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Autoimmune Disease

The secret of successfully treating Autoimmune disease.

Autoimmune diseases include psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, ulcerative colitis, hashimoto’s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis, and fibromyalgia is now classified as autoimmune.  Click here for a full list.  There are over 100!

Click the names of the conditions to read a case study of a patient who beat their autoimmune disease with the help of True Health.

I made a 5 minute video explaining how medicine, nutrition, functional medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine care for autoimmune disease so you can feel out all your options.

The first autoimmune disease that came to True Health for care was Raynaud’s Disease.  Raynaud’s causes your fingers to turn white, black or blue and hurt like a mother!

Maurice Raynaud, a manly doctor, named this horrible pain after himself.  LOL.  He couldn’t help the disease, and medicine still has no treatment that helps.  The 2 cases that found True Health, found True Health and relief of their pain.

The next one was Graves Disease.  Graves speeds up the thyroid, causing your eyes to bulge out of your head and your heart to race.  The first woman had a resting pulse rate of 180, and her hands were vibrating and shaking.  Real doctors wanted to destroy her thyroid gland.

The second woman had bulging eyes.  Real doctors wanted to remove her eyeballs and cut some of the bones out of her eye socket so they could set her swollen eyes deeper into her skull.

Dr. Robert Graves named the disease after himself, but couldn’t offer much help.  Modern medicine has advanced to offering thyroid destruction and carving out eye sockets.

True Health offered True Health to these 2 women.  LOL.  Maybe I should name that condition, “true health,” after me.

Years ago, I was the corporate doctor, for a small Asheville company.  When they would call the next person, they said, “Hey, Jenifer, it’s your turn to get Stoned.

When someone asks “how you are,” you can say, “I’m Stoned.”  And it will mean you have found True Health.  LOL.  Yes I am quite aware of the other meaning.

If you are still looking for True Health, I’ll tell you how we fixed all those autoimmune disease’s so you can do it yourself.  

Step 1: I looked at a $20 lab test, the complete blood count or CBC.  If the Neutrophils or Basophils were elevated, I prescribed True GI Cleanse, because your body is trying to fight bacterial overgrowth or parasites, and you want to help.  If Eosinophils were elevated, I prescribed True Yeast/Fungal Relief, which kills candida, even if you can’t stick to the perfect diet.  If Lymphocytes were elevated, I prescribed True Viral Defense, our chronic virus fighter, and if Monocytes were elevated, I prescribed True HM Detox.  HM stands for Heavy Metal, but if it can detox mercury or lead, it covers all the “lighter” stuff too!

And remember, you can have fleas and lice!

And I always prescribed True Lymphatic Cleanse to avoid “die off” reactions or detox reactions.  If you feel crappy from die off or detox, just take more Lymph Cleanse.

You can get a CBC with the order of our Allergy/AutoImmune Relief package!  Once you have your CBC in hand, watch as I explain the healthy ranges for that lab.

Step 2:  We shifted their immune system back to center using True Immune Balance 1 or 2.  If we used GI Cleanse or Detox, we followed with Immune Balance 1.  If we used Viral or Fungal Relief, we followed with Immune Balance 2.  You can overlap steps, but jumping ahead will fail.

Step 3: Heal the damage.  True Thyroid Repair for Hashimotos and Graves.  True Clear Skin for Psoriasis and Scleroderma.  (It works amazingly well for acne and poison ivy, too!)  True Pain Relief for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia.  And if you’re not sure, just get True Tissue Heal, which is what we used to find remission in Ulcerative Colitis.

I call “remission” True Health.

You can get the medicines that healed our patients without a prescription, in our online store.

I’m a sensitive healer, and I cannot tell a lie.  Lying hurts me too much.  This protocol has not completely resolved Type 1 Diabetes.  It’s helped, but I’ve not achieved enough healing to stop using insulin.  Maybe it’s impossible, but I’m betting I’ll find a way.  If I do, I’ll share it here!

In every case we resolved, I also taught them to follow Natural Law.  I share that for free too.

Following Natural Law removes STRESS.  Learn how Water Controls Fire and Fire Creates EarthMetal Creates Water and Wood Controls Earth.  And of course, Earth Creates Metal.

It’s so obvious, you will probably nod your head in agreement.

 

Five Medicines to consider if you are diagnosed with Parkinson’s!

Parkinson’s disease is not incurable and it only progresses if you don’t have the right medicine. 

This case study is the true story of a man with Parkinson’s disease who found healing.  Instead of slowing the progression of Parkinson’s, he tried a different path.  Mother Nature.  

I had never cared for a person with Parkinson’s disease before and wasn’t sure what I would be able to do for him, but I did my best.

I ask a question on my intake forms intended to check a persons intuition.  “What do you ‘think’ you will have to do to overcome your symptoms or condition?” 

He wrote, “I need a miracle!”  

That was because he had Parkinson’s disease. And the prognosis or story goes like this. 

Your disease is progressive and cannot be stopped.  We can effectively slow the progression with this medicine.  At some point, however, the effects of your medicine will diminish, and ‘end of life’ care will begin.”  

Another True Health patient was given similarly grim news for her baby, and she said, “Thank you doctor, I’m going to ask someone else.”  She asked True Health, which led to our helping the blind to see story.

Perfect.  We have what he needs.

Parkinson’s Disease is described by doctors as the development of protein deposits in the area of the brain that controls motor coordination, or movement.  These clumps were discovered in 1910 by Dr. Frederic Lewy, and he was honored by having brain damage named after him. The clumps that cause the shuffling and shaking tremors are now called Lewy bodies.  Lol.  I hope my legacy is healing!

The only theories as to why Lewy Bodies exist are: 

1. Bad parents (genetics) 

2. Gut inflammation 

3. Autoimmunity 

The first step toward healing is taking a medical history.  I hate that part. It’s always  so painful.  His went like this.

Four years ago he started having back and neck pain. He’s a veteran, so he has free health care at the VA.  His doctor prescribes Tramadol, brand name Ultram, an opioid pain medicine.  

His wife is an amateur healer, which means that she doesn’t do it for a living, but has done her homework.  She was concerned about her partner taking a medicine with such a long list of side effects and adverse effects.  Look at this list, which includes addiction to the drug with that many side effects! 

She replaced opioid pain relief, and all those side effects, with Anamu tea.  It is a plant native to South America and clinical research has proven that Anamu Tea has anti-inflammatory properties.  

Anamu tea decreased his pain to bearable. 

As long as he drinks his tea, he can work, play, and enjoy life.   Until, one day he  can’t write an order at work.  It looked like scribbles.  When he tried to walk, he lost his balance, stumbling and bumping in to things.

Back to the VA. “Oh, I see what this is. It’s called spinal stenosis, and it causes pressure in your spinal cord.  A shot of cortisone will help with the pressure, but there’s nothing we can do about the stenosis (narrowing of spinal canal).”  

He waited, and waited, and waited for the relief.  It never came. 

At that point, one hand started shaking like he was scribbling on paper full time.  He can barely function, so he checks in one more time with his VA doctor.  

After a coordination test, “Oh, I see what this is. Its called Parkinson’s disease.” 

I already shared “the medical prognosis” of Parkinson’s.  The medical diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease is made by observation, and the prognosis is hopeless

He accepts the hopelessness of slowing down progression and a prescription of L-Dopa.  He returns to the VA two more times to report that it wasn’t helping.   They increase his medicine each time, because  it’s their only resource for helping Parkinson’s.

On a triple dose of L-Dopa, he felt some relief.  He could walk tripping and stumbling, and he could write again.  But it had no effect on his tremor.  His back and neck still hurt, although at a lower intensity with his Anamu tea.  

And that’s where I met him.  His arm was oscillating back and forth, his back ached, his brain was foggy, and his body was exhausted.  Even on the triple dose of L-Dopa, he still shuffled along with the characteristic Parkinson’s gait, and his entire body was crooked and slumped.

He said he couldn’t lift his head up to look straight ahead.  

That actually makes sense from the perspective of regulation, which is what I call our central nervous system. I was taught that the primary function of regulation is survival.  If regulation can’t control your legs, survival forces you to watch your steps.  

Struggling to walk and control movement was exhausting.  I have a zero to ten scale in our intake forms for “how tired do you feel?”  He put an X in the spot for 10. This is an energy scale, so the end of the scale would be dead, no energy.  He was just a touch inside that.  

Normally, tired has a simple solution. Sleep. But he put an X just inside 10 again, for extreme difficulty with sleep. 

When I reviewed his medical records, his previous doctors appeared to agree that this guy didn’t make sense. They tested for Hepatitis C, Cancer, monitored blood glucose, and tested him for drugs.  

His medical records read like doctors desperately searching to fit his pain into their box.  Until he developed the tremor and failed the coordination test.  By observation, they knew where he fit, “Ahh, Parkinson’s disease,” and offered him the hopeless story.

I had never cared for anyone with this condition before, so I didn’t have a plan or expectation. Whatever pain walks through the doors of True Health, I offer my best.  I examine him for imbalance, and search for ways to restore balance.  I look for weakness, and search for ways to provide strength.  

Balance and strength can heal virtually anything, but I had never had an opportunity to give balance and strength to a patient with Parkinson’s disease.  

Without expectation, I begin meeting his needs for balance and strength with a Native American healing ritual.  They would kill a buffalo and eat the spleen or heart to give them strength for battle or for a boy to become a man. 

I do not have a degree in history, I just know what I was told and read.  I’ve learned not to assume anything I am told is completely accurate, but if it makes sense, I’ll give it a try and see for myself. 

I prescribed thymus and adrenal gland extracts, and at the very least I knew they had no side effects!

We use muscle testing as a diagnostic resource.   Using muscle testing as biofeedback, we found that the strength of his arm weakened to bacteria.  His strength was restored when we added the glandular extracts.  I know, people say that muscle testing is unscientific, but keep reading, I think you’ll like the results.

His arm weakened to oxidation and strengthened to Camu Camu, a berry that grows in South America. It is harvested and made into medicine for its powerful antioxidant properties.  

Sloan Kettering writes, “Camu has antioxidant properties, so it may interact with certain chemotherapy drugs that rely on the generation of free radicals (oxidation) for their cytotoxic effects.”

Cytotoxic literally means cell-poisoning or destruction.  So caution, only use Camu Berry if your goal is cellular life.  

His arm weakened to autoimmune and strengthened to Vitamin D.

I love this case study. Doctors submit case studies to the National Library of Medicine database.  A case study is presented to stimulate larger scale research.  

A medical doctor from Brazil diagnosed his patient with Myasthenia Gravis, a progressive Autoimmune disease with no cure.  His patient didn’t give up hope.  She went to an alternative doctor who doesn’t “follow protocol.”  He gave her 80,000 IUs of Vitamin D. 

Her unscientific alternative doctor ran a lab tested for Vitamin D levels, and prescribed based on a lab diagnosed need. They monitored, and as her Vitamin D levels climbed, her disease went in to complete remission, including the lab measure of antibodies (which designates an autoimmune process).  

Medical protocol for Myasthenia Gravis doesn’t including testing for Vitamin D levels.

I love this case study, because it is written from the perspective of medical doctor, who is excitedly describing the healing he just witnessed, and emphatically requesting for more research.  I would guess than every doctor is a healer at heart, they just have to look outside “protocol,” when protocol doesn’t help.  You can read his excited case report here.

The last thing my Parkinson’s patient weakened to was radiation.  We have plenty of exposure these days.  He was irradiated looking for his spinal stenosis, and every time he picks up his cell phone.  He strengthened to a plant commonly known as Gale of the Wind

The scientific name is Phyllanthus niruri, and Phyllanthus is double blind, placebo controlled proven (those words mean, “the highest scientific standard”) to improve outcomes for hepatitis in India.  He had tested positive for Hepatitis C, and his VA doctors gave him the Hepatitis C protocol.  Maybe protocol didn’t quite heal all of it?  In this study, Phyllanthus and a few other plants, improved liver markers by 5 times that of placebo, and perceived weakness was decreased 22 times more than a placebo.  The Indian name for Phylanthus is Bhumyamalaki, and you can read the study here.

That was my best prescription for healing a condition I had never faced.  Two animal glandular extracts, a therapeutic dose of Vitamin D, a berry, and a plant.  All offered from Nature.

Four weeks later, he tells me that he hasn’t had such a clear mind in well over a year.  He said he notices a trend.  His tremor is somewhat better, maybe 5-10%.   

Here’s a healing lesson.  Just do your best and carefully monitor your symptoms.  Keep trying until you feel a healing trend.  Maximum Effort.  If you get stuck, call True Health.    

Another healing lesson.  If anyone tells you that “you can’t heal,” it just means “with their resources.”   Mother Nature offers many, many healing resources. 

With Mother Nature and True Health on his team, his tremor was decreased 60-70% by the end of his second month of care.  The same tremor that was not improved a single bit by a triple dose of the number one medication prescribed for Parkinson’s disease.  

It’s taken over a year to help him heal enough to wean his medicine down from 6 pills to 2.  Every time he lowered the dose, the symptoms would return.  Not nearly as bad as the shaking I witnessed on his first visit, but a slight increase.  Every time, we would add more strength.  At one point we added Frankincense, which helps with inflammation.  Yes, it scientifically helps with inflammation.

In this study, German doctor’s gave Frankincense to patients receiving radiation therapy for brain cancer, and they discovered “Frankincense significantly reduced cerebral edema measured by MRI in the study population.”  They were excited to discover this, because their only other resource was Prednisone, which is life saving, but has harsh side effects.   

The side effects reported for Frankincense:  “A quarter of the Frankincense group reported some minor gastrointestinal discomfort.”   Makes perfect sense, they were eating the sap of a tree.  It’s not food, its medicine.

As the inflammation decreased, his symptoms slowed back down.  Now you can’t even tell that he has Parkinson’s disease, but we still have two pills to go.    

Gold is favored over Frankincense in this country, and you can see that clearly in the profit of medicine and pharmaceutical sales.  Frankincense is proven by medicine’s scientific standard to work just as effectively as Prednisone, at least for this problem.  Why would they keep using the version that costs more and has way more side effects? 

The plant medicines we used have some science to validate our results, but not enough, according to doctors.   With almost no side effects, we gave them a try anyway, and found that Parkinson’s doesn’t have to be progressive, if you have the right medicine.

 Now, instead of the depressing prognosis, he’s just a regular guy exploring his own limits. He pushes those limits for the people he loves, and sometimes goes too far.  Maybe you can relate.  

Only now, he has a resource to heal when he breaks down.  No expectations, we just do our best, even if it’s an incurable, progressive, life shortening disease.  

I named that resource True Health.  We offer A Metabolic Tune-Up if you need help, and our medicine is available in our online store.  Just click “shop” at the top of the page.  

If you have Parkinson’s, please accept my help.  There isn’t a “Parkinson’s medicine.”  We had to give him medicine for bacterial infections, oxidation, stress, immune balance, and then inflammation.  It was a process.

A second Parkinson’s patient is letting me help him, and his tremor is improving, too.  I call the process meeting needs, and it seems to work every time.

Case Study-Migraines, Dry Eye Syndrome, and Telogen effluvium

Migraines stole 8 years of life from this woman!

Healing is our birthright, and yet this lady spent 30 years of her life looking for relief from Migraines that left her incapacitated and puking for nearly 2 days every week, for 30 years.  If you put those days together in a row, that would be 8 YEARS of pain and puking in bed!!

She also dealt with Fatigue and Depression for 20 years, finally diagnosed as a thyroid problem 18 years ago.  Her medical treatment, Synthroid, caused a condition I had never even heard of, called Telogen Effluvium, which is where Lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, attack the bulb of the hair follicle, resulting in hair loss and patches of baldness on her scalp!

What a story, but it doesn’t end there!  She started having Seizures 20 years ago. And more recently, she developed Allergies and Dry Eye Syndrome, that she described as feeling like she has hair in her eyes.

She listed 4 doctors seen for the various conditions, and to give credit, a prescription of Phenobarbital had eliminated the seizures. The rest of the symptoms, however, had not improved and even worsened over time. She did get some temporary relief of hair loss with natural and homeopathic supplements that she tried on her own, because her doctors weren’t helping her, but it didn’t last.

Also, in the last couple years, she noticed a feeling like something was in her throat, a lump that felt like pressure on her throat that she described as “feeling strangled!”

WOW!  Where to begin!?  As always, we look for the ROOT CAUSE!  Get the RIGHT diagnosis, which is always the root cause.  Her labs revealed that her thyroid problem was Autoimmune.  That wasn’t a surprise, as thyroid swelling is often described as a lump or choking.  Another woman I treated described it as wearing a metal choker collar!  (She has been choker free for several years now!)

With autoimmune disease, we look at the immune system for the root of suffering.   Her labs revealed elevated lymphocytes in her blood, which points to a chronic virus.  That was the connection between her thyroid and the hair loss condition. She was autoimmune, not hypothyroid!   The Synthroid aggravated her immune system by providing more thyroid hormone to attack, and spread the attack to her hair follicles causing hair loss!

We also identified low platelets, intestinal inflammation, as well as liver and gall bladder inflammation. All were likely targets of autoimmune attack.

ROOT CAUSE: Chronic viral infection causing immune imbalance and autoimmune attack to the thyroid, platelets, intestinal lining, liver and gall bladder!

SOLUTION: Step one in Autoimmune disease is to gather control of the immune challenge.  Immune challenges could be environmental toxins, chronic infections,  stress, or a combination of more than one.  In her case, the viral challenge was obvious from her history and labs. By using manual muscle testing, we found that two plant medicines, TULSI and ELDERBERRY,  improved the muscle dysfunction associated with the viral induced autoimmune disease.

Tulsi (pictured) is a garden plant from India, with 3000 years of documented use for viral infections, stress syndromes, improving sleep, and even allergies.  Doctors in India research and publish to the same database as US doctors (National Library of Medicine).  In fact, most research on medicinal plants originates from the east and Europe.  In one study, they exposed Wistar rats to a loud noise for 30 minutes (100 decibels, pain begins at 125). They then measured blood cortisol levels, which were “significantly elevated.”   Next they fed the rats a diet including tulsi leaves, and repeated the process.  Loud noise for 30 minutes that was just short of pain level, and this time their cortisol levels were unchanged!  They remained calm in the face of significant stress!

True Shingles Heal is our product featuring Tulsi, also known as Holy Basil.  It works for shingles, herpes virus, and any chronic virus.  You can get it in our online store.  It’s completely void of side effects, so its safe to try.  In fact many people report side benefits such as better sleep.

Elevated stress hormones is one possible root cause of hypersensitivity reactions, like allergies and dry eyes.  Stress hormone overproduction creates hypersensitivity and irritability to your environment (pollens, dust, molds, etc), chemicals, sugar, and even people.

We tested all the above and found sensitivity reactions to pollen, formaldehyde, and people, in the form of critics! Formaldehyde and its cousins are widely used in construction, fabrics, and perfumes. With any new fabric, new buildings, or perfume smell, you are breathing formaldehydes.

From the MN Department of Health website: Formaldehyde is classified as a volatile organic compound (VOC). VOC’s are chemicals that become a gas at room temperature. As a result, products made with formaldehyde will release the gas into the air. This is called off-gassing. The health effects of formaldehyde exposure vary from one person to another. The most common symptoms are eye, nose and throat irritation, coughing, headaches, dizziness, and nausea. Human eyes are especially sensitive to formaldehyde. Many people describe the eye irritation as a burning sensation much like when cutting an onion or when you get soap in your eyes. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified formaldehyde as “carcinogenic to humans”. This is based on nose and throat cancers in working populations with high exposure.

You may know Elderberry as the pharmaceutical drug “Tamiflu”.  Roche pharmaceutical researchers brought Elderberry into their lab to create a chemical version of this plant.  They now sell it as “Tamiflu” for over 100 dollars a capsule. Our 60 serving bottle of True Cold & Flu Relief, which features Elderberry in the God made form, goes for around 30 dollars!  Even if it were the other way around, Elderberry being more expensive, I would still go for Nature’s version!

Elderberry is research proven to be 400% more effective than Tamiflu.

You might also have heard of Elderberry on the TV show, The Walking Dead. The characters were safe and secure in a prison, but a deadly virus hits the group.  If you watch the Walking Dead you know the deal.  When they die, they turn into zombies, so their safe “sanctuary” was being invaded from the inside.  One of the main characters contracted the virus. The farmer remembered his Grandma giving them Elderberry syrup for the flu when he was a kid.  They harvested wild growing Elderberry and saved the day!

RESULTS: On a recent visit, she was excited, “what did Dr. Stone do differently?”  30 years of migraines, a combined 8 years of her life in bed, in pain, nauseous and puking.  ”What did I do?”  No more hair in her eyes.  ”What did I do differently than all those other doctors?”   She felt happy and energized instead of depressed.  And no migraines for many weeks!

I explained root cause again.  A chronic virus stressed out her body and caused immune imbalance and autoimmunity.  I explained that she was “sick” all those years.  Infected and exhausted by a chronic virus.

Her lab recheck showed that the fight isn’t over, but she is winning for the first time in 30 years. We all have bad days, even a bad year.  But  she knows what good feels like. Now she is enjoying a healing trend towards strength and resilience, where even the bad days are tolerable.

She has also experienced how stress and upset affects ALL of her symptoms.  But now she has a plant, similar to a leaf of kale, with medicinal qualities that restore her stress hormones to calm!  So bring it on!  She has a medicine for bad days!

Are you gathering the amazing potential of plant medicines?  Every natural medicine I use has a rich history, scientific validation, and AMAZING healing qualities. They meet body needs to heal and offer strength and resilience.  Pharmaceutical medicines offer suppression of symptoms, slowing disease progression, and side effects.

How in the world did we ever come to believe that pharmaceuticals are better than Mother Nature?  Could it be the influence of billion dollar corporations?

True Health and Mother Nature now offer care without expectation.  We’ve been pushed out of way by profit, and our fighting back is a True Health Membership.  It’s 27 dollars a month.