Yummy Green Smoothies

Lindsey & I are on a gluten free journey.  We are searching out fun ways to eat and drink without the gluten.  Yesterday we made a green drink smoothie.  Green smoothie drinks are so good for your body and they are quite tasty too.  We took pint of strawberries, 1 fresh peach, 8 leaves of kale, 2 Tbsp of raw honey and 2 cups of very cold water and blended.  It tasted so good.  This was in fact all raw foods.  Raw foods are simply foods right off the tree or from the ground that have not been processed.  Your body knows exactly what to do with this true real food.  If you eat a snicker bar it is not intended for your body, your body has to work over time trying to figure out what to do with all the ingredients that are harmful to your body.  So it makes your organs work harder and can cause a breakdown in your digestion.  There are alot of great gluten free recipes out there and we are having so much fun together learning as we go.  So go for it and try something good and quite healthy for your body.

                                                  Have a healthy smiley day!   Belinda

If it dont feel right it probably is not

You know when you dont feel like something a doctor is telling you is really what you ought to be doing and you just kind of go along and say okay.  Well your probably right.  I really think that alot of people go to the doctor for one thing only to come away on alot of Rx medications they really dont need that will in fact cause alot of other problems.  My husband and I are alot more coscience of what we eat and clean with.  We take a little more effort.  It is not easy because we are so used to eating anything and not really paying attention to the fact that it has so many chemicals in it to perserve it.  You can really learn alot from Amanda Fabry (she is married to Chris Fabry who is the host of Chris Fabry live on Moody Radio)  who her whole family became so sick with nose bleeds and rashes from bad mold in their home that they had to walk away and not take anything with them but the clothes they had on and then they had to be destroyed.  Even the family dog had to be put down because he was affected also.  www.momsaware.org is a fantastic site to learn alot about homemade everything so you know what your putting into your body and on your body.  Also what you are cleaning your home with to keeping the bugs away.  Even though our daughter has suffered so much we have gained some good wisdom from this all.  Pay attention to all the ingredients in your food and cleaners...you would be amazed at just how toxic they can be.

Finding a doctor who could help

As the doctor of Holistic medicine in Boston pointed out to me that this could be my daughter's liver clogged up.  He encouraged us to get her up to Boston and it would take about a week of intensive treatment (this is without drugs) to help get her liver detoxing.  So Boston is a long way from Florida and we were not sure how we would pay for this trip, but I had a friend tell me to go ahead and make the appointment God will provide if it is meant to be.  After much work from the kindest friends and from our church  they had a fund raiser through Chick-fil-a because Lindsey used to work there, a huge yard sale, and our loving church gave a love offering that really helped get us on our way.  I even had a friend from school who I had not see or talked to since school call and offer free airline, hotel, and rental car for us.  She made the reservations.  We were prepared to go.  Not even 24 hours later the doctor contacted me and would not see her because she had had MRSA (very serious staff infection) within the past 12 months.  We were devistated and really did not know what to do.  Several people had recomended another doctor here in Florida about 45 min away.  We were not sure if he could help but he also did integrative medicine and treats naturally.  So I made the appointment.  We went and it was very costly but not compared to the thousands in medical bills from all the hospitals visits we have had along with all the numerous specialty consults who did us no good.  This doctor who finds the root cause of her problem took 14 vowels of blood, a dexa scan, saliva testing, Alcat allergy testing, he was pretty confident that she had the following: (Weak liver, leaky gut, nutritional deficiency,low progestrone and adrenal fatigue)
 Well he was right about it all and we found out the culprit of her problem was Gluten it was the strongest red flag on the Alcat test.  He had her go on a 10 day liver detox and remove all gluten from her diet and within a couple of days she was already clearing up.  You see for some reason her body was unable to digest the gluten  it was just in her gut unable to filter and this rubbed wholes in her stomach causing leaky gut.  All these toxins were entering the blood stream and trying to expel through her skin.  This is why she was beaming neon pink she was completely toxic.  We have since learned that the birds were destroying crops of wheat so scientist came up with a idea to alter the wheat and how it grows by putting more gluten in it....it kept the birds away by making them sick.  So what do you think this will do for our bodies?  This is why so many people are having more problems with celiac disease, allergies, joint issues our bodies dont know what to do with it.  We are learning that there are many gluten free choices it is not easy but very doable.  Even restaruants now offer gluten free on their menus.....She is doing a world better.  She is on no medications.  She is in recovery from all the drugs, and what it did to her body.  Her hair fell out and it is trying to come back but slow.  Our doctor has her on weekly nutrional IV's to help heal her liver and detox her body.  All kinds of vitamins, fish oils, natural progesterone that is food based not from animals, glutamine, EPA-DHA to help reduce all this inflammation.  Can't thank God enough for finally helping us get to the root of the problem.  There is an answer if you are suffering with something like this. Dont give up keep searching.  Designs for health podcast are free to listen to and offer many topics of diseases that can be treated naturally.  More to come so stay tuned!   Hang in there you will get better!  Until next time smiley's to you all day long!

                                                        Belinda

Doctors only know what they know

Doctors today learn mainly about drugs that can treat symptoms.  Each time we would speak to one of the many doctors we saw they would say "well we can try this medicine and if it does not work we will go to another medicine"  But, the problem was none of them could truely tell me what the root cause of her problem was.  We even had doctor's tell us "it really sucks that you have this problem and you will need to keep taking steroids even though I know it will cause your bones to deteriorate, gain weight, cause diabetes" and so on.  NO!  I did not believe that.  I had been searching on the internet for what seemed like years researching trying to find something that would work for her.  What really aggrevated me was that we would see the top doctors at the top notch clinics and they would ask us "what kind of soap are you using"  did they really think we had gone this far not to consider anything common sense would?  As a mother my frustrations were through the roof.  When your child is so weak and in complete misery to the point that they are unable to live life you better know a mama does not want to hear "what kind of soap are you using".  My daughter had the following symptoms that grew worse, red neon skin all over her body, itching, oozing water from the break down of skin, heat & sky high IgE levels (this is the marker for allergy in your body), dryness, loss of pigment, weakness, dehyrdration and unable to control body temperature not because she had a temperature but the fact that she was losing body heat through her head where the skin was broken.  I knew somehow someway God would help us through.  This started in 2009 and we just now in the last 3 months have gotten to the bottom of her problem and are getting so much better.

I researched on line and found all kinds of free podcasts on the topic of dermatitis and eczema.  I found the what I call "regular medical doctors" talking about the methods we had already tried with no results.  (immune suppressants -that were actually chemo), wet wraps which is where you rub steroid cream on your body and then wrap up in wet pajama's then you put dry pajama's over them and get under the cover for 1 hour), allergy shots).  These things only made her worse. 

I then found a podcast that was free and the name of it was "Designs for Health"  I subscribed to the podcasts and I was able to listen to a doctor who is a chiropractor and also a natural integrative doctor with holistic methods.  I heard him tell about a girl who had eczema all over her body and it sounded so much like my daughter.  To make a long story short  I spoke with him he suggested that her liver may not be functioning properly therefore causing toxins to be building up in her body and they could be trying to release through the skin.  Well he was right.  I will continue tomorrow with what happend and how we discovered the root cause of the whole problem.  You will be amazed! 
          
                           Until next time hang in there you will get better!

                                           Belinda

The Doctor War

I am writing this blog on behalf of my beautiful daughter who has suffered severely for the last three years with chronic Atopic Dermatitis or Eczema whatever you wish to call it.  When our daughter was little she had chronic eczema from the time she was three months old and  was on lots of steroids.  She was puffy with moon face from the steroids and we went from doctor to doctor who had all these great promises that they could get her better no problem.  I tried every cream known to man even home remedy things that just did not work.  Her skin became very raw, bright red, itchy, so very dry and hot.  I had doctors tell me that she should not take a bath except once a week or wrap her up in saran wrap to help hold in moisture.  We also had doctors telling me she should not wear anything with wool.  Right before her 5th birthday I had put her in the tub which was very painful because of all the broken skin and it would burn so bad, but on that particular day she started having green infection oozing out of her little body.  I guess the water was pulling it out.  I immediately took her to the emergency room because I knew that this infection was a bad one.  I just remember bright green all over her.  In the ER her little arms were so raw the nurses did not even know where to try to stick her for a IV because there was no good place.  Our daughter had been so sick and so worn out from crying she finally just kind of passed out from exhaustion.  They transported her that night to another hospital in a city over that was a children's specialty hospital.  They treated her with IV's and steroids which did clear her up.  She went good for a while and then another hospital stay again for another week.  We were so afraid that she was not going to be able to start kindergarten that year so I was checking into having someone come to our home to start school.  But some kind of miracle took place and she got better and was able to start school right on time. 

So from the time she was in kindergarten till she graduated we never saw this problem again.  In fact we thought that it was over and we would never see it again.  A year after her graduation from highschool she left fine one morrning and then came back only to be broke out all over in little red dots on her entire body.  I took her to our local walk in clinic because I thought she had gotten into something and may have had blood poison.  The clinic ran blood test but did not see anything out of the ordinary so they gave her a prednisone pack and this began a three year journey to a place I would not wish on anyone.  I will continue tomorrow with more details.  Just remember you can and will get better!
                                                                         
                                                                                                     Belinda