17. I went to China!!

Again, it's been another long time since I've written here ... and in the meantime, as the title reads; I went to China - we left May 30th and returned June 22, 2008. Here's the link to my China blog with lots and lots of photos: chinainjune.blogspot.com

And, when I was in China I had a technical problem working on this blog. Somehow I "accidentally" went through the process of closing it, or locking it and poof - it was gone. It's a long story ... but as it is; here I am, back in Canada and well able to continue blogging.

A mercury related note: Yesterday I saw an ND in order to start the process of metal chelation. This is a long time coming as I first had my mercury fillings removed in April of 2006 and wanted to start chelation maybe a half year later. Wow, it's been 2.5 years since I had my mercury removed! But since the bm (or lack thereof) issues started, I thought I should not do the chelation. (note from the future ... I still haven't done the chelation.)

I'm pretty convinced that the constipation/digestive problems I've been dealing with arose due to hormonal changes in my body - I'm 51 now, and have been experiencing peri-menopausal symptoms for at least 4 years already. A product called "Calm" with the main ingredient, magnesium citrate, has helped maintain my bm regularity. But I've found that different people find different things work for them, seems it's trial and error which is still better than medication.

In the meantime I've worked on other improvements. I've gone through an internal cleansing process with an online cleansing program (http://www.hps-online.com) and that has brought about even more health improvements! I say without a doubt that I am much healthier today than I even was a year ago. And a year ago I was much healthier than the year before that.

The least of the benefits of my cleansing has been that I've lost 25 lbs and am down 2 or 3 dress sizes.

So, back to chelation; the process of determining how much of various metals are in my body involves a toxicity test. I'm supposed to take some DMSA, drink 1.5 litres of water over a period of 6 hours, collect my urine during that time, and send a sample of it to be tested. Apparently they test for a number of different toxic metals. This will be interesting since I know from a hair test done about 3 years ago that I had high levels of aluminum in my body. Maybe some of it has been extracted from the fasting/colenemas cleansing I've been doing, I don't know.

I've been having spirulina on a regular basis in my morning fruit smoothie and that, I've heard, is supposed to absorb metals from the system. (My fruit smoothie is usually one fruit like pears or apples - sometimes I'll throw in a few strawberries. This morning I had 3 organic pears with a tsp of spirulina, a tbsp+ of flax seed powder, a tbsp+ of chia seeds, some 3-6-9 oil, a cup of hot water and some stevia; it was very yummy!)

So, I'll report back after I find out the results of this test - it'll take over a month since my ND is getting married and will be away for two weeks.

Never despair, there's always hope for a healthier future - but you have to want it and you have to work at it. And of course, either way, there's always hope when you put your life in the hands of Jesus.

much love to all who read this,
Dorothea

16. Where I am now...

I haven't posted here for about 10 months, but I wanted to let my blog know that my health is still improving. I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but it's a good record for me.

Well, it was in May of 2007 that I last wrote about the candida diet I was on - which temporarily helped, but not for long... The next month I cried out to God in desperation because of the bm difficulties that were still pestering me and the following morning I found a website that talked about juice fasting. I was about to try that next, even bought a book about it... and so I clicked on the link and looked around a bit to see what I could learn about juice fasting. The site address was HPScleansing.com and because my mind was pretty foggy, all I did was look at the pictures and listen to the single short video. (Since then, newer videos have been put up)

I asked my husband to do some research on the site since my mind was particularly foggy. He thought it was a good idea and that's all it took to convince me that the process could actually help me - and help is what I found. If anyone wants to cleanse and do it properly, after all my experimenting, reading, testing, and failures, I can say I'm pretty sure that this site has very good info. The program involves a series of four - seven day cleanses (with juice fasting), taken over a period of a few years, I've only been through two cleanses so far; but what a difference it's made!!!

I found that there is no quick fix - like everything else I'd been trying - this program turned out to be long process but it seems like a more permanent fix. Doesn't that make sense though? I've been 50 years with this body and have tried many diets and exercises in my attempt to stay fit. I've had my bouts with junk food and laziness and then on top of all the damage I did to myself, there was the damage of toxic chemicals like mercury ... and who knows what else, wrecking havoc on my organs.

The GOOD NEWS is, that our bodies are magnificent "machines" - they always want to come back to a healthy state - and when we give them what they need to work with, they can fix themselves!!! And that's what this program is doing - it's providing me with the information and guidance I need to help my body to fix itself. My health is truly improving in wonderful ways.

The urls below are posts that I made at the HPS forum after my two cleanses - anyone can read them, just copy and paste into your browser.

http://www.hpscleansing.com/group/showthread.php?t=3629

http://www.hpscleansing.com/group/showthread.php?t=3764

In short, I feel like they've given me my life back. One of the great side effects of this cleansing process was that I lost those 20 pesky extra pounds, and over 1/2 year has passed and they're still gone!

So, that's it for now.

And, if you haven't gotten the mercury taken out of your body - please do it; it's one of the many things that will help you to regain your health.

love,
Dorothea

Oh, I've started painting again (that's how great I feel) Here's a pic of one of this year's paintings: