Business Name: Living Proof Naturally
| Whole Food Plant-based Health Coach My healing journey back to me! One day in 2018 I received a refill in the mail from the specialty pharmacy I got my MS meds from. It was for Ampyra which is a medication that’s supposed to help with walking and balance issues for MS. I had been on this for several years. I am reading the side effects for this drug and, among the many, are balance and cognitive issues. These are my top 2 issues! And I start to wonder if the meds are also causing these problems along with the disease activity. I call the pharmacist to inquire how to stop taking Ampyra. Do I need to taper it? He tells me it can just be stopped completely, and it takes around three days to clear the body. I inform my neurologist and I stop taking it. Two days later when I wake up I had a clarity that I have not experienced in so long. In fact, I cannot even remember a time when I was this clear. It was palpable. The clarity was visual, mental, physical, spiritual. It was the sensation of my skin, the hair on my arms & the energetic space just above it (energy field & aura). My senses were waking up again in almost a new forgotten way. This was the beginning of the peeling of the onion layers back to ME! I began, with the support and guidance of my doctors, to remove medications one by one. This was about a year long process for most of the medications until I was free of all prescription medications & supporting my body naturally with herbs, homeopathics & nutrition. I went to see a nutritionist soon after stopping the first few medications. She put me on a whole food plant-based diet and a gluten free diet. I was not gluten intolerant but I was sensitive to gluten. I had weeks at a time of vomiting and was often unable to keep anything down. Most of the time my stomach felt floppy and upset. I came to learn that most people with autoimmune conditions need to heal their gut and that means cutting out gluten. In about 3 weeks I was seeing remarkable changes & shifts. The inflammation in my body & brain was almost nonexistent now that I had stopped having dairy and gluten. The clarity that began earlier was enhancing and as I felt better, I had more energy and enthusiasm for my new healthier way of eating! Healthy plant-based food was now my medicine! I was on my way!! I began incorporating many holistic methods to support my brain and body in a new, different, natural, more synergistic way. Living Proof Naturally. This included acupuncture, a naturopath, herbs, including continuing using medical marijuana, massage, homeopathics, chiropractic, meditation, plant-based eating, chi gong and more would all be supportive elements in my healing journey. |
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