My story, thinking of Michele...,

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Hi Folks,

there have been so many postings to this list lately -- and there's lots

of really great talk here, I have not been able to get to them probably for

the last week.

Thinking of Michele's msgs, I wanted to write some of my own story

perhaps as an illustration of things that happen in the body

To illustrate the concept that ---

its the terrain, not the pathogens that we need to take care of. Just as

If you have good healthy soil in your garden, with good bugs, lots of

aeration, minerals, it is most likely that your plants will grow strong and

healthy and that nasty bugs will be minimal. Bugs are there as nature's

cleansers. They are very attracted to unhealthy and dying plants to clean

them off. These kinds of plants give off an odor that attracts the bugs so

they can do their job as nature's cleansers.

The same is true within our bodies.

Today, natural health practitioners prefer --- when possible --- to

cleanse toxins and other " bad stuff " out of the body, then to put in the

good stuff. Kinda like doing an oil change. Clean out the old, dirty oil

before you put in the good clean oil. Or, just as you don't put makeup on

a dirty face. First, you wash it.

Sometimes you can't do this the way you'd like to because the body is too

frail to do the required cleansing.

Sometimes you give the body the good supplements it needs, but nothing

gets through. Because it may be blocked due to garbage in the cells that

does not allow proper nutrition to pass through, or the required enzyme to

break down / process / assimilate is weak or missing or insufficient.

I know of some practitioners who give -- their formula is --- 9 times

the recommended amount, in the hope that some of it gets through. Michele,

I imagine this is what could be going on with you. That you might be

taking good stuff, but it is not getting to where it needs to go. So you

may want to do what you can to prepare and make healthy the terrain. Just a

thought. or two.

It is probable that most of us could have healthier 'internal terrains'.....

MY STORY:

years ago, I would get a cold here and there. One year, I was set to go

on a 10 day skiing vacation, and the cold came on the day before I was

leaving. I left anyway. We would get up to be on the slopes at 9 a.m,

come back and warm up, have a nap, dinner and dance until the places closed

down and be in bed between 11 pm and 2 am, back up again. Pushing it too

hard, when one is not feeling well.

I could not keep it up, so had a good time at night, slept in the

daytime and went out partying again at night. not good. not smart. My

cold went into bronchitis.

Every year after that, I would get a cold that then developed into

bronchitis and the only way to get rid of it was with a prescription for

antibiotics.

About year 8, I had a good idea --- I thought --- went to the doctor and

said: " Doc, ok, I'll take this now, isn't there something we can do within

the next year to build me up again? These antibiotics are making me

nauseous, I'd almost rather have bronchitis! "

She said: " no, just come back again and I'll give you a prescription

next year. "

This was several years ago.

As I left, I had the idea that changed my life.

I realized that she was doing what she knew best, but what she knew was

not good enough for me. I had to find someone to help me build up my

health. That is when I decided to find a naturopath.

The naturopath gave me this lonnngggg questionnaire.

What she 'twigged' on was that as a teenager my doctor gave me

tetracycline for acne (it didn't really help). I took it for 2 years.

What this did was to kill much of the good bacteria in my gut which lessened

my resistance to " cold germs " .

She felt that chlorophyll would help me and thats when I started taking

Cell Tech's Blue Green Algae. I took it for 6 months.

After that, I never got bronchitis again. My colds became less and less

severe every year. I have always remembered the importance of chlorophyll,

of greens.

That is my story. Yours' is probably different. I'm including this

here to illustrate how this happens and how it is important to understand

how the body works, so we make the proper connections, when we can.

MMS is now an important part of my story, continuing to clear out the

debris so I can put in 'the good stuff'.

thank you, on this list, for being my teachers.

- Marilyn -