Other Options to Antibiotics -- LONG

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I believe it is time to share another option for recovery from serious health issues. That option is with neutraceuticals and nutrition. It includes removing offending foods & chemicals. Using foods in the most natural unrefined state and as much organic as possible. Using diets that remove offending components. This option is what was used to bring our daughter from her bedridden state as a 16 yr old in 1993 with a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, to one of recovery -- graduation from high school, graduation from college, accepting a Fulbright Program to teach English in high school in Austia fro 2 years. Now works full time in the midwest. To be fair, she still struggles with some immune weakness issues. This is probably because she has become lax in following dietary rules. For example: she is gluten intolerant but breaks over. But she is an adult and on her own. Still what was used in the 1990s for her recovery and then applied to her younger sister who recovered from Autism and then to my own recovery (in 2000) from symptoms that resembled MS or ALS but given the label of Fibromyalgia by a physician who not know what what else to call it at the point when I had begun to recover myself by using the Neutrceuticals I had learned about from 1993 up to 2000. NOTE: I did not have access to the Internet or discussion lists January 2000. Information was given to me by various individuals who were concerned about our family's issues and offered info which I then studied out, prayed about, tried and used what worked.

The very first neutraceutical was Pycnogenol from a company named Kaire. If you are interested google Maritime Pine Bark extract or Pycnogenol. There are a whole host of reasons whyit has been a good product for us to continue using. We obtain it from a SuVida, though I believe that Kaire has the very highest quality.

The next product that our older daughter began using was Spirulina from a company called Light Force. This is a blue-green algae which is a whole food. Ask yourself how many whole food can you list? I will give you a clue: human milk is one of them. Whole foods are ones that would sustain life if that was the only thing you had to survive. With Spirulina you would also need water. Human milk provides everything an infant needs to survive and thrive. The company Light Force eventually was acquired by the company RBC Life Sciences. Spirulina was what our oldest daughter used to provide her with sustained energy so she could make it through a full day at high school. Before she stated it, she could not stay at longer than the first two class periods. So, it greatly changed her life. She graduated on time. She seemed to be improving, and on her way to recovery. But about 5 weeks after graduation, she went downhill, lost muscle tone and could only stand up longer than a few minutes without sitting down. She had trouble falling and staying asleep (which she had before) and difficulty thinking.

With the above describled situation with our daughter, I call Light Force and asked to speak with the man they had assigned me as my distributor. He was a hemophlic who had acquired AIDs from a tainted blood supply at age 19. In 1994 he had been living with AIDs for 12 or 13 years. For all of you who are old enought to remember, in the 1994, most indivuals with AIDS did not live any where close to that long. But his family had found various products including a high quality Aloe Vera produced at Carrington Labs in Texas as well as the products that Light Force sold. This man became my teacher over the phone for the next 2 months before another infection overtook his body and he died at the age of 32. His name is Rob Powrie. Do a google and you will find his name in a list of those who are remembered in am AIDs memorial.

Our family is indebted to Rob for instructing me to give a product from Light Force called Immune Pack to our daughter. I asked him how much? His answer was that it was an amount far more than anyone in the Light Force company would have suggested. But he had been working with a young mother of 3 school age children who was bedridden. She had the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia (who knows what it really was!!) She drove them to school and went home to rest in bed until it was time to pick them up. It was found that she needed to consume 15 caplets each day (She divided that into three times a day to consume 15.) And she been able to finally improve. She also used some other products including the Spirulina and a product called Crystal Energy drops mixed with pure water.

Well, I must admit placing the order for that much product was a huge leap of faith! It cost a lot of money! And I did it without asking my husband. I knew he would not agree to it because he was not happy with the amount it cost to buy the Spirulina and the Pycnogenol. He believed that there had to be a drug our doctor could prescribe that would "get at" or "cure" the problem. Well, we has already gone that route for about 2 years and our daughter was only growing worse! At time, she looked like she was at death's door. And for me it was most taxing since we have a total of 6 children, the youngest (then 5 yr old) having a high functioning form of Autism.

Well, the Immune Pack arrived and immediately it was started. Rob Powrie told me that she must start slowly since it would detox her. So, she was to take only 1 the first day, 2 the next and work up to 4 the next if she was able to tolerate that much. She was able to quickly move up to 15 a day by about the 4th day. (I believe that was possible because she was using the Pycnogenol which also detoxs the cells in the body.). By the 5th day at level 15 caplets a day, it was clear she was on the road to recovery. Rob had told me to keep her at that level for about a week and then try to come down to 12 caplets a day. We tried that but found that symptoms returned. She was at level 15 for about a month -- if I remember correctly. Then we tried again and she was able to come down to 12. She stayed at that level for at least another month, maybe more. Then went down to 9 a day. It was a full year before she could be at taking 6 caplets a day and not regress. By the time, she graduated from college she was using 4 a day, increasing to more when she felt an illness or symptoms return.

Immune Pack is no longer offered by RBC Life Sciences. They now have the next generation and probably a better product than what we began using in 1994. One might not need to take 15 a day as we did at that time. This is the link to it. I believe it is something that would be well work using inplace of antibiotics.

Immune 360 - RBC Life Sciences

Suppliment Facts about Immune 350 from RBC. ( list of ingredients)

One of the unique ingredients is phycotene. Here is info about it: Harvard Study: Research Results With Spirulina Extracts, Phycotene and Cancer

As some of you may know for posting I have made on the Lyme-Autism discussion list, we also have been using Transfer Factor from 4Life Research. This is what we began using in 2000 when for a period of time the Immune Pack formula that our youngest was using was discontinued (It was in a capsule. Which I opened and could mix with apple sauce since she could not swallow pills. The caplet form our older daughter used continued to be sold but our youngest could not use it. She because quite sick and about that time I learned about 4Life TF and it proved to be effect.)

Antibiotic usage is not an option for most of our family members to use. (My husband is the exception.) We tried that route and there are negatives.

One more thing to share and that is we know about exposure to toxic mold environments. In late 2001 we moved our of our house for 6 months and our entire house was remediated. All of the windows were defective, moisture leaked inside the walls and for 5 years the mold grew. All of our family had various health issues develop. I have done extensive study on mold & mycotoxins because of our experience. Mycotoxins are the big problem. Once we understood what mold looks like in a house, we realized the previous house we live in for 10 years also had toxic mold growing on basement walls where our oldest children had their bedrooms. Where the older daughter described at the beginning of this long post lived all of those 10 years!!!

Now one more thing, for those who do not know why I would even be interested in a discussion list that is for those who have contracted Lyme. Here is the reason: I was raised on a dairy farm where in about 1959 or 1960, our dairy herd was nearly wiped out by the disease Leptospirosis. I became very ill about this same time. I was told it was the flu. But I have to wonder if I contracted this. At the time, I was so sick that I was not coherant, high fever with chills. The worse experience and nothing like flus I has in years after that time. We drank the milk from our cattle and touched the ponds water where they drank. (We caught fish from the pond.) Since all of our 6 children and myself have various autoimmune issues and some of these symptoms fit right into the realm of Borrelia Multiple Infections, I feel that I fit in with this group.

It is good to be able to share. I know that there are other options for healing than those that are commonly spoken about. And I believe that the route we have gone could be one that would be benefit others.

Jan