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28 november Update: Using Natural anti-inflammatories for MSAs I sit here before my computer, I am rubbing my hands and trying to evaluate the degree of numbness/stiffness left in my hands.
I started the natural anti-inflammatories again 3 weeks ago. I am taking the freeze dried Noni Plus capsules, the Ziwi (a supernutritious drink with anti-inflammatory effects), and Pure Relief (a natural cox 2 inhibitor).
Last week was kind of hectic, and I did forget to take some of the supplements a few times, but by the weekend, I was pretty much back on track.
The numbness in my hands is still there. It is not gone, but it is noticably less than it has been. This numbness, this altered sensation, in my hands is kind of like wearing gloves. The thicker the "gloves", the more numbness and stiffness I feel in my hands. Well, it feels as if the gloves are getting thinner and thinner, as the numbness decreases in intensity.
The progression has been a bit slow, it has taken 3 weeks to get this far, but I just hope the numbness continues to progressively get less and less until it is gone. Then lets just hope that the oral chelation: ie. getting all the mercury out of my brain, keeps any more MS lesions from forming in my brain or spinal cord. I have an appointment with my neuro next month. I am hoping he will order an MRI to see if there have been any changes in my MS lesions since my last MRI. I am sure he will be curious, since I have not been taking an MS TX drugs. He might agree to it, just hoping that he can use the results (if show larger lesions) to convince me to start Rebif (his MS TX drug of choice). I am curious to see if the natural remedies that I have been doing have had any effect on the MS lesions. I know it might be too soon to tell, but it certainly won't hurt. I want to get it done before the end of the year so it will be covered by my insurance before I have to pay another annual deductible. (LOVE my insurance company, Select Health with Intermountain Healthcare.)
I will write another update in a week or 2. 13 november Update: anti-inflammatories for MSIt has been a week since I have started taking the anti-inflammatory supplements again: the VivaTRU Pure Relief, and the VivaTRU Noni Plus (freeze dried Noni in capsules). In addition to the VivaTRU Ziwi, and the Extreme Health Oral Chelation formula, which I have continued to take.
So far the numbness in my hands continues. It seems like it might have decreased a tiny bit, but this might be wishful thinking. I think it will take a bit more time, after all, it took about a month for the numbness on the bottoms of my feet to dissapear after I started taking these supplements in June.
I am going to double the Pure Relief, and take 2 with breakfast, and 2 with dinner to maybe get faster results. I will write another update next week. 06 november Did my VivaTouch assessmentI did my VivaTouch nutritional assessment today. WOW, I was amazed at the results. In the part where it assess my body to determine which nutritional supplements my body is needing right now, the results indicated that:
#1 is Ziwi, which will bring my body 44% closer to optimal nutritional balance.
#2 was Pure Relief, which, when added to the Ziwi will bring me another 22% closer to optimal nutritional balance.
#3 was Noni Plus, which, when added to the Ziwi, and Pure Relief, will bring me an additional 33% closer to optimal nutritional balance for a total of 100% total nutritional balance (I rounded up).
WOW, this is exactly what I was thinking that I was needing. So now I know for sure that my body is needing the Ziwi, the Pure relief and the Noni plus, just as I wrote in my blog yesterday.
I have been trying to eat a healthy nutrition packed diet, so I only need a few supplements to reach 100% optimal nutritional balance.
I have had a few clients who eat such a nutrient packed diet, the their VivaTouch results indicated that they only needed 2 supplements to reach 100% optimal nutritional balance. I have had other clients whose results gave them the top 4 supplements that they were needing, and they still wouldn't reach higher than 80% with those 4 supplements added to their daily nutrient intake. When results indicate that 4 supplements are needed, and will only help them reach 90% or less optimal nutritional balance, I like to discuss simple diet changes to help them start on a path toward eating more nutritious foods.
We really should be getting most of our vital essential nutrients from the foods that we eat and should only need to take a few nutritional supplements to make up for what our diet is lacking. I am so glad that I can get regular VivaTouch assessments to assess the changing nutritional needs of my body as my body, and situation changes, and as I change my eating habits. 05 november Inflammation in MSWe recently returned from our second trip to Mexico. I had to see the dentist again to get the permenant crowns put in. Everything went well at the dentist's office. Then we had a week to vacation in Mexico.
Vacationing in that area of Mexico is a lot like vacationing in the USA. The prices of hotels and restaurants is almost the same. We did find that if you pay with dollars, the restaurant doesn't give you as good of an exchange rate as the money changers, so it is best to change your dollars for pesos before you pay for your hotel, or go to a restaurant.
We spent most of our time in Ensenada. We spent a few days on the beach. It was GREAT. In Mexico, they think it is too cold this time of year to swim on the beach, so there wasn't hardly any other people there. I am a hardy mountain girl, and have been swimming in lakes and rivers just downstream of the snowpack runoffs since I was a child. The water in Mexico was GREAT!!! We also had a great time combing the beach for shells. I was just delighted to find a few scallop shells that were only 1 cm across, and a couple of sand dollars that were 3-4 mm in diameter.
Mexico had warmer temperatures than Utah, and I noticed that the numbness/stiffness in my hands increased a little while I was down there. People with MS are very heat sensitive, and their symptoms become more intense when temps go up. Some people have their theories about why. This is a possible theory: I have been thinking that it might be due increased inflammation with temperature changes. Inflammation is caused by extra fluid that has been allowed to leak into the affected tissues, and cells. That is why you apply ice pack to an injured area that has become swollen; the blood vessels contract when the ice is applied, restricting the amount of fluid is allowed to escape into the affected tissue, and the inflammation is stopped, and can even reverse. Well if you were to put a warm pack onto that area, the inflammation would not stop, and would even increase. So just like a warm pack, increased temperatures can lead to increased MS inflammation, and increased intensity of symptoms.
I have not been taking the natural anti-inflammatory supplements lately. MS is a disease of inflammation. It is the inflammation that does the physical damage to the myelin sheath cells in the brain, which in turn alters the nerve impulses of the effected nerve, resulting in the symptoms of MS. It is so important to stop the inflammation, in order to prevent further damage to those cells, and hopefully they can be fully repaired, and the symptoms can be reversed. Most doctors use steroids to control the inflammation, especially when loss of vision has occurred, and the person is at risk of permenant damage to the nerves of the eyes which would result in permenant vision loss. If my vision was ever at risk, I would get the steriods. But steroids have such aweful side effects. They mess up the metabolism, cause weight gain, suppress the immune system, and cause calcium loss from the bones. So when my MS symptoms started with only numbness, and my vision was not affected, I opted for the natural anti-inflammatories.
The natural anti-inflammatories I took were Pure Relief, which has fucoidan, Noni Plus freeze dried capsules, and Ziwi, the super food drink that has fucoidan, acai berries, and goji berries. The Ziwi has also been shown to help the body cleanse of heavy metals, so I am not sure if it was the anti-imflammatory effects, or the cleansing of the heavy metals that helped me the most. My symptoms stopped progressing, and started reversing after I started taking these three things. The numbness on the bottoms of my feet was gone even before I got all the Mercury fillings out.
As I have been doing more research, and studying about MS, I think that it was the anti-inflammatories that helped the most to stop the progression of my MS syptoms. But anti-inflammatories are not the cure for MS. Inflammation is not the root cause of MS. It is only a symptom that causes other symptoms. So anti-inflammatories are ONLY for symptom management. To cure MS, we need to find out what causes the inflammation to occur in the first place. If we are only taking things that treat the inflammation, or prevent the inflammation, we will be dependant on those things for the rest of our lives. The anti-inflammatories vital for initial treament of MS, because it is so important to stop the inflammation to prevent further damage and to hopefully reverse the damage that has already been done. But something else must be done in order to stop the cause of the inflammation, the root cause of MS.
So that is why I have stopped taking the anti-inflammtories for a while, to see how I do without them. I might want to start again so I can see if there is any difference between not taking them, and taking them. So far, the numbness in my hands is still there. It seemed to increase a bit when I had run out of the oral chelation formula, but I had also decreased the amount of anti-inflammatories I was taking about that same time. I have started takine the oral chelation again, and the numbness decreased again, almost back to the level it was before I ran out, except while were in Mexico, when it increased a bit. Now it seems to be back down again, holding steady, but not resolving completely. I just might need to hit the anti-inflammatories heavy until the symptoms/inflammation are COMPLETELY gone, and then stop, and see if they ever come back again after I finish the oral chelation.
I still think it is the effects of the Mercury that is the root cause of MS.
OK, as I have been writing and proof reading what I have written it occured to me tha I should start the anti-inflammatories again. I think I will hit them good until the last bit of inflammation in the currently active lesions is gone, and the numbness in my hands has completely resolved. If I don't get rid of the inflammation right away, permenant damage might result, and then the numbness in my hands would never go away. I could live with that if I had to, but it would be so much better to have a complete recovery from this disease if that is possible.
OK, I will continue to take 3 caps of the Oral chelation PM formula before bed.
I will take 2 Noni Plus capsules, first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach.
I will drink 1 ounce of Ziwi about 15 minutes after that
An hour later, I will take 3 tabs of the oral chelation AM formula.
During breakfast, I will take 1 Pure Relief, and during dinner I will take 1 Pure Relief.
I will report back next week about any changes (or not) that I experience. |
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