linked to toxins"

That got me thinking, if a mixture of toxins (mercury, lead, cadmium, tin, chlorine, malachite green, aluminum, ammonia, titanium dioxide, melamine) which we are exposed to on a daily basis. Plus an vitamin absorption problem due to low acid/high bacteria environment. Can end up causing powerful diseases such as autism. Could it be the root cause of my high hypothyroidism, adrenal exhaustion, low testosterone/progesterone levels, low DHEA-S levels, low androstenedione levels, sinus infections, tinea versicolor, nausea, GERD, and IBS? Just yesterday Dr. Oz mentioned that research is showing that a vitamin D deficiency could be causing the sudden increase in hypothyroidism amongst adult women.

I don't have 100% proof yet because I haven't had blood work done since I've started taking the Threelac powder. But I do know that I didn't feel this good this quickly while trying to reduce my hydrocortisone dosage and taking mega doses of vitamins, supplements, and chelation.

For 2 weeks I've stopped eating wheat. It's been brown rice and quinoa for me. I drink rice or almond milk, don't touch soy very much either. I gave up fish unless it's from local fresh waters or from my father-in-law's fishing trips. You should of seen me when I was able to eat a nice piece of moose steak and I didn't have an "IBS Attack". For 2 years I thought I couldn't eat red meat anymore because I didn't have a gallbladder! It always triggered gas so bad I'd be in the fetal position screaming and crying for hours with a heating pad on my belly. Now no problem, bring it on!

All this and I'm back at the old/high dose of hydrocortisone I was always on. When I was told that being over-steroided was the root cause of all my sudden health problems!

Spit to me Candida!

2007-11-06T12:28:00.000-05:00

If after reading the previous post, you now think you may have Candida. How can you know for sure? Doctors don't have quick and easy ways of telling you for sure. But there is a way. It's so easy you'll think it's a joke. But believe me it works. Take a glass of water and spit in it! Yep!

it's all about the way your saliva drops to the bottom. No one knows exactly why the way your saliva breaks down is different if you have too much yeast in your system, but it does. You can find the complete Candida Test here

Yeast infection...me? But I'm a guy!!!

2007-11-06T09:44:00.000-05:00

As you know, I've been struggling with strange health issues for some time now. I've tried all sorts of traditional and herbal remedies. Of these, some worked at making me feel better and others just made me feel worse (see my other blog entries for details).

During this time, my body was trying to tell me something else needed to be addressed but I wasn't aware of the signals. You see, I started having the worst nasal congestion and occasional sinus infections about the same time as my other health problems surfaced. I also began feeling fatigued, and my TSH levels started rising yet my T4 (thyroid hormones) were normal. I began having dizziness, and foggy head so bad I couldn't concentrate at work anymore, and cravings like you wouldn't believe. I'm talking about craving foods I never used to crave. Like jambalaya platters at Boston Pizza, Garlic Bread Sticks, pasta, pasta, pasta, chocolate, and fruit juices. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, my stomach rumbling so bad I'd be light headed from it. I'd have to eat over 800 calories of carbs and protein before feeling satisfied. I was gaining weight at a rate of 7lbs a month during this time. I knew something was off with me, I was afraid, I was trying everything possible to control myself and my cravings. Mind over matter right? Well I discovered it wasn't that easy. I would try and meditate through it or give myself Reiki treatments. Still, nothing made it go away. The headaches and blood sugar drops were too intense to ignore.

When I'd go to my doctor and my endocrinologist, they would blame these cravings on imbalances caused by all my vitamin and supplement experiments. I was told my hormone levels were low but no cause for concern. Even though my period suddenly stopped for 8 months and I felt like crap.

Then one day I woke up so itchy. I was itchy everywhere, mainly my groin area, my lower back, my under arms, and my chest. I was always itchy and burning before, especially after going to the bathroom, but this time is was intolerable. So I went to the walk-in clinic. This is when I remembered something similar happening to me just 2 months earlier. I had gone to the same clinic complaining of intense burning during urination. I was tested for a UTI, and examined. They found no trace of infection but lots of swelling and discharge. I was given anti-fungal creams and 3 tablets of Diflucan. I felt much better after. So when this doctor examined my skin, found nothing and was going to prescribe me Claritin. I mentioned what had happened to me before. He gave me Diflucan again. This time I felt better again. I was finally on to something here...

So I went to ye ol' Google and I looked up "Candida". Page after page after page, the lists of symptoms:

pasty white coating on back of the tongue
vaginal yeast infection or vaginal discharge
burning during urination yet no bladder infections
skin problems - dry itchy skin/skin rashes/eczema
joint pain/arthritis /extreme upper back, shoulder and neck pain or tightness (need to "pop" your upper back to breathe better)
constant stomach problems (abdominal bloating, chronic diarrhea, constipation, acid refulx, GERD, and heartburn)
phlegmy throat in the mornings
blisters in the mouth, throat and on the tongue
red spots on the tongue, blotches on the tongue
unrefreshing sleep/insomnia/nightmares
brain fog/foggy head/poor concentration/forgetfulness
restless legs, jumpy legs
chronic sinus congestion/infections/dryness
migraines/headaches/sinus headaches
bleeding gums and lots of metal/mercury fillings in teeth
burning eyes/eyes blur when reading/light sensitive
depression/ irritability/ anxiety/ panic attacks/ personality changes/mood swings
body chills during the day/excessive sweating during sleep
dizziness and balance problems
digestion is worse when eating beans/raw foods/gluten/casein (cheese protein)/wheat
tingling and/or burning sensations in the face or extremities, including feet, hands and ears
recurring ear infections
hypothyroidism (under active thyroid)
low testosterone/androstenedione/progesterone/DHEA-S levels (hormonal imbalances)
jock itch (diaper rash) and rectal itching (may be confused for hemorrhoids)
chronic athlete's foot

By this point I had every symptom on the list!

I told my brother about my recent discovery and to my surprise he started telling me about all of his health complaints (which he ignores most of the time). He had the same problems I did...worse even! His jock itch gets so bad his skin cracks and bleeds! He even told me he gets smelly discharge where his thighs meet his groin and has to keep going to the bathroom during work to clean himself up.

When I told him this could mean a yeast infection, he of course said: " But I'm a guy!"
This is when I decided to see what could get rid of my candida for good. When I read about what Diflucan does to your liver (it's no wonder they only give it to you for 3 days max) I swore I wouldn't take it again, besides it only gave me temporary relief. I read up on "the Candida" diet and my gosh, no way! I'm hypoglycemic, I need my 40% carbs. There had to be a way to get rid of my yeast overgrowth or "Candidiasis".

BTW "Candidiasis" happens when the ratio of good bacteria (i.e: L. Acidophilus, L.Bifidus, etc...) to bad bacteria "Candida Albians, etc..) is off. Normal digestion requires 85% good bacteria, 15% bad bacteria. But things like anti-acid medication (Nexxium, Prilosec, Pariet), high wheat, yeast based breads, and laxatives. Can create an environment where the bad bacteria can thrive to eventually outgrow the good. Sometimes even breaking bast the intestinal wall and getting into your blood. Causing your histamines to respond (this is where the itchiness comes in), and wrecking havoc on your immune system. This makes sense because your immune system is always so busy attacking these "foreign intruders" that when a virus (like the common cold) comes in, your immune system is already to exhausted, the cold wins and you get a cold.

So what's the best thing out there for a good "Candidiasis: cleanse? Well you'll find tons of stuff acidophilus tablets, garlic oil, coconut oil, oregano oil, etc... and millet or gluten free breads. I tried them all and the only product that gave me immediate results was THREELAC. If you're in Canada the best place to order it from is http://www.1stcandidacure.com/. If you're in the US, you can order it directly from http://www.globalhealthtrax.com/ or visit http://www.candidasupport.org/.

You will most likely suffer from "yeast die-off" that's when the yeast molecules explode in your system as they're being attacked by the good bacteria in THREELAC and your symptoms intensify for a short period of time. Try and take it slow with just 1 packet a day to see how much "die-off" you get. Then increase the dose to 2 packs a day. In 1 month you'll feel much better. I lost 2" on my waist in a matter of days and my nasal congestion was gone overnight!

Skin...Meet Glycerin, Cetyl alcohol, Ethylhexyl Isononanoate, Cetheareth-20, Dimethicone, Benzyl alcohol, Laureth-7, Methylbaraben, xanthan gum, etc..

2007-11-05T10:58:00.000-05:00

Again, I was looking at the ingredients in one of my skin creams. This is yet another high quality brand name skin cream. Claiming that "This non-greasy, fast-absorbing lotion contains rich emollients and vitamins to moisturize for a full 24hrs to improve the look and feel of skin, leaving it softer and smoother." Really? Wow!

Just one question though. Since when did "Dimethicone", "Tetrasodium EDTA", and the other 27 hard to pronounce ingredients become vitamins?

And correct me if I'm wrong here, but the human body, this humanoid form that we use to get around this earth. Was seeded like what 3,000,000+ years ago?
Since then it's gone through a few changes to acclimate to its environment.:

Pliopithecus
Pronconsul
Dryopithecus
Oreopithecus
Ramapithecus
Australopithecus
Paranthropus
Advanced Australopithecus
Homo Erectus
Early Homo Sapiens
Solo Man
Rhodesian Man
Neanderthal Man
Cro-Magnon Man
Modern Man

So we're running off of ver 15.0 which is something like 150,000 years old right? So can someone tell me how our skin will know what to do with "Magnesium Aluminum Silicate"?
Our skin was never designed to "understand" what to do with that compound or any other non-organic chemical we slap on our skin.

Would you moisturize your cows and pigs with those chemicals? No! Why not? Because you know you have to keep everything they touch and ingest natural or else it will affect the taste of the meat and/or give them diseases. Right. So if we're mammals like them, why aren't we doing the same for ourselves? Do we really have so little love and appreciation for our bodies that we don't care about what it's exposed to internally and externally? Yet, expect it to always perform 110% when we want it to. Sounds like how most people treat their cars doesn't it?

Give it the cheapest oil possible because it's just something that "gets in the way", don't lubricate or clean the main engine parts or suspension. Just wait until the part gives out to take it in to the shop, get it removed or replaced. Sounds a lot like our way of looking at health care doesn't it?

I spent a lot of time in my brother's auto shop. I learned a lot there too. The best times were when people would spend hours and hours putting various products on the exteriors of their cars. These cars looked amazing on the outside. But when you'd lift the hood, my god! horrible...

Gunk so thick you couldn't read the stickers anymore! Belts so dry they'd squeal, thinning break pads, and they'd go over 10,000kms without changing their oil! Yet always complained about performance so they'd constantly buy the latest performance enhancement gadget hoping that would fix the problem. Again, sound familiar? See a connection here? I do.

Our bodies were designed to live hundreds of years if you go by what the Bible tells us. So why aren't we living as long as Moses or Jacob anymore? What happened?

We tell ourselves that thanks to breakthroughs in vaccination, health, lifestyle management, and cardiac care we now live longer than we ever have. I think we're kidding ourselves, it's a total LIE!

The average life expectancy today is what 80 for women and 72 or so for men? Whooptidoo!
Ramesses II lived to be 91 years old, had 110 children, and was born in 1303bc.

Michelangelo lived to be 90 in the 1500's.
The first famous female renaissance painter Sofonisba Anguissola lived to be 98, also in the 1500's.
The Marquis De Sade, father of sadism, lived to be 74 in the 1700's.
Heck, even one of my ancestors dating back to the 1800's lived past 90, Louise Chabot being the oldest at 102 in the 1700's.

So don't tell me we now live longer than ever. I don't buy it anymore, my eyes are open now and all i see is that all these vaccines, pills and surgeries are nothing but illusions. Smoke and mirrors to keep us believing we live longer. Yet we're not living longer, we're just working harder to keep up the same longevity we've had all along!

So what am I using now instead of commercial skin creams? Virgin Coconut Oil and Olive oil. Many Italian women in their 60's don't have wrinkles or greasy skin. When asked what their secret was, they've all said Olive oil. Your skin will love Olive oil. Spread it everywhere, rub it in, let it absorb naturally. Your heart will get essential Omega Fatty Acids, your skin will tighten and stay moist all day.

I also read that people in the Philippines have significantly lower blood cholesterol levels than us yet they cook everything in 100% saturated fat coconut oil! How can that be when we're told day after day, channel after channel, that saturated fat is linked to heart disease, stroke and high cholesterol? Somebody's not telling us the whole story here. Fortunately, I found the whole story for you. Read this report from Dr. Mary Enig Ph.D. But wait there's more...

Now that you know the truth about saturated fats, you can begin your love affair with them once more. But before you rush out and buy yourself coconut oil. You need to know that the coconut oil these reports are talking about isn't the cheap stuff you find in the Asian food isle of your grocery store. That stuff is full of chemicals, bleached, and completely devoid of nutrients.

You need to find yourself some virgin/extra virgin coconut oil (VCO or EVCO) at the health food store. Should be between $12-$20 for a decent sized container. It will look like white paste, that's ok. It melts very very quickly. Now use it like you would use butter. My favourite use for it is popcorn. I melt 2 tblsp of coconut oil in a large pot, pour in 2/3cup of organic popcorn seeds and voilà...perfect popcorn! You can also use it for baking instead of butter or shortening.

The lauric acid content in coconut oil is so strong it helps eliminate the risk of candida infections(yeast overgrowth) in your body. Because it's a medium chain fatty acid. The body doesn't need to bind to it to absorb it, it goes right through. So it's incredibly easy to digest, you won't need enzymes to assimilate it. It's perfect for children, the elderly, those who don't have gallbladders or anyone else with weak digestive systems. It has countless benefits, too many to mention here.

So go coco for coconut oil...i'm 30 with no crows feet, and skin like I had when I was 18. Incredible!

Polyethylene Glycol, Titanium Dioxide...What are you doing in my pills?

2007-11-05T10:30:00.000-05:00

I was looking at the "non-medicinal" ingredients on a box of a brand name allergy medication. I was shocked to see only one active ingredient and over 4 "fillers" many of which had scary names like like "polyethylene glycol" and "titanium dioxide". So I went and looked up other popular over-the-counter meds and that darn "polyethylene glycol" kept popping up everywhere. The worst part for me is, there was no mention of the amount of that stuff was in the pill!

I mean, you have a pill, let's say it's a 25mg dose allergy pill. Have you ever seen 25mgs? Look at the size of the pill. It must be at least 1g in weight. So what's the other 975mgs made of? Hmmmm? Ah yes, those non-medicinal ingredients, of course. So I might be getting more of those than of the actual ingredient that will releave my symptoms, i see. So what if it's my exposure to those "non-medicinal" ingredients causing my symptoms? Thought so, can't really help me there can ya? Don't really care either do ya?

It so happens that, one little google search on "titanium dioxide" gave me some eye opening results folks. Here's a few:

DuPont Titanium Dioxide and Mineral Sands
Manufacture titanium dioxide for the coatings, paper, plastics and specialties markets. Includes a product advisor, materials safety data sheets, ...titanium.dupont.com/ - 8k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Titanium Dioxide Classified as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans
Titanium dioxide has recently been classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as an IARC Group 2B carcinogen ''possibly carcinogen ...www.ccohs.ca/headlines/text186.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Titanium Dioxide Manufacturers Association (TDMA)
Titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) pigments are white inorganic pigments used primarily in the production of paints, printing inks, paper and plastic products.www.cefic.org/Templates/shwAssocDetails.asp?NID=5&HID=25&ID=173 - 106k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

What the heck is a highly toxic DuPont manufactured plastics pigment doing in our pills? Did you see that last description there? "Titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) pigments are white inorganic pigments used primarily in the production of paints". So what's it doing in over-the-counter meds? Is it a conspiracy with the pharmaceutical companies making these over-the-counter and prescription meds to slowly inject us with stuff that will make us break down so we have to turn to their pills to feel better eventually? You think I'm crazy for thinking this? But we've seen worse things being done.

Now for "polyethylene glycol" ...

Chronic Polyethylene Glycol Laxative Use in Chronic Constipation
The authors aimed to extend the safety data of polyethylene glycol used for chronic treatment of chronic constipation.www.medscape.com/viewarticle/552646 - Similar pages - Note this

MedlinePlus Drug Information: Polyethylene Glycol 3350
Polyethylene glycol 3350 is used to treat occasional constipation. Polyethylene glycol 3350 is in a class of medications called osmotic laxatives. ...www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a603032.html - 23k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Hmmm...laxative really? Interesting, considering it was in an allergy pill!!! Why put it there? What purpose does it serve?

This just proves my point even more. The more pills you take the worse you feel, yet you don't know why. Now we're starting to know why...

What colour lead are you wearing?

2007-11-05T09:34:00.000-05:00

First there's the China crap to worry about... now this?
It just amazes me how mindless people can be sometimes. No, seriously, don't get offended just listen for a minute. Makeup...

You just put it on your face and body, some of you every day others once in a while. Either way, how many times since you've started wearing makeup have you asked yourself what's that eye shadow made of? How does my skin cream get that golden glitter? What makes the red in my lipstick? What's inside my perfume, my body scrub, my exfoliating cream, my shave gel, my foundation, etc...

I was like that myself until I was made to see things from a different perspective.

Read this article from the Seattle Time about the FDA's discovery of lead in over 30 major lipstick brands.

The list of names shocked me, Burt's Bees??? WTF? They're supposed to be health and environment conscious. So what's lead doing in my Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer?

First we find out the active ingredient in deodorant is aluminum, then our cats and dogs are dying because the wheat gluten in their cat food is fermented using melamine (yes, the stuff your countertops are made of!), now lead is the main bulking agent in most red lipsticks! Geez people. Doesn't anybody give a s#@% anymore? How far will the motto "What they don't know won't hurt them" takes us? Obviously what we don't know IS HURTING US.

Look at how many kids have deadly food allergies now compared to when I was a kid (and that wasn't too long ago BTW :-)) Look at the mysterious increase in childhood fibromyalgia, MS, Lupus, and autism. Coincidence? Are you really sure about that?

Just think for a minute here, since the early 1900's we've invented new conveniences like plastic and rubber and began sanitizing the hell out of everything using powerful chemicals like chlorine and ammonia. Almost everything is petroleum based inclusing American's oldest most trusted moisturizer and the US Army's moisturizer of choice...Vaseline!

Didn't anybody care to ask if this would pose health risks decades later? What would happen to the human body if exposed to microscopic levels of toxins on a daily basis over 5 decades? I guess we're starting to find out now. Look at us, obese and can't lose it, lethargic, foggy headed, tired, guilt ridden, depressed drones with information overload...that's what we've become my friends.

Since you can't stop the world because you want to get off. You can at least educate yourself so you can start to exercise your "choose" muscle instead of continuing to use your "follow" muscle.

I'll Have Combo #2 With A Side Order Of TV Ads Please

2007-11-04T15:10:00.000-05:00

The other day I found a great alternative health website written by a doctor. I liked the way the information was presented. Using Videos!

This is for those of you who want to learn what you're doing to your body when you watch TV ...especially TV ads. Now you have a good reason for getting Tivo!

The Town Of Allopath

2007-11-04T15:04:00.000-05:00

The other day I was surfing around alternative health sites and came upon this really great flash animated cartoon.

Do yourselves a favour, take 10 mins out of your day and watch this flick. You'll realize just how little the medical and pharmaceutical industries care about you. They don't want you to be cured from your heartburn...hell now! That would mean the sales of Nexxium and Pariet would plummet. And your cholesterol problem? Do you really think they want it to vanish for good? Then you're naive my friend. There'd be no need for Lipitor! Don't relax and put yourself first, oh no, please, keep living that hectic life you beautiful Type A person. But, at the end of the day when it's 2am and you've been at your PC having meaningless interactions with total strangers for hours and feel like you're losing your mind. Just turn to our friends Prozac, Effexor, Paxil, and Zoloft. They always deliver when your friends won't.

Those of you who still don't "get it" the word "allopath" is the word used to describe the style of medicine practiced in the Western World of North America if you prefer. It's mainly focused on treating symptoms than the root causes of disease. Anyway, enough about that... Watch the vid

Enjoy!