Hippocrates Said, Let Food Be Thy Medicine

*DISCLAIMER:  I am not, nor have I ever been a medical doctor (I don't even play one on TV).  The information I will be posting here is simply my own observation, and what has and has not worked for me.  Trust your own instincts and always, ALWAYS do your own research.  My aim is simply to point you in what I hope is the right direction, or at the very least, give you something to think about, and hopefully it will help you like it has helped me.

A Little About Me
It's time we took back our health.  Don't you think so?  Eight years ago I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.  My doctors gave me additional diagnoses that I like to call the "usual suspects".  High blood pressure, depression, fibromyalgia, possible onset of heart disease...and so on.  Sound familiar?  So I stupidly took the extensive medications that they prescribed me and settled down to a pseudo life.  I watched the world go by from my armchair.  Watched my son become a young man.  Watched my friends post pictures of themselves on Facebook enjoying life outside of the home.  I gave up driving because my anxiety was through the roof.  The longer I sat there the sicker I got.  And certainly the meds didn't help!

One day I was praying to God to help my son get through whatever it was that I could see was eating away at his very soul.  That same night I found a video that talked about diet and nutrition and how these diagnoses we are given are not diseases but SYMPTOMS.  They are symptoms that our bodies give us as they try desperately to heal and fight off whatever is attacking them.  One of the reasons blood pressure goes up is due to clogged arteries and sludgy blood (to put it in simple terms).  So we are given a pill to bring our blood pressure back down, but we aren't told WHY our arteries are clogged or our blood is sludgy.  Sure, at one time doctors used to harp on about "diet and exercise", and obviously we NEEDED this information, but no one ever seemed to know EXACTLY what that information was, other than we needed to "cut calories and exercise three times a week."

Sadly, doctors quit telling us to diet, though so many of the diets that were out there were ineffective, and still are.  Now they just throw a pill at the problem.  I was taking a pill for depression, a pill for high blood pressure, one for high cholesterol, one for pain, and so on.  Doctors don't really get paid unless they see you and prescribe you something.  If you ask me, that is incentive for them to keep you sick!  Well, maybe not INTENTIONALLY, but you get the idea.  There is no money in telling you to eat right and take care of yourself, because then you wouldn't need them...

Now please don't get me wrong, I am extremely pleased with my doctors.  They do the very best they can, but they are taught in medical school to treat symptoms and diseases, not how to eat properly, and what type of foods can heal the gut, the brain, the heart, etc.  Also, there are so many conditions out there that warrant constant or at least consistent medical attention, but there are so very many more that can be treated and even reversed by simply eating properly, drinking healthy water, taking supplements where needed, keeping stress out of your life as best you can, and getting proper rest.  Your body is designed to heal itself.  Fevers bring white blood cells in to fight infection just like it's supposed to, and we are told to "reduce a fever".  The body knows what to do, and we seem to second guess it.  Obviously very high fevers need to be treated, but mild fevers are actually GOOD.  If you feel the onset of a cold coming on, soaking in a hot tub of water will help fight it off.  We need to learn to treat the CAUSE, not the symptom.  I want to teach people how to strengthen their immune systems, detoxify their livers, heal their leaky guts, and a myriad of other conditions through food, supplements, and rest.

I do hope you will stick with me as I learn how to properly blog and get this wealth of information that I have learned over the past several months out to you, my friends.  I literally went from using a walker or a cane everywhere I went to finally driving again and was even able to go to Hawaii with my family for a week.  That is something I never ever thought I would do again!   -J