Medicine alone won’t clean the trash.
I went on an anti-depressant. Right away, my brain felt frozen. Have you ever felt dental freeze in your mouth? If so, imagine that same dental freeze in your brain. After two days, I stopped taking the drug, but the brain freeze stayed. Over the next month, I could no longer run a comb through my hair; the medicine froze my hair into wire. Every morning, I’d pop upright, wide awake, almost precisely at 2:45 a.m. as I peered helplessly at the clock. Daily, I cried from the freeze—out of fears I had suffered irreversible brain damage. I told my doctor that a third day of the medicine would have killed me. She whispered, “I’m sorry.”
It’s been found that “a series of studies found that pharmaceutical drugs kill more people every year than are killed in traffic accidents” (Wilson, location 739 of 3248, 23%). Furthermore, “the Journal of the American Medical Association … reported that an estimated 106,000 people die each year from drugs which, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered” (Wilson, location 756 of 3248, 23%). Michael Wilson is an author who notes in his book, The Alzheimer’s Breakthrough: Prevent and Reverse Alzheimer’s: A Proven, All-Natural Program for Reversing Alzheimer’s and Creating Optimal Health, that the information in it “has been well documented and supported by many physicians, scientists, and health care professionals”, but also notes that the information in the book “may not be supported by conventional medicine or many physicians.” But I know what’s worked for me.
In another instance, I tried four different generic brands of a medicine, each at high dosages. In doing so, I isolated each brand’s side effects for me. One generic brand spiked anxiety. Another put me at risk of seizures. Another caused my eyes to stick and droop. And of course, none of them seemed to offer a cure.
Michael Wilson claims that “Conventional Medicine … utilizes poisonous substances (drugs) in non-lethal dosages in order to suppress symptoms. This approach neither addresses the cause of the disease condition, nor is it responsible for healing the patient. Rather, the use of drugs will temporarily mask the manifestation of the disease, while at the same time, drive the disease deeper in the body … only to reappear at a later date, as a more serious and chronic health threat” (Wilson, location 292 of 3248, 9%)
After all, pharmaceutical companies make billions off sustained sickness, not off cures. ”Drugs deal with the short-term effect, the surface cause of your discomfort, the symptom,” claims Wilson, “Make no mistake, the real source of the problem is the way you live your life” (Wilson, location 273 of 3248, 8%).
But drugs kill germs, don’t they? Not according to Michael Wilson. “Germs are not the cause of disease …. Germs consume dead matter …. It is only when the tissue becomes dead that they move in to do their job” (Wilson, location 955 of 3248, 29%). “The reality of it is, the only reason why those germs ever invade your body is because you created the trash necessary in your body first, to allow the germs to feed on and multiply” (Wilson, location 969 of 3248, 30%). It’s like the rat and trash analogy: “Trash piles up … the smell is disgusting, and what you’ll notice is that there are ugly giant rats, everywhere …. How smart would it be of you to come to the city and say ‘Wow! Look at all this trash these rats brought! Kill the rats to get rid of the trash” (Wilson, location 969 of 3248, 30%). Although pharmaceuticals have their place, we need to clean our bodily trash for the rats (the germs) to truly disappear.
Drugs address symptoms (the rats/germs); a healthy lifestyle tackles the trash: “One of the first things to do to get rid of any so-called disease is to get rid of all the acid retained by the body” (Dr. Robert O Young as cited in Wilson , location 2882, 88%). Disease-causing acid can be “properly eliminated through urination, perspiration, respiration, or defecation” (Dr. Robert O Young as cited in Wilson, location 2800 of 3248, 86%). In other words, to clear away the trash, we need meditation and exercise (respiration), exercise (perspiration), high fiber nutritious diets (defecation), and plain filtered water (urination).
As for perspiration and respiration, try exercising. If you have a condition that leaves you too sick to stand, ask your doctor about starting a bed yoga program. Once you find success with bed yoga, ask your doctor about a chair yoga program. Keep asking until you’re doing an athlete’s workout. Within a year and seven months, I went from barely walking a block to doing athletic workouts. Luckily, my doctor gave me the go-ahead day one.
As for defecation and urination, eat fiber, probiotics, and healthy fats (especially Omega 3s), and drink lots of water. Cut out all caffeinated and decaffeinated beverages. (I drink almost entirely plain water or water with sugar-free cinnamon.) Cut out all trans fats—and all added sugars (except 70% to 99% dark chocolate).
Here is a sample of my no fuss diet that I believe cured me of undiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome. It requires zero cooking, and it gives me perfect stools according to the Bristol Stool Scale:
7 a.m.:
- ½ cup yogurt
- ½ cup All Bran
- 1 teaspoon flaxseed (for Omega 3s)
- 1/3 cup (frozen) berries
- 1 banana
10 a.m.:
- 2 tablespoons almond butter (or substitute 2/3 an avocado)
- 1 banana
12 a.m.:
- 1/8 cup pumpkin seeds (or substitute 1/3 an avocado)
- 1 apple
- 1 tablespoon miso soup paste dissolved in warm water (for probiotics)
2 p.m.:
- ½ beet
- ½ carrot
- ½ cup spinach (or kale or beet greens)
- ½ celery stick
- ½ cup sour cabbage (for probiotics)
- ¼ cup yams
- 1 mini sweet red peppers
- 1 tablespoon almond butter (or substitute 1/3 an avocado)
- ½ cup broccoli
- ½ cup cauliflower
4 p.m.:
- ½ beet
- ½ carrot
- ½ cup spinach (or kale or beet greens)
- ½ celery stick
- ½ cup sour cabbage (for probiotics)
- ¼ cup yams
- 1 mini sweet red peppers
- 1 tablespoon almond butter (or substitute 1/3 an avocado)
- ½ cup broccoli
- ½ cup cauliflower
6 p.m.:
- 1 can salmon (for Omega 3s)
- 1 Vitamin D pill
(If my diet doesn’t suit your taste buds, tweak your own. Use a nutrition app like the Cronometer until you get optimal RDA for each vitamin. Cronometer is available online at cronometer.com or as a phone app.)
As for respiration, ask your doctor about trying a meditation called the Wim Hof Method. Follow the Wim Hof Method with an ice-cold shower. When I had undiagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome, cold showers healed; hot showers harmed.
On a final note, if you take medication, don’t discontinue it without doctor’s permission. After all, some medications you can’t live without. But, medicated or not, tackle the trash with proper perspiration, respiration, urination, and defecation.
