I stared my own death in the face when I was still a teenager. On a sunny afternoon in Puerto Rico, right after English class, an army doctor told my father, and inadvertently me, that I had inherited a terminal blood disorder. While birds sang at the open window, he told us I had five years to live. Probably less.
What does a person do while they’re waiting to die? For many, I imagine, their minds drift away from details that seemed vital yesterday but maybe no longer seduce their emotions. And so many personal connections they had thought of no consequence loom suddenly with profound meaning. I never got a chance to experience this soul searching, because my father reacted explosively to the doctor giving the news while I was in the room. His reaction, so quick on the heels of the ugly pronouncement, pushed to the back of my mind what I’d just heard. It probably wasn’t that hard. What 16-year-old doesn’t think she’s going to live forever?
In the big Buick on the way home, with the Atlantic ocean roaring just steps from the road, my father explained why the doctor was wrong. I listened and I believed him, for two reasons: He was the smartest person I knew, then and now; and he used a phrase very familiar to me. He said, “We can fix this.” My family made a living buying and renovating houses, selling some renting others. I was used to looking at completely gutted structures and returning weeks later to see lovely cottages. The idea of “fixing” me seemed plausible.
The first disease I vanquished was my own, sickle cell syndrome. Over time, and with much experimentation, I discovered that all disease and every disorder can be treated, healed, controlled, and essentially cured with nutrition, when taken in appropriate amounts. No matter the issue, from cancer to chronic body odor, nutrition through food supplements can prevent and stop it.
I have already shared some of what I know in Vitamin Remedies That Really Work! (Volume 1). In this blog, I will share new discoveries and update a few remedies from the book. In addition to nutritional remedies, I will blog about current health matters, and give you tips on sculpting exercises. No matter your weight, these exercises will make you look thinner and toned.
My goal is to help people live the lives they were meant to, unhampered by unnecessary illness. And I will show you that most illness is unnecessary. According to Time magazine, January 10, 2011, “Some 75 percent of U.S. health care costs stems from chronic diseases, many of which can be prevented by lifestyle choices.” (p. 60.) Actually, they can all be prevented, with food supplements. I’m not saying that you should use food supplements as a replacement for good food and a varied diet. I’m saying that food alone can’t do the job of keeping you healthy throughout your whole life, that you have to add food supplements to ensure that.
I hope to teach you a different way of looking at your body. Personally, I let my body intimidate me. I treat it the way most parents treat their children. A parent will often ignore their own body‘s signals of distress, but will run in a flash to an ER if one of the kiddies complains. You are your body’s parent. You have to pay attention to its needs, because your body is all that stands between you and oblivion. You are nothing without it, only a memory for those you leave behind.
Whatever you do, don’t listen to the morons who tell you that you can get all your nutrition from food, and not to use supplements. Their ignorance goes too deep for me to address here. But think about it. If that were true, why do so many well-fed people depart this earth wasting away from one disease or another? If you could get all you need from food to stay healthy, the well-fed would not die with disease. There would be practically no cancer, or arthritis, asthma, or Alzheimer’s. Since those ailments and others exist in such large numbers, they are profound proof that we are not getting enough nutrition from our food! Food supplements can prevent and heal all conditions. In other words, there is no condition that food supplements in the correct amount cannot improve.
I have seen many people live apparently healthy lifestyles, exercise and eat well, but shun supplements, except maybe a multiple vitamin, and of course, some vitamin C when they have a cold. Seemingly healthy all their lives, suddenly their doctor reports that they have colon or prostate cancer, or onset Parkinson’s or Multiple Sclerosis, or they experience a sudden heart attack or stroke, because their starving bodies are starting to crash.
One poignant example of this, which has stuck in my mind since her needless death in 1998 from breast cancer, is Lady Linda Eastman McCartney. I read that this beautiful woman was a saint in taking care of her health, grew her own vegetables, was vegan. She tried to do everything right and still got stunned by cancer. That’s because the world we live in presents us with too many stressors to remain healthy throughout our lives, without enough additional nutrition provided by food supplements. I don’t care how careful you are with your fat-free, gluten-free, egg-white eating habits, how organic your food, how balanced your meals. Without also expanding your diet to include the correct food supplements, the odds are against your remaining disease free throughout your life.
And if you can get everything you need from your food intake, why do doctors still recommend vitamins to pregnant women, children, the elderly, and other stressed groups? I mean, aren’t we all a little stressed nowadays? If supplements can help them, why wouldn’t they help the rest of us? In fact, a failure to take sufficient food supplements permits disease to run rampant, and drives us into early graves. Yes, I say unequivocally that most people age way too fast and die before their time, precisely because they don’t take the correct food supplements, or they don’t take enough.
When you see the large doses recommended here, say, for fighting cancer, hair loss, or multiple sclerosis, please don’t freak out. You have to stop thinking of a vitamin as a “pill,” which has a medicinal connotation. No one wants to take a lot of “pills.” But food supplements are not pills. Start thinking of food supplements as what they are, concentrated “nutrition” that won’t hurt you. But in order for a supplement to work in many cases, you have to take enough to flood the blood stream and saturate soft tissue, and then maintain those levels for an extended period. These large doses are “therapeutic,” and are necessary at these levels for the success of the supplement therapy. After you get your condition under control, you can decrease to a lower daily “maintenance” dose. But in order to continue to control your condition you will have to take food supplements every day, much the same way you expect to have to eat every day.
Before you dismiss my claims in this blog, I want you to think of one thing, make it a mantra, even. “What if she’s right, and I don’t pay attention?”
Hi I’m very supportive of this kind of work, but the flu page needs some work. Colds are generally caused by viruses, and the flu virus is not alive and does not breed — a virus is just a packet of protein, bad genetic code that floats around infecting biological systems and mutating into new forms.
That said, the lysine advice is quite sound and even cutting-edge. Dcotors seem very poorly informed on lysine, C, and anything else they don’t hear about from ex-models working as pharma reps.
Have a great day!
Hi Dave
I think the confusion caused by this particular post you question is because I often use analogy and metaphor to explain and simplify things for a lay audience. But you can imagine that a virus has life because of the way it acts when it enters a cell, causing the cell to reproduce its DNA or RNA in order to manufacture more viral protein based on the new instructions. That is a form of reproduction in its broadest sense. These behaviors are what cause many to see viruses as alive or at least existing at the border between chemistry and life. A grey area spectrum may exist between what is certainly alive and what is not.
At any rate, my experience with thousands has shown that L-lysine will stop a virus from replicating, or “growing” if you like that better. And it has worked on every virus, including all flu viruses, herpes, cold sores, etc. And it works so fast! What’s interesting is that L-lysine doesn’t work well with colds. For colds I use beta carotene, royal jelly, and vitamin c.
But L-lysine works so well with every virus, that I’m thinking it is a way to protect oneself against the Ebola virus, and I have upped my dosage in the face of the recent breakout. There is no reason to believe that it would not work as well there.
I couldn’t agree more with you that doctors are like automatons waiting for the cutie pie pharm reps to tell them what to prescribe next. And there will always be a “next” because what they prescribe today, will be taken off the market tomorrow after it dameges the health of those taking it.
Thanks for writing, Lynn.
God promises: Only goodness and mercy will follow you.
Thank you James. That’s a wonderful thought.
Lynn
Dear Lynn, I am going through some family history information to find a picture of my great…grandfather who my father said fought at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. As I looked at all the family stuff I came across a notice that you sent to me several years ago about your book “Both Times In Blood”. I then googled you and saw your most interesting and informative You Tube. It has given me encouragement and hope as I begin to prepare for a second knee operation and continue to search for a remedy for swollen ankles! I trust the many years lost will be rekindled. Thank you for you care for others.
Your cousin from Princeton, Shirley
Hello, Dear Cousin Shirley,
It is so nice to hear from you. Believe it or not, I just came upon a cache of comments that I was never notified about. Over 100. I am slowly slogging through them.
My left knee is bad with osteoarthritis, but I use Monavie Active, which builds a small cushion between the bones. If I take it everyday I’m alright. I hope your second surgery was successful. Exactly what is wrong with your knee?
For swollen ankles, you need something that will balance your water ratios inside your body. Try “Absorbable Calcium, with Magnesium and Vitamin D3.” Puritan’s Pride Item #53580. Take two with breakfast and three with dinner.
If you want to communicate directly with me and I wish you would, my new email is lynncapehart@gmail.com. How is your family history going?
Take care, and thanks for writing, Lynn
Lynn,
What amazing content you have provided here. Your story and the quote “We’ll fix this” gives me goose bumps. I saw the blog on ED since I was suffering a mild case of it. I have been taking the lecithin granules, rutin and gingko per your dosage and I see a difference in 2 days. If it worked that fast, does it mean that my blockage was minimal or just that my body responds well to proper nutrition?
Also, any supplements to improve eyesight? I am mid 40s and don’t wear glasses but I know my vision isn’t as good as it used to be. Trying to avoid glasses since it makes the eye muscles weak so any magic formula in your world that can help?
Thanks again.
Thank you, John.
My father made me who I am today. And he was right back then when he said we could “fix it,” because we did.
Your response probably shows that your blockage was minimal. But this is tricky. Everyone’s body responds well to nutrition. Every man’s body will respond to Lecithin if the ED is caused by a blockage, and if enough is taken. If you have a blockage, you have Simple Malnutrition, a deficiency, which the nutrient Lecithin corrects by emulsifing and removing the blockage.
Consider this, however: Blood pressure is also caused by a blockage which Lecithin corrects, because as the arteries become more and more blocked with organic debris, the heart has to pump harder and harder to get the same amount of blood through a diminishing sized channel. The blood pressure is high because the heart is having to work harder.
I know people with terrifically high blood pressure, like 180/120, who will get normal 118/78 readings on any day that they take Lecithin, only to have it shoot high again on the days they don’t. In that blockage the case isn’t minimal and yet it reacts immediately to Lecithin. Many men with ED for years will get a spontaneous erection the same day they use Lecithin, only to be unable to achieve one on the days that they don’t take it. Does that mean the case is minimal? One comment writer here says that he has to stop taking Lecithin on some days because it gives him too much sexual appetite and his girlfriend can’t handle it.
Just be happy that it’s working. 🙂
Regarding your eyesight. I needed new lower strength glasses after drinking Monavie Active for 6 months. I traced it to the Bilberry juice it contains, and started taking in addition to Monavie for my eyes, Bilbery, Puritan’s Pride #3451, two capsules twice daily, and Herbavision, Puritan’s Pride #4755, two softgels twice daily. About a month later I noticed that some circular moving sparks that happened a couple of times a day had stopped. I learned later that the circular sparking indicated my retina trying to detach.
Thanks for writing, Lynn.
Thank you for your book. I randomly found it at a thrift store. Took awhile to open and read it. I try to always find what makes me feel better in every way, but still having issues I can’t fix with food. But, your book has helped fix a plugged throbbing ear that I got a year ago, with the Beta Carotene. I am also including lecithin, rutin, and I can tell they help! I have also helped others too, which is very exciting!
Hi there,
Glad you’re liking the book and it’s helping you. But remember, there is no health problem that nutrition cannot heal. You just have to find the right combination and dosage.
Thanks for writing, Lynn
Hi Lynn,
I read your personal story and a few of your postings. I also forwarded it to about 20 of my best friends with a note about your blog. I suspect a number of them will take the time to at least read some of your blog. I enjoyed the bit that I read. I’ll read more later. Thanks for coming over today. T.
Hey T,
Thanks a lot for forwarding my blog link to your very large circle of friends. I wondered why my traffice went so high today. Thanks for helping me make this month’s goal in traffic. See you later. Lynn.