Thursday, September 16, 2010

My Visit to the Naturopath

I went to a clinic in West Bend.  The name of the facility is Inochi.  That means life in Japanese.  The goal at Inochi is to restore life within the body thereby improving the quality of one's life. 

The doctor, named Donna, sat with me for three hours.  Donna lost 15 years of her life to being mostly bedridden with an illness that could not be named or properly treated.  She connected with a naturopath finally in her late 30's and has been the picture of health ever since.  She is an amazing Christian woman who practices naturopathy but who also is a Registered Nurse at a hospital in her area.  She hopes to encourage her co-workers to embrace some of what she does in her own practice and many are showing interest so that is exciting.

Anyway, here are the tests that were done on me. Saliva, urine, blood screening under a scope, dry blood screening under a scope, and iridology.  Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Click here for more on how iridology works but the gist of it is that different segments of your eye correlate with the health of various organ systems of the body. 

While it was all fascinating, what blew me away was what Dr. Donna was able to learn about me by looking at my blood.  While she analyzed it under the scope, I was also able to look at it up on a computer screen.  She explained to me what she was looking at and what it meant.  Talk about CRAZY!!  I got to see parasites trolling around in my blood.  Yuck!  They were just as gross as the blobs of yeast all over in my blood.  The awful thing about the yeast is that if it was allowed to continue to grow it would have turned into mold.  Can you imagine??  There was one red blood cell being attacked as we watched.  It turned my stomach, to say the least.  The cell was surrounded by parasites that were actively attacking it by moving in and out like kittens around a bowl of milk.  When Dr. Donna looked at my dried blood, she was able to tell me (correctly without me sharing anything with her first!) that I was a very sickly baby.  More specifically she was able to tell me that the illness was digestion related and that I probably should not have dairy products but that goat's milk would be a great choice.  Well, then I told her that I was in and out of the hospital most of my first 18 months and that I was horribly colicky.  Nobody could figure out what was wrong.  Finally, it was decided that I should be taken off dairy milk and put on goat's milk formula and I did a lot better.  She didn't even look surprised! 

Here is a laundry list of the things Dr. Donna uncovered and has since been treating me for:
  • Pre-diabetic symptoms (Yeah, I know!!  I was consuming way too many simple sugars and carbs which was affecting my blood sugar and ability to handle insulin.  This is why I have cut way back on cake making and may quit altogether for a time)
  • Malnutrition due to inability to absorb nutrients from food
  • Inability to process fats and proteins properly (there was fat in my blood and that shouldn't be)
  • Impacted bowels (sorry--lots of info!)
  • Yeast and parasites in blood (most people with pets have parasites--YUM!)
  • Stomach too acid
  • Blood pH off, as well (prime environment to grow cancer.  If correct pH can be obtained and maintained it is impossible to get cancer as it cannot grow.  This is why many cancer patients have been cured through naturopathy.)
  • Gluten intolerance which may be at the bottom of everything else.  She did not say I am celiac but I could be.
  • Adrenal stress (my addiction to caffeine was not helping this at all)
Please see my next blog to see what my treatment and progess has been. 

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