Around 2010, I began to experience very strange and worrisome symptoms too numerous to list here. As they worsened, I ran around to a dozen doctors, while only growing more sick and more frustrated. My primary doctor eventually suggesting that my issues may  be in my head after many tests and not being able to  pinpointed any real cause.  He actually said the list of symptoms I shared with him ‘sounds like someone who is dying’.  I think he would agree that I looked awfully sick even if his tests could not tell why.  Because I looked so alarmingly frail and unwell, my family approached me one day, suggesting that I was driving myself to frightening ill health because of my vegetarian diet. 

 

Around the middle of 2011 when I could no longer work, I finally located an integrationist doctor, who typically uses natural remedies but integrates conventional ones when necessary.  She performed additional testing on me which detected nutritional and hormonal imbalances as well as environmental toxins, including heavy metals such as lead and mercury.  Her treatment recommendations, along with prayer and systematically following steps learned through personal research, lead to significant enough recovery that I could seek work again after a year and a half of unemployment.  

As the research indicated, the highly nutritional dense & detoxifying ‘superfoods’, supplements, herbs, along with things such as regular saunas, slowly but surely lead to substantial improvements in my health. 

• My memory and energy improved

• I could stand without feeling like I was going to fall over

• The pains in my muscles, bones, organs and joints began to lessen

• My hair stopped feeling like straw and falling out

• My eye sight improved

• My gums stop shrinking/bleeding excessively and my teeth did not look as brown

• The metallic taste in my mouth went away

• The awful black bumps stopped coming through my skin

• The heart palpitations and nausea stopped

• My hyper-reaction to smelling negligible amounts of household chemicals decreased

• My excessive sweating greatly decreased 

• The tingling in my hands and feet went away

 

This natural process detoxed my body of extremely stubborn and dangerous toxins. My body was built back up so that it began to slowly heal.  My experience clearly demonstrated how the body can expel deadly toxins and regain a healthy tone. Through this life-threatening experience, I gained firsthand proof of the research’s declaration that, even devastating health conditions can improve if certain life-giving substances and practices are used.  As someone who has worked to uplift my community through voluntary work for more than 20 years, I am committed to helping others in various ways, including with my knowledge of health maintenance and recovery.