Multiple Sclerosis: My Recovery!
By Robert McClintock
Rob@healingleaves.com
The end of my autoimmune nightmare.
22 years ago my life started to come to an end, at least that is how I viewed it. I was strong and aggressive and thought I had the world by the tail until I began to exhibit a lot of strange symptoms. Fatigue, weakness, and depression were the first things to hit me. It was tough to sit day after day in an easy chair wondering how we were going to pay our bills and not have the strength to go do something about it. My wife would grab me by my belt and shirt collar and make me walk to the mailbox every day but that was a day's work for me. I would sit exhausted in my chair for the rest of the day.
I visited numerous doctors and specialists only to have them shake their heads in bewilderment or just have them tell me I was depressed and needed some antidepressant medication, (I wasn't depressed until I was sick!), or have them say it was all because I didn't eat dairy products. I can't believe they had the audacity to charge me for wasting my time like that!
Eventually after about 8 months on a low fat diet and tons of raw vegetable juices and some fever treatments at a hydrotherapy center I was able to go back to work on a very limited scale. I still suffered from mind numbing fatigue, weakness, and sleeplessness. The symptoms remitted and relapsed several times over the next 3 years. Then one day I became terrible dizzy at work and was taken to the hospital. The neurologist thought perhaps I had an aneurysm but the MRI ruled that out. It is possible that an injury from a recent car accident was causing the dizziness but I will never know for certain. At this point I gave up working again and resigned myself to being on disability. Soon I began to experience numbness in my right shoulder and leg along with many bouts with optic neuritis. When I would travel by plane and return after even being gone for only a couple of days my vision would be so bad I could barely read big print for days. I began to develop spasticity in several muscle areas. The worst was the spasms in the muscles that controlled my ability to swallow. This scared me half to death. I had seen other MS patients with tubes in for feeding and it really freaked me out to think that that was what I was facing soon.
Around this time I began studying botanical medicine in depth and began to focus on a possible nutraceutical approach to a recovery. This was such a rewarding experience that I changed careers and work in this field today! I made some very amazing discoveries about my own condition.
Positive changes came a little at a time over the next few years. I finally realized that I got really sick any time I had any dental work done. I finally had all my mercury amalgam fillings removed, which nearly killed me since I wasn't aware that there was a right and wrong way to do this. I should have been taken it a bit slower, changing one or two at a time and it would have been really great if I had been taking a chelator like NDF at the time. I was tested later for heavy metal toxicity and my mercury levels were really high which amazed me since I thought that taking the fillings out was all that I had to do. What I didn't' know was that each of those 13 fillings had been leaking about 3,000,000 atoms of mercury into my system for the last 25 years and the accumulation was locked up in my fat and brain tissues and still needed to be removed. Since that time I have used NDF and had those levels come down into safe limits. I used a do-at-home heavy metal test kit to monitor my progress since at the moment I didn't have the $400 that a toxicologist would charge. It was surprisingly easy to use and accurate. If you need a heavy metal test kit contact Healing Leaves Products LLC 877-691-5845.
God was really blessing my mind about this time and helped me to develop several very valuable nutritional supplements, which I began to take faithfully. I decided that since I couldn't find the products that I needed that would work for me that I would have to formulate them myself. I saw no change at all for some months. However it became apparent that my strength and endurance was returning, the numbness was disappearing as well as the blurred vision from optic neuritis. The main supplement is Immuno-plex AV which is an advanced glyconutrient complex. My opinion is that is a very effective immune modulator, which in effect prevents my own cytotoxic T-cells from attacking my own myelin sheathing. There is some evidence that Alpha Lipoic acid has some benefit with respect to protecting and restoring the integrity of the myelin sheathing. Immuno-plex also seems to be a pretty good immune stimulator since I very rarely get even a sniffle any more. The second is Super Green Phyto Complex which gives me a ton of phyto-nutrient support. One serving is like eating several servings of fresh raw produce, except better since it contains so many extra nutrients.
I also take Cell-U-Zyme daily. Cell-U-Zyme is a systemic enzyme complex that I believe works in my blood stream to help in dissolving cerebral/spinal lesions and helping to restore neurological function. I think that it has also been a great help with my utilization of nutrients. I had been quite underweight ever since the initial attack until I began to take Cell-U-Zyme regularly. I have gained back all of my original weight and look a lot better. I also try to take Super Antioxidant Formula frequently as well to help facilitate healthy DNA. I commenced taking this supplement regimen about 5 years ago and the result has been phenomenal! I feel great! I travel the world doing mission projects, cut my own firewood, ride horses, garden, and about anything else I want to do! The last few months I have had the opportunity to bump into people that I haven't seen in about 2 years. These people were astounded at the results of this supplement program. I look about 10 years younger to them than I did 2 years ago. This has happened to me so many times in the last few weeks that I no it's not just a fluke! I started laughing at the airport after several people called me "Young Man!" I am a grandfather!! I really think that my story can inspire other people to take action to reclaim their own health from multiple sclerosis as well as other autoimmune diseases.
My hypothesis of the pathology of autoimmune diseases:
This is of course just my opinion but my observations have been pretty consistent, as many people have tried my approach to their own recovery from various autoimmune conditions. I believe that an autoimmune disorder is an autoimmune disorder no matter what the category. The condition tends to express itself differently in different people hence its various names: Multiple sclerosis (MS), rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, etc. In each case you still have the person's own immune cells (T-cells) targeting the body's own tissue rather than a pathogen. Due to some toxicity type, be it metal or chemical the cell to cell communication via chemical messengers becomes disrupted and to the confused defense cells the body's own host cell's DNA cannot be differentiated from that of a pathogen such as a virus.
Step one: The immune system begins to weaken due to systemic toxicity due either to heavy metals, chemical toxicity or the result of poor lifestyle habits; probably a combination of all of the above.
Step two: A pathogen such as one of the following three common viruses presents with an infection: Epstein Barr Virus, Cytomegalovirus, Herpes Simplex-6. People with autoimmune conditions very frequently have one or more of these either as a current infection or a recent past infection. I have seen numerous patients who had all three infections at the same time. Fighting these viruses on a long-term basis tends to cause the immune system to get more and more hostile as time continues.
The removal of the toxic element(s) and the addition of immune modulation by glyconutrients such and Immuno-plex AV are essential in my opinion. The new immune system now can eventually overcome the pathogen and the recovery can be appreciated as complete if the lifestyle of a low-fat, low sugar natural diet high in phytonutrients and is complemented by total removal of the toxic element is achieved. In rare cases the pathogen is a spirochete rather than a virus. This distinction must be made via lab test. Standard western blot tests are highly inaccurate. Ask your healthcare provider to check out this lab: www.igenex.com
Note: this information is not promoted as a cure. No claims are made. My belief is that by adding certain elements into the body a greater opportunity for natural processes of healing may be enabled. This information is made available as educational in nature and should not be misconstrued as medical advice. This information not intended to treat, cure, diagnose or prevent any disease. The FDA has not evaluated this information.
