(Day 8) Detox & Heal: Chapter 1: Healing Is Possible - How I Healed Our Nanny's Seizures, Ovarian Cysts, Migraines & Chronic Acne
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Detox & Heal
(Day 8)
Chapter 1: Healing Is Possible
How I Healed Our Nanny's Seizures, Ovarian Cysts, Migraines & Chronic Acne
Jennifer started working for us as a nanny in 2013, the year before my company crashed. Right before the crash happened, she moved back to Arizona. She then came back to work for us as a nanny in the fall of 2015, when my son, Oliver was about a year old.
In early 2016, Jennifer kept complaining of health problems. She was only 25 – the same age I was when I got sick, interestingly. Almost like God had a plan, as you will see.
She started calling in sick a lot, pretty much weekly. Here's what she was experiencing:
She was having debilitating migraines on a weekly basis, this was causing her to miss work.
She also suffered from extremely painful ovarian cysts every month during her cycle, which would often burst and she would have to go to the hospital to get painkillers, since over-the-counter pain medication didn’t help at all.
She was having seizures a few times a year.
She had chronic acne, which she said she had since she was a teenager.
I wondered if maybe gluten was the problem. I talked to her and asked her if she had ever tried an elimination diet. She said, no she hadn’t, but she was willing to give it a shot.
Gluten-free & Dairy-free Didn't Work for Jennifer
After 30 days on the elimination diet, Jennifer had had no change in her symptoms. She still suffered from migraines and the painful cysts. She still had acne.
So we started reintroducing foods one by one. No reaction to anything. And she was still experiencing chronic pain.
In other words, the elimination diet had been a failure. I had no answers for Jennifer. This made me very sad.
But for those of you who know me, I’m not one to give up easily. I said a prayer, knowing that God would bring me an answer to help Jennifer.
The Hidden Cause of Acne
A few months later, a friend of mine, Melissa Gallico, emailed me a copy of her brand new book, The Hidden Cause of Acne, asking me if I’d consider reading it.
I had known Melissa professionally for nearly a decade. I met her in my earliest days of blogging. Back then, she had a blog called The Cellulite Investigation.
On that blog, she was investigating cellulite and possible dietary and/or environmental causes. I always loved her blog and respected her as an investigative journalist.
The Hidden Cause of Acne was a revelation! It was the answer that I had been seeking for Jennifer.
This was the missing piece for so many people who were not recovering.
The answer: fluoride.
In her mind-blowing book, The Hidden Cause of Acne, Melissa Gallico explains how she discovered it was fluoride that was causing her chronic acne and cellulite.
The Fluoride in Jennifer’s Diet
As I was telling Jennifer about the book, she said, “I wonder if that can help me. I have chronic acne. I’ve had acne my whole life — since I was 16.”
All of a sudden, all of the pieces came together for us. I said, “How much kombucha are you drinking?”
“One or two bottles a day,” she shrugged. “Why?”
“So… 16-32 ounces per day?”
“Yes.”
I then explained that kombucha is really high in fluoride.
She then told me she had been on Prozac, which also contains fluoride, since she was a teenager. This was around the same time she started getting bad acne.
She decided that day to stop drinking kombucha and tea. She announced that she was going to phase herself off the Prozac.
Note: I'm not a doctor. Check with your doctor before you change anything re: medications. (You know I have to say that.)
Of course, I don't recommend going to conventional doctors either. I recommend finding a good holistic/naturopathic doctor, if you must see a doctor. I ended my health insurance last year and I'm never going back. This is just my opinion – but then again, I'm extremely healthy for my age (in my 50s), not on any medications, no food allergies, perfect BMI, etc.
Getting The Fluoride Out
Here's how we got the fluoride out of Jennifer's diet:
Jennifer started eating a totally organic diet. For 30 days, she ate 100% all organic food. This was to avoid the cryolite, a fluoride-based pesticide that is sprayed on most fruits and vegetables.
She also only ate organic meat, drank organic wine and beer. She pretty much followed Melissa’s advice in The Hidden Cause of Acne to the letter.
She avoided eating anything cooked in non-stick (Teflon) or aluminum cookware because we read that Teflon increases the fluoride in food by three times. She used stainless steel and cast iron instead. See my guide to Healthy Cookware.
Jennifer also didn’t eat any seafood due to the high levels of fluoride in seafood. You don't have to stay off seafood forever. She just did it for the detox period. Seafood is not bad for you because it contains fluoride – because it's also very high in iodine so it balances out. But just like I had to stay off sugar and gluten for a period of time while I was healing, you may need to avoid seafood for a while.
She also did not eat anything with animal bones (like bone broth) unless the bones came from animals that were raised on organic feed. This is because fluoride is stored in the bones of animals – so if you make bone broth with bones from animals who ate feed sprayed with pesticides,
I also got Jennifer a fluoride water filter for her birthday gift, so she could filter her water at home.
Jennifer’s Miraculous Results
One month later, all of Jennifer's symptoms were gone:
Her migraines completely disappeared.
Her ovarian cysts stopped forming.
She had no more pain with the cysts since she cut the fluoride out of her diet.
Her chronic acne she had had for almost a decade disappeared (it came back though – I'll talk about why below).
Seven months later after the 30-day detox, she had only had one migraine. One! Migraines she used to get weekly.
As I said, her acne disappeared when she was religious about the diet, but when she slacked, it came back.
Why Her Acne Came Back
Right after the initial 30 days of her strict organic diet, we went on a trip to Arizona for a homeschool conference.
This was September of 2016. We stayed in a hotel and we are eating hotel food, which is not organic, and it’s all cooked in Teflon. Everything had fluoride. And aluminum... keep reading.
We were swimming every day, too. Swimming pool water is not high in fluoride, but it is high in bromine, which like fluoride, is a halide and a hormone disrupter.
Within a few days, her perfectly clear skin was covered with acne again.
In those early months of biohacking, Jennifer found that unless she was fanatical about eating an extremely clean, totally organic diet, didn't eat out at all, and avoids ALL seafood, and if she only cooked without Teflon, that was the only way she could keep her skin clear of acne.
Even if she consumed a little fluoride, her skin would immediately break out.
This didn’t surprise me, because Melissa Gallico described the exact same thing happening to her in The Hidden Cause of Acne. One slip up of fluoride, and her face would erupt with acne.
Fluoride Is Everywhere
This just goes to show you how prevalent fluoride is in our food supply. Most people think they can just filter their water and stop using fluoride toothpaste and they’ll be fine.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In America, we are exposed to fluoride constantly — it’s in almost everything we eat and drink.
See my blog post, Top 5 Sources of Fluoride (It’s Not Your Toothpaste).
Fluoride Is Hard to Detox
Not only that, but fluoride is stored in your bones and teeth… and it acts as a “fake” for iodine so your body will store it in your breasts, your thyroid, your ovaries, and for men, the prostate.
Ever wonder why there’s so much breast cancer, thyroid cancer, ovarian cancer and prostate cancer these days?
Even worse, fluoride has a 20 year half-life. What that means is… if you were to stop eating ALL fluoride right now and you never ate it again, 20 years from now, you would still have half the fluoride in your body.
Bottom line: once fluoride is stored in your body, it’s very hard to remove get it out. And it will continue to cause problems — hormonal problems, bone loss, cancer, etc.
Iodine to the Rescue
Iodine kicks fluorides butt. Just like probiotics work to heal the gut and wipe out pathogenic bacteria, iodine will open up a can of whoop ass on fluoride and kick it to the curb. (Haha can you tell I grew up in Texas?)
Problem is, just like with probiotics, you gotta go SLOW. When I started on probiotics back when I was recovering, if I took too much too fast, I would have really bad die-off reactions. Flu-like symptoms, exhaustion, etc.
When Jennifer first started trying to take iodine, she got a horrible rash. Melissa Gallico, too, would break out whenever she tried to take it.
This is because their bodies were trying to detox the fluoride but they didn't have a way to get it out fast enough.
In The Hidden Cause of Acne, Melissa had to take micro amounts of iodine and slowly, slowly build up. It was worth effort, though. A couple years after starting the iodine protocol, she has remained completely acne-free and cellulite-free. And who doesn’t want THAT?
But Wait, There Are Better Detox Tools Than Iodine
Biohacking with Jennifer and reading Melissa's book taught me a lot, but in the past decade, I've learned a lot more.
The detox protocols I talk about in this book can be used to not only detox fluoride but also aluminum.
Why do I bring up aluminum? Because I believe aluminum and other toxic chemicals are one of the main causes of disease.
We are exposed to these toxins everywhere – not only in food and water and our cookware, but also in vaccines and pharmaceutical drugs, in cigarettes and vaping and marijuana, and they are even spraying them on us with chemtrails.
Yes, EMFs (like 5G) are bad for us, but we wouldn't be that harmed by them if we weren't full of heavy metals and toxic chemicals.
Fluoride Makes Aluminum More Bioavailable
What I realized is that fluoride is a problem, but it's only part of the problem.
Fluoride is harmful. But not just because it tricks the body into not absorbing iodine and messes up your hormones.
Fluoride also increases the body's absorption of aluminum. And aluminum deposits are what cause dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and other neurological problems like Parkinson's disease.
Studies have shown that fluoride not only increases the absorption of aluminum in the water we're drinking, but also in the foods and drinks we eat, and make the aluminum more easily absorbed by the body. See this study, for example, from the Cambridge University Press: Aluminium and fluoride in drinking water in relation to later dementia risk.
Studies also show that fluoride increases the amount of aluminum absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and help it pass across the blood-brain barrier. See this PubMed study: Enhancement of aluminum digestive absorption by fluoride in rats.
It's Not the Food Making Us Sick
We don't get fat because we eat too many carbs. We don't get food allergies from food. We don't get autism because it's genetic. Think about it – an epidemic cannot be genetic. That makes no sense.
In the next section, I'll explain why all of this research as a health blogger led me to the final conclusion... food is not the real problem.
And why the real solution is detox.
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Detox & Heal is a revolutionary guide to overcoming chronic health challenges and reclaiming vitality using basic, natural elements including water, minerals and other essential nutrients as well as frequency, that assist the body in detoxification and rebuilding itself.
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Heal illness with frequency using phototherapy, meditation, and prayer
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