About Me

After a going through a year of having a wide variety of “weird” unexplainable symptoms, I was having a hard time keeping track what happened, when it happened and what the doctors were saying. I needed a daily journal to document everything and use it as a reference. What started as a reference quickly became my research which then became my opinion.

Where I am now is a very different place from when I started. In the beginning, I believed that if you were sick, you went to a doctor to get better. I no longer have that belief. I don’t believe they understand the human body enough to solve the problem and bring people back to perfect health. They can suppress the symptoms with a drug but do so by completely ignoring the root cause of the problem.

When I lost faith in the conventional doctors and methods, I started looking for answers in alternative medicine and I found they weren’t much help either but I felt I was getting closer. Each doctor, specialist or health professional lead me to a different set of clues that I would piece together using Google on a daily basis to create this blog. Then I started to realize that the symptoms I’d learned to live with over the years, were directly related to the new issues I have today. Allergies I’ve had for the past twenty years was a symptom. The weird chest pain I had since high school was a symptom. Only now was I able to pull it all together.

If you end up reading my blog, I would appreciate you start from the very beginning. I think my opinions and direction can only be fully understood by reading everything I went through and how hard I worked for an answer to what seemed like a simple set of symptoms. I knew something was very wrong but all of the conventional tests were coming up normal.

Who was I to question to kind of tests that were being done? I was dealing with experts in health. I spent a lot of time reading books about health and nutrition, trying to understand the biochemistry, relationships, metabolism and biosynthesis of vitamins, minerals and amino acids. The more involved I got, the more interested I became. I don’t pretend to know more than anybody else but there are so many things that I have discovered and has worked for me. 

In the beginning, I made a lot of simple juvenile assumptions. I made mistakes that lead me in the wrong directions. Sometimes it would send me in a different direction and I would discover something else. It was trial and error. Mistakes are okay to make as long as we learn from them. And learn I did. The key to any investigation is to find the root cause and I didn’t get the impression anyone was looking for the root cause.

When I started, I knew nothing about the importance of nutrition, supplements or health. Through the blog I learned to be smarter about my approach to health. Pears made me feel better and bananas made me sick but I didn’t know why and nobody else knew why either. Nobody. My symptoms always seemed to be diet related but nobody could tell me why. I read about the different roles supplements play in health and I was astonished. Nobody was going to do this for me and I had to figure it out for myself.

The first picture was taken in 2003 and the second picture was taken in 2008. I was so bloated in the face and weighed over 200 pounds. Five years apart and the only thing I changed was my diet and I started taking vitamins. I went from a person who would eat ice cream for breakfast to someone who now eats apples, bananas and raisins for snacks instead of chocolate bars, donuts and candy. I tried to eat more healthy foods and added more veggies whenever I could and lost about 35 pounds! I did not do it through exercise or any kind of strict diet. I just started eating smarter.

I love looking at these photos because it shows that it can be done and if I can do it, anybody can.  These pictures are a constant reminder for me and I will never go back. I will never ever go back.

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