Rather Be Healthy

Confusing…

Today I again tried…successfully to stand with my walker, I must give my thanks to the carers Donna and Kay who helped position things and ensured I didn’t fall, thanks girls…
They’re not girls per se but much younger than the old git writing this.
Anyway back to my point, I was able on four occasions to stand, make adjustments to my position and force my legs to stretch while weight bearing, it was probably a full minute each time which made me feel great but also exhausted me.
I’m very confident that by following the Ann Boroch Protocol as I have done that in general I’ve reduced the toxic components in certain foods which has improved my health/life..

I must point out that in all research I’ve done I’ve never found a definitive answer to the question of: does vasodilation increase the Rbc count? okay yes it does enable easier blood flow due to widening of the blood vessels but nowhere does it specifically say the haemoglobin which carries oxygen (oxyhaemoglobin) is increased.

Just an observation…

So, my condition appears to have taken a big step forward which in all honesty is making me very happy but is also a tad confusing…

Something that I’m very passionate about is what it is and how it’s possible to genuinely enable the body, mine specifically to actually “Live” again. I say “live” because I’m not talking about opening my eyes in the morning and staying in the same place until they close again for five hours at night. No… I’m talking about getting up and actually doing things during the day, going outside in the fresh air, driving in a car, going to a restaurant and a million other things. So in order to make that happen, contrary to the worlds so called medical experts I’ve been an avid follower of the tried tested and PROVEN way of doing this which is the Ann Boroch Protocol…
Since reading her books specifically on the subject of doing this I have to say that I’m a believer..

Some of you may have read one of my previous posts regarding an addition that I’m doing.
I’m obviously not going to talk about that specifically here as it’s not P.C

Anyway today was a very important day for me because after 15.months in bed for 23 hours per day because of serious knee damage, I did something my carers and knee surgeon didn’t think was likely to happen. I transfered from my commode to standing at my walker. I wasn’t able to walk, but just standing and stretching my legs weight bearing felt soooo good. I know for the able bodied readers here that may not seem like a big deal, but trust me when I say…to me that was.
Massive..

In a couple of my previous posts I’ve used the analogy:
The mind is like a parachute… it doesn’t work unless it’s open…
And now more than at anytime in my past that analogy is appropriate.
So before I draw comments such as
“No freaking way”… or…
“You’ve got to be kidding”
It’s been 19 days since I incorporated this into my daily regimen of religiously following the Ann Boroch Protocol and to be completely honest, I’m blown away…
As I’ve said I noticed slight improvements on the second day and those have progressively improved.
I’m significantly stronger overall, my core is like a night and day difference, yesterday for the first time in years…years…I was able to lay down for about 30 minutes, I actually dozed until a tentative fear hit me..” what if I can’t get up, I’ll just pee in my bed and be sooo embarrassed when my sister Suzie comes over at 9.30 a.m….. this happened about 05.15 a.m. so I was thinking I was going to be laying on my side, half uncovered, in a pee soaked bed!!!
So I’m sure you can imagine how I felt when that didn’t happen. What did happen was that I was able to sit up without any trouble at all, in fact it was quite easy, I righted myself and adjusted my position in bed as if I was an able bodied man.
So now I have to clear something up, in my opinion this will massively help when you’re following the ABP… personally I don’t think (just my opinion) that this alone would remove multiple sclerosis from your body, although when I was told about it, it was made clear that removing all synthetics and chemicals was of paramount importance.
Okay, are you ready for this…
Drum roll:::
Beetroot juice!!!
Yes Beetroot juice…
The one I use is 100% organic..
Beetroot juice..90% and organic apple juice10%
When I saw the post regarding
New Beginnings…
I made an enquiry, I just thought it sounded interesting and after several back and forth chats I talked with Goff August…who’s actually Irish not Dutch as I’d presumed..
He explained about his MS completely disappearing and what he’d done to make that happen.
All synthetic and chemical additives in soaps, deodorants etc had been removed..
By all means contact him on Facebook to get a more detailed explanation.
My own personal opinion based on my 19 days experience is that drinking 500ml of organic Beetroot juice daily will, not might but Will make a huge difference.
The taste to me wasn’t nice although that will probably be the opposite to other people, so I added 2 teaspoons of Bragg Amino Acids..
Note: the high density of nitrates convert to nitric acid and stimulate red blood cell production which enables a much improved oxyhaemoglobin count… meaning much more oxygen to the body organs… thats a very basic explanation.
In my humble opinion following the ABP and slowly but surely eliminate dairy, gluten and sugar will put your body in a far greater position to adjust then accept the benefits associated with beetroot juice and nitric acid (No2 and No3)…
Make no judgement or assumptions, keep an Open mind because I honestly believe that this is the missing piece in our jigsaw puzzle…

So yesterday was the fourteenth day of adding to the Ann Boroch Protocol, and in all honesty what I’m doing IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE..

I know it might seem that I’m being cruel by not saying what it is that I’m doing but in all honesty and fairness I want to be 100% confident it’s worth letting others know and suggesting it’s worth trying to do yourself.
I have to make this very clear, this isn’t my discovery or from my research, someone else can take the credit and for that I’m grateful.
Anyway, an update:
Day one, nothing obviously.
Day two, I definitely left a little stronger..
Since then I know I feel better but understand that nothing positive happens overnight when someone has this disease, but the small and subtle positives are very obvious to me..
I’m much stronger in my core I lay on my side for about 15 minutes 5 or 6 times each day.. Not too long ago there was no chance of me getting up but now it’s easy.
I’ll wait a few more days before I’ll explain in detail, but trust me.
A shock is coming..

Stop trying to cure MS…

Isn’t it strange, tomorrow is World MS Day… as has been noted there are almost 2.5 million people worldwide with multiple sclerosis and this supposedly benevolent organisation is promoting awareness…
Awareness of what I wonder? That the worlds medical experts and the pharmaceutical industry can’t find a way or removing the disease from the human body, even though 2.5 million are suffering.

This is what the NHS say:

There’s currently no cure for MS, but a number of treatments can help control the condition.
The treatment you need will depend on the specific symptoms and difficulties you have.
It may include:

Treating relapses with short courses of steroid medicine to speed up recovery…
Specific treatments for individual MS symptoms…
Treatment to reduce the number of relapses using medicines called disease-modifying therapies…

Disease-modifying therapies may also help to slow or reduce the overall worsening of disability in people with a type of MS called relapsing remitting MS, and in those with a type called secondary progressive MS who have relapses.
Unfortunately, there’s currently no treatment that can slow the progress of a type of MS called primary progressive MS, or secondary progressive MS in the absence of relapses.

So no cure… okay we know this hideous disease can’t be cured, but why spend time and money attempting to do something with debilitating side effect riddled drugs trying to cure MS.

Hah!!!!
We don’t care about curing MS.. its a shitty hideous disease, I’m personally not interested in curing it…
But what about my body, your body, anyone that’s unfortunate enough to have this pariah residing in it..
Let’s focus on it!!!
So let’s devote our time and effort onto Healing our damaged body…
Using natural unadulterated foods and supplements let’s kick its ass right out of here. Then Heal the body, the temple we live in 24/7…
Hmm does that sound like a better aim for World MS Day…

The way I see it is that big pharma and the medical world are simply looking at the wrong thing..

Stop trying to cure MS… instead…
……………Heal the body……………..

I’m freaking….

During my day especially since I buggered my knees over 15 months ago and being confined to bed I’ve forced myself to try and exercise, limited as it is, I’ve tried to do something several times each day.
Mostly it’s my core and upper body simply because I’m unable to work my legs as all sufferers of MS will know, they just don’t work…
Anyway…. I mentioned about ten days ago that I’d incorporated something new into my life and no its not the horrendously expensive Protandim Nrf1 and Nrf2 which I’m sure would help although any results wouldn’t be seen for several months after starting.
What I am doing doesn’t cost an arm or leg, no, what I’m doing is quite simple and inexpensive, as I said last week I’m going to reveal all in another week, but at this time I’m just going to give an update on my personal progress.
Again I’m going to emphasise that this is an addition to the Ann Boroch Protocol which in my opinion is saving my life…. emphasis on Life…. not existence which is all that’s happening if you have a so called incurable disease…
It’s frightening that “medical professionals” Hah!!! just attempt to push mind numbing drugs onto us with the ridiculous excuse of helping us cope with the inevitable…
Our minds are exactly as they were prior to MS, its the freaking drugs that has caused mental limitations.
It’s so easy to go off on a rant!!!, so back on track….
I’m definitely easier to do things physically than it was ten days ago, before if I’d lay to my left in order to take pressure off my butt by resting my head on the pillow to my side which helped a little. It would take 20 minutes and completely exhaust me to get back to a sitting position.
Now I can get up immediately with no fuss, I can get into a comfortable position without any help.

If I said I was pleased by the changes I’m experiencing it would be a lie… because I’m not pleased….
I’m freaking Amazed…

I am genuinely…

When I started on the ABP back in September 2017 I was very hopeful of the end result which I knew would be four plus years away. I think when considered by non MS sufferers that four years would be too long to stick with any protocol especially one as strict as this, but for those of us that have been suffering, and it is Suffering with this hideous disease especially knowing that the “experts” all say is incurable, then four plus years is no big deal…
Anyway as most people know I had an accident in March 2020 that buggered my knees and kept me in bed since apart from bathroom breaks of course.
I feel confident in saying that the only obvious MS symptoms I have now is weakness, but knowing I don’t move around as I did 15 months ago so my legs, arms and my body in general isn’t getting exercised as it would normally have done, but even so I’m positive that the ABP has been doing a great job.

Okay so now I’m going to describe other changes that are attributed to something else, something I can honestly say is amazing me. This “something else” I’m not going to say what it is yet, it’s only been one week today since it was incorporated into my daily regimen. I haven’t and won’t change or stop the protocol that’s changed my life but something has been added.
This isn’t something I’ve discovered, I didnt read about it or did some indepth research, I was told about it so wanted to see for myself.
I’ll carry on and reveal all in a week or so but trust me when I say that at this time….
I’m genuinely amazed…

Different things…

Waking up each morning to most people is a blessing, to some unfortunately who are subject to the pain, discomfort and limitations of disease it might be perceived in a completely opposite way. But….it doesn’t have to be like that, I’m very much a glass half full type of person, as I’ve written before that after my original diagnosis in February of 2004 I scoured the Internet, read books and talked to as many specialists in what is mistakenly called “Alternative medicine” to find a way of beating this so called incurable disease.
I just refuse to accept what the drug pushers, sorry doctors believe to be true..
They say that multiple sclerosis is incurable…. No!!!! that classification isn’t true, they just haven’t found a way yet… the trillion dollar pariahs, big pharma just want to milk the cash cow of disease for as long as possible.
In August of 2017 I read a book by Ann Boroch called Healing Multiple Sclerosis.. it changed my life, I started on the Ann Boroch Protocol in September 2017 and am so grateful to Janet Orchard for all her help and guidance.
Is the protocol a quick fix…No…
Is it easy…No…
Does it work…Yes…damn right it does..
So going back to the heading, yes waking up in the morning can be perceived as the start of a painful and frustrating day, I choose to see it as a glass hall full sort of way..
Being sick and the victim of disease or being sick but following the ABP are two very different things…

You are right…

Okay I’ll start this post with a fact, no sorry, I’ll start this post with two facts: firstly that the Ann Boroch Protocol is hard, damn hard… and secondly is also a fact but a fact that is even more important…. what is it…its that the protocol works!!!

Looking back to the day I actually started which was what I consider my new life day was September 1st 2017… so it could be said that I’ve been on the protocol for three years and eight months…am I walking again?.. No..
Am I nearly healed from this hideous life sucking disease?…No…
But….and this is a big But …
Thirteen months ago I had a fall, not so much as a fall but a collapse because of standing in the same position for several minutes and being stupidly and stubbornly trying to reach for something on the floor, my legs gave up first and I ended up in the most precarious of positions with my knees bent beneath me…the pain just collapsing and having my legs bent and twisted beneath me was excruciating as I’m sure you can imagine, but it gets worse because I was alone in my house, stuck like that, silently screaming in pain not for a few seconds or minutes but for one and a half hours…
Then after a carer arrived I was eventually able to have my legs straightened but had to stay on the floor for an additional four and a half hours before the paramedics arrived…
Taking this painful experience into consideration and that I’ve been stuck in bed since, which was the week before lockdown last year, I don’t think of myself as actively benefitting from the protocol as I would have been. I would have been able to exercise a lot more and walk with the aid of handrails etc…so it’s more like two and a half years but regardless of that I’m very optimistic about my future.
We all have problems, obstacles, road blocks and sometime justifiable reasons, well justifiable in our weakened mind that this is just too hard, but as I said at the start… it is damn hard but it does work…
So it all comes down to you…its not what I say or Janet says or Ann said…its You!!!
You have the facts… yes Facts not hearsay or supposition…fact..the bottom line is, if think think you can’t do this or if you believe you can do it…
You are right…

Because of that horrible fall last year it sort of put my healing via the amazing Ann Boroch Protocol on hold. I’ve stayed on the compliant foods obviously but I feel I’ve been knocked back both emotionally and physically. I am confident that I would have improved my leg strength and stability significantly based on my previous experience, so if it wasn’t for my determination….that could be thought of as me just being stubborn but I personally consider it in a positive way, if it wasn’t for “that” I’m sure I would have suffered massively from a mentally depressive point of view, but I’m a “deal with it” sort of guy…
In my view there’s no point in adopting the ” poor me attitude….
So apart from about 45 mins everyday I’ve been in bed since the week before lockdown in March…….Last year…
I’ve tried to do one form of exercise almost every day, my upper body strength is good and I’m quite pleased by the improvement in my core strength. Its my legs that are the main problem, after a long conversation with the knee surgeon it was mutually agreed that if I’ve not significantly improved by the end of May I’ll have a knee replacement.
The specific leg exercises I’m doing are really helping..less than a month ago I was able to stand 6 times repeatedly, I’m now doing 50 plus on a regular basis.. the last three were 51, 55, 51…
I personally believe that I’m getting so close to walking