Quote from Joe2 on September 26, 2024, 9:44 pm

 

Another story from xxxxx blog reposted here with permission from K

My Vit.A testimonial

I should start by saying I am 57yrs old, 5’8” and no more that 160lbs. I have been married 33yrs have had 4 children(w/numerous early miscarriages) ;ages of kids now; 22, 24, 27& 28. I also have 2 grandchildren (the 3ed due in Nov.). I am in very good physical shape, muscular, an over type, not over weight. Since I was 31, I have eaten the best I could, take all the vitamins and herbs and ate the rainbow as much as possible, as we were taught & I have not had any alcohol for over 30yrs. l also walk/hike a min. of 3-6miles most every day since my mid 30’s. And one big regret I have was (against my better judgement) was getting a hep A vaccine before a trip to the Dominican Republic 15 yrs ago. Within 30 mins of that shot, I had horrid diarrhea and that would come and go for around 6 mnths. I would say the beginning of my liver issues.

A little background of my family, In 1996, my mother was diagnosed with colon cancer, we were told it was terminal and spoiler alert, it was. I grew up with my mom having all sorts of intestinal issues, extreme food allergies and environmental allergies. They were so severe she would have a horrible reaction to bananas, strawberries, sprays, perfumes and the list goes on. She was on an inhaler for her asthma, pill after pill for allergies, taking shots, lots of cortisone, & meds for reflux. She had a hiatal hernia, had gallbladder removal surgery and more. We all wondered way back then if she was also a celiac, which I am most certain she was based on everything we know know. When she finally passed which was extremely fast thanks to the chemo eating her organs away, we counted around 40 different medications she had been given over a two year period. Since the root cause (toxic bile, sick liver) was never diagnosed, they treated only the symptoms and gave her chemo. She was a middle school math & science teacher and would teach Mon-Fri, then on Fri. evening get chemo and be violently ill all weekend, then go back to teach on Mon again. After 6 mnths of this she was given a clean bill of health in Feb 1996 but over the next 3 months, the bile from her damaged liver w/the chemo kept eating away at every organ in her body. When we saw a ct scan in Aug of that year every organ looked like swiss cheese(not an exaggeration), it was devastating and obviously this was the end

So now on to me…I grew up an average chubby kid until I was in 7th grade when I slimmed down and got into every girl sport I could. I was very athletic. However, up to that point, I remember in 6th grade my mom putting me on weight watchers and sometimes appetite suppressants supported by weight watchers. I Hated everything about all of that & mom never forced me to adhere to everything she just wanted me to have all of the resources to learn how to “eat”. Oh and we also did Richard Simmons(ha) deal a meal thing, that is what actually got me to learn about basic nutrition. I never felt well through a lot of Highschool. Very tired, had extreme nausea after eating anything, horrible cramping from my cycle and just plain tired. I got mono & strep throat!! That knocked me out for two solid weeks of school & a year after to fully recover. Now I realize how bad my liver was. Forward to college, wish I could re do those days with low vit. A diet & no alcohol binging. I was in the worst health of my life then. I look back at some of those pictures and I am so swollen & gained 30lbs, its so evident of my liver backing up and not working properly.

Over the years, after I had all of my kids, my body started breaking down. I had a prolapsed uterus, and had a partial hysterectomy when I was 39 & by 43 I started the crazy road of bioidentical hormones! I was on the cutting edge of when they started to use them. Since I still had my ovaries I didn’t need estrogen at that time, my suffering was eased by just taking testosterone which my body barely made, to bring me back to the living. It helped with hot flashes, libido& energy. However, I grew tired of the hormones only working temporarily or works great at first then dies down.
I always was researching and researching cutting edge new natural and medical ways of treating hormone issues or any health issue that came my way.
In the LYL program, I have read and read the info, listened to countless hours& hours of your pod casts and LYL information attempting to retain the info. I have been experimenting with the minerals and low vit.A diet since March 2024 and here is why…
Over the years, with everything said above, I have had my issues and sought the help of a primary physician and also at the same time a naturopath MD. I have done countless iv’s of hydrogen peroxide, ozone and high dose vit C and others to help heal my off and on episodes of Epstein Barr and lymes issues & high liver enzymes. While it definitely made me feel better with those issues, at the same time I developed a sore throat that caused me to lost my voice for many months. I was devastated because I am a singer and now could barely talk. Now I was told I had silent reflux with little coughing & had no idea this was such a huge deal.

Fast forward to 2019, 2022, I had had 2 rotator cuff surgeries (it totally re-tore so I had the 2nd one), 2 back surgeries (L4 L5 fusion) then I reacted to the sutures from that surgery and one side fusion didn’t take so I had to have a replacement of one side fusion and hardware) To this day, I feel fantastic and like I never had those surgeries and can walk/hike great again now. BUT…all of the meds for surgery were slowly killing my liver. I barely ever take any meds or hydrocodone meds after surgery. I usually recover fast and with little pain. However, my liver and bile were still trying to signal to me. I then in March 2023 was told I had developed a large benign ovarian cyst that was growing and needed to be removed, so that was done. After all of that I was still in search of how to lower my bad liver enzymes and cholesterol

So in March 2024 I went down hard with a gallbladder attack and I was filled with stones. I ended up in the ER on a Tuesday and suffered until they removed it 3 days later. I left the hospital on Friday actually feeling fine, no meds needed and thought that was that until…
pancreatitis hit me on the following Monday. I thought I could die from the pain. The docs did every test on me and my liver. It was terrifying because I was told ALL of the following after numerous mri’s, ct scans, liver tests, endoscopy biopsy and more while I was there….I was told I had; a damaged liver, inter-hepatic cholestasis, slow intestines, enlarged bile ducts, inflamed bile ducts, basically EVERYTHING almost word for word you talked about in your celiac podcast!! And I mean EVERYTHING. They were so worried about my liver, they even tested me for liver cancer. I “look” like someone who is super healthy! But I was NOT healthy. Thankfully, 4days later, the pain subsided I was released from the hospital and referred to a gastroenterologist for a possible liver biopsy. That appt was scheduled for May, 2moths later.

After that hospital stay 2 weeks later, my husband and I had a trip to Fla. I told my husband,I am going to find some way to heal my liver. This was a GOD MOMENT! While on the plane trying to do some research on my phone, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX pod cast popped up on youtube. I have NEVER seen or heard of xxxxxxxx or xxx, I immediately started listening and it was like a lightbulb came on and I joined the xxx program then and there on the plane.

I started a low vit A diet that day. I learn something new each pod cast. I am always refining my food and supplements daily based on how I feel, bile dump and sleep. The info you give on your pod cast is worth every penny! I cannot thank you enough for all your share with us. This is now my way of living & eating from now on. The BEST news is, as of June 2024, I I had a fiber scan(in place of a biopsy) of my liver. This was 3months after I was told I had a damaged liver. My scan showed I now had NO liver damage… ZERO! I was so shocked & so was my doc. I am so proud of myself and the work I am putting in to heal my liver. I still have non-alcoholic fatty liver(my # was a 2) I was then told to loose body fat to lower it & that was the only option given to me. I told all my drs, I am now doing a low Vit A & now mostly gf diet for a year to lower this. My liver doc scheduled another fiber scan in one year (next June 2025) to see if my fatty liver decreases. For now, the liver doc has released me from his care because my liver itself no longer showed damage. I wouldn’t have believed the results if I hadn’t seen them.

Low vitamin A healed my liver and I probed my doc about this and my healing but the doc wouldn’t comment at all. I know the truth of how this came to be! Thank you xxxxxxxx & the xxx program, it has revolutionized my health & my way of thinking about health and the origin of disease.