Fri 13 Apr 2007
For those of you who might be interested… Here’s the nutshell report on what I found out from my lab reports and my follow-up conversation with my naturopath:
- I’m not absorbing protein or calcium
- My liver is sluggish at detoxifying my body
- I don’t have any food allergies save an intolerance to sesame
- My blood sugar is just fine - no concerns or signs of pre-diabetes
- I have low stomach acid
- My white blood count is elevated
- I have a bacterial and parasitic infections
- I have hypothyroidism
- I have dysbiosis (meaning the bad bacteria have taken over in my GI sytem)
First stage treatment:
- Thyroid prescription (levoxyl)
- Begin to address the fact that I’m not absorbing nutrients. To do:
- take 1 tsp of apple cider vineager (1x/day)
- drink lemon water (3x/day)
- take Betaine HCL / Pepsin with each meal (adding pills until I hit the point of heartburn and then backing down just a bit… this will let me know when I have enough stomach acidity to aid with proper digestion)
- Drinking Living Fuel protein smoothie 2x/day (easier form of protein to digest)
- Begin a regimen for kicking out the bad and nasty bacteria:
- take lots (and lots!) of probiotics
- take anti-microbial herbs (ParaBiotic Plus)
- take herbal immune system booster (EHB)
- Drinking Living Fuel Berry or Greens shake 2x/day (these shakes contain high levels of nutrients and probiotics)
I think I got everything. There is a fair amount of seriousness in treating this. As it was explained to me, when your body is unable to absorb protein and nutrients… you overall health begins to decline with some serious consequences over time. My doctor is looking at my doing a liver detox program in a month or so. She said trying to do that plus the regimen I’m starting now would be too overwhelming for my body. She said I would feel miserable and it would be too taxing on my body to do it all at once. Everything one step at a time.
My breakfast shake this morning was:
- Living Fuel Super Berry
- Living Fuel Living Protein
- 1/2 cup frozen black cherries
- 2 tbsp xylitol
- 1 oz Country Life Liquid Calcium-Magnesium
I’m going to be pretty familiar with this shake and variations of it (mostly different fruits and swapping out the Super Berry with the Super Greens). I need to have that shake at least 2x a day.
My ND indicated that I should start seeing and feeling changes within a week or two. I have a follow-up appointment to see where things are in early May. I’ll keep you posted.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
At first glance this seems overwhelming, but I hope your not taking it that way. Many of these items seem to be lumped together in their treatment.
I am excited to see the reccomendation of apple cider vinegar and lemon water. When raw drinking apple cider vinegar or lemon water first thing on an empty stomache each morning is reccomended to help alkalize your body. There are 2 great books written about the benefits of apple cider vinegar:
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Cider-Vinegar-54th-Lifestyle/dp/0877900450/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5761735-3823220?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176498177&sr=1-1
and
http://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Fasting-Throughout-Spiritual-Rejuvenation/dp/0877900396/ref=pd_sim_b_2/002-5761735-3823220?ie=UTF8&qid=1176498177&sr=1-1
The second book is great because it goes into the subject of fasting and different types of fasts, what you drink and what they do for you.
I have personally preferred drinking lemon water, to vinegar. I have also done 2 lemon water fasts in the past year. It is reccomended to do it for at least 10 days, but around 4 days I really miss chewing food so I usually make it 5 days. I’ve met people who have done it for a month!
The second thing that excites me is the super greens supplement. Again, in the raw community blue green algae, and wheat grass are a must. We go through E3live.com to get our blue green, they also have soaps, moisturizers and chocolate with the afa in it. This has made such an improvement in my family. Sean and I first started taking it and noticed our skin was so much softer and I noticed less headaches. After a year my mom jumped on board and now her skin is softer, smoother and she just feels more “clear headed”. We use the soaps and moisturizers on our girls because they both have severely dry skin that no other products would help with. Within a week of the soap and moisturizers their skin looked like new.
Anyway, loooong story short, I see a lot of improvement in your health coming your way and it makes me happy. Also the xylitol Im assuming is mixed in as a sweetner, is that what was reccomended? Because I personally prefer stevia to xylitol, it’s sweeter so you use less. Just a thought.
Thanks for posting all the information. I’m very excited to see the benefits in the upcoming months.
April 13th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Hi Elizebeth. Thanks for your comment! No, I’m not overwhelmed. I’m actually excited to have a plan of attack to begin addressing the multitude of little and big things that have been bothering me and my health for a while now.
Thanks for the book recommendations!
Taking Living Fuel (Berry & Super Greens) is easy for me because I’ve already been using it once a day (for breakfast). Now, I will just be upping how many times a day I use it.
I’ve tried stevia and for whatever reason don’t like the taste. The only thing that I’ve found that I don’t mind stevia in is some green tea extracts that I drink made by Pure Inventions. Otherwise, as a sweetener additive, I don’t care for it. I also like the additional benefits that xylitol has, one of which is perfect for my situation - it’s anti-bacterial.
You can see more benefits listed here.
And last, thanks for your input and interest. I realize this topic could be “put-me-out-of-my-misery” boring for some people.
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