My Story

 

Throughout my life I have been faced with health challenges and a weak immune system. I wasn’t actually “sickly”, I actually had a pretty strong constitution when I was well, I just seemed to get sick a lot and much worse than other people. I luckily grew out of a lot of the common childhood illnesses, but as I became a young adult, other issues started to arise: debilitating lower back pain that would flare up whenever I was under stress, numbness and weakness that was later diagnosed as multiple sclerosis, colds

and flus that would hang on for weeks at a time and a frightening battle with cancer.

When I was in my mid-twenties I started having problems numbness through my abdomen and weakness in my left leg. I had an MRI and a few other tests, but at the time the doctors were unable to provide a diagnosis. The neurologist told me that they were looking for signs of MS, but the tests were inconclusive. Only when my symptoms got worse could they provide a diagnosis and plan for treatment. This was a moment of clarity for me. I could do nothing and wait to get really sick so that the medical system could treat me or I could do everything possible to take care of myself so that I would not need to be treated. This is when I decided to research everything I could find about MS and make some changes in my life to prevent disease. What I found was a blueprint for health…some common sense techniques that prevented a wide variety of diseases. What I know today, after much research and trial-and-error, is that the various common sense guidelines for healthy living are holistic methods for treating and maintaining the entire body, not just specific areas or symptoms.

For the past nearly twenty years, I’ve incrementally adjusted my lifestyle as I’ve evolved my own knowledge and techniques for health. Through all of my studies, I’ve learned to incorporate the techniques that work for my specific body and circumstances and that are consistent with my core beliefs. Some changes have been major and some have been minor. The key is to make changes that can be sustained and do not take away from other practices that keep me healthy.

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