Rather Be Healthy

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

Over the years since my original diagnosis in February 2004 I, like many others I’m sure have done masses of research on the Internet and reading books specifically on the subject of the disease I was told was now dominating and controlling the trillions of cells in my body.. the general perception of every traditionally trained medical professional is that the disease is incurable.
For the initial few months of research I was always getting the same response from the so called experts, I struggled to maintain a positive attitude, the people “in the know” all wanted to make the sufferer strong and to just accept the prognosis given to everyone that had been told they had multiple sclerosis.
In all honesty I know they themselves actually believed that MS is incurable… yes it is… if…. if you accept that MS is a disease….but if you have stepped out of the traditional, restricted box that western medicine lives in, then its very obvious and plain to see that their limited view isn’t true…
When someone is diagnosed with this disease it wasn’t done by seeing specific markers that wave flags and shout…” hey look at me…. I’m the MS bug”… no, they tell you that you have an incurable disease because they don’t have a pharmaceutical drug to fix it…..why is that I wonder? ..
It’s because various organs in the body have been negatively effected and prevented from doing the job they were designed to to, this has happened primarily by foods and drinks and other ingested things..such as drug use.
So when a neurologist tests you and can see damage to the brain, poor eyesight, contaminated blood, organs incapable of performing basic tasks and severe muscle
atrophy. They group them all together and call it MS…
They prescribe drugs to address individual issues, but never genuinely attempting to rectify the root cause….
But what some of us now know is that an amazing woman who had been diagnosed with this “so called incurable disease ” actually healed…. yes Healed herself by eliminating the offensive causes.
Her therapy is called the Ann Boroch Protocol and has been successfully followed by thousands.
The number of people that currently have MS in the world is roughly 2.3 million…
As I’ve said, those figures and the prognosis from “experts”.. hah!!!
would be quite depressing… but we know differently and have a completely different mindset..
Why?
Because we just know about the ABP…

Looking back on my 65 years of being alive I think that I’ve done okay considering…
Being born in Liverpool in 1955 wasn’t easy… I was the third of seven who during that time lived in a two bedroom house with no bathroom.
The toilet was in the 15 by 12 foot backyard… basically three single skin walls and a door surrounding a toilet and pull chain cistern that froze in winter.. Needless to say it wasn’t used after 7.00 p.m. when it was cold…anyway…
After leaving regular school at 15 yrs old I joined the army and attended the Army Apprentice College in Chepstow South Wales where I took my degree in Building Construction and Building Science, I also qualified for my City and Guilds in Carpentry and Joinery then became a Combat Engineer in the Royal Engineers..
After leaving the army I had my own business doing Small works in Cambridge.
I worked in sales and sales management initially in photo copiers then the I.T. industry for almost 40 years.
I took and passed my car driving licence, then my motorcycle licence.
I took my Heavy goods class 3, then Hgv class 2 and Hgv class 1..
Many years later I passed my Private pilots licence…a PPL..in 43 hours, the national average in the USA is 75 hrs..
I trained for my helicopter licence but ran out of money.
I qualified for my glider pilots licence as well.
I lived almost eleven years in the beautiful state of colorado and was the Client Service Director for the world leading authority in biological dentistry and body chemistry rebalancing.
So I’ve done a bit, but my achievements so far will all pale into insignificance because, in 2004 I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, what the world of medicine consider to be an incurable disease but I’m well on the way to changing that..
I’m following the Ann Boroch Protocol and am confident the disease will be forced out of my body, which is great because I’ve lots more to do…

Since having the fall that completely messed up my knees, actually the damage and problems it caused deserve a far more descriptive word than “messed” up but this isn’t the place to use it. Anyway that happened thirteen months ago which basically means that apart from a 45 to 60 minute bathroom break each day I’ve been in bed for over a year…
I know there are many others who’ve been confined for longer but I’m describing my own personal situation.
Looking back to March 2020 I really didn’t think I’d be laid up for so long so I’ve drawn deeply on my personal resolve to stay active in my mind by reading, researching and quizzing as much as possible.
The physical negative effects of being bedridden have meant using several different ointments and eventually finding one that’s more effective than the industry standard of Cavilon…
Another seriously negative aspect has been muscle atrophy in my thighs, the damage done to the meniscus in my right knee has limited any constructive movement.
It’s very much a catch22 situation, the muscle takes up the slack when the knee is damaged but being bedbound has meant the thigh muscle is neither use nor ornament at this time…. oh bugger it looks like my backside and my bed are going to be close companions for a long time…
Or are they?
I bought one of those small pedal machines and although I used it for a couple of weeks there didn’t appear to be any improvement. So I came up with another plan… while sitting on my bed, my carers moved the commode so the back was facing me then they put some weight on the arms. I then stood up holding the back of the commode, the fist time I was able to do six before my legs were exhausted.
Now this is why I’m excited, each day I’ve pushed myself to do more.
The progress has been like this:
Day 1……… 6
Day 2……… 8
Day 3……… 10
Day 4……… rest
Day 5………16
Day 6………20
Day 7………25
Day 8………26
Day 9………30
Yesterday was day 10…
I did 15 without stopping, then a one minute rest then 10 more then one minute rest and 10 more, so 35 in total is brilliant. If I can continue with the same progress I honestly believe…

I’m so close to walking again..

But it’s….
Over the past fifteen years or more I’ve always considered myself to have a Hummingbird bladder, that’s because it seemed I only had to look at liquids and need to pee…. very frustrating and inconvenient.
Even before the symptoms of MS had restricted me from working fulltime I always had to consider where the toilets were.
Just driving any distance that would require me to be in a car needed planning…I’ll not get into specifics of how I addressed that problem but I’m sure you can imagine how.
Anyway…. over the years I’ve talked to doctors and various specialists who have all made suggestions, plus hours and hours of personal research have had me trying pharmaceuticals…. which I hated to do but I’ve tried. I think I also tried many combinations of natural supplements but nothing genuinely worked.
At one point I just reduced my fluid intake which is primarily water down to two litres per day..not good.
The need to drink water and absorb electrolytes is especially important to the Ann Boroch Protocol which I painstakingly follow.
The protocol is strict but the fact is that it works, so dairy, sugar, gluten and various other foods are restricted…
Why do I mention this? Well about two months ago I came across some research regarding UTI’s which I’d never considered, nor had any previous consultant, it seemed that I just had a weak bladder
I came across d-mannose, I know, I know its a sugar, there are many research documents in Wikipedia explaining the indepth specifics…far too detailed for me and my limited grey matter…
Basically having an “ose” at the end indicates its a sugar and must be avoided like the plague when following the ABP, but, and I’m saying this not to recommend it to anyone because Ann Boroch knew much,much more about the protocol than me.. taking d-mannose isn’t recommended nor am I suggesting it if you have a Uti, but it’s working for me