Just stopped back in to see if there were any immediate questions -
will try to answer them:
Gooner - yes - I believe an untreated brain injury could very well hinder recovery. I will try to look it up but a Dr Nemechek out in Arizona has published quite a bit on brain injury and less than traditional healing modalities - he was about to publish something new - not sure if it's come out yet. I imagine you will need to pursue some traditional physical therapy programs - i have a friend who slipped and fell on the ice this winter and got a concussion and is going through just about all the things i did and she is getting tons of PT / OT etc and insurance is of course covering it since a concussion is recognized as a medical issue - sadly - our situation is not
[...] - i debated addressing many of the things you asked about but the post was already so long. For anyone who knows me - they know i pretty much don't believe in modern medicine anymore after all i've witnessed in my 20 yr career - with the exception of hte developments going on in oncology - which is the only reason i remain in my career. My doubts began 12 yrs ago when my 12 year old niece was born entirely normal and thriving until she received her millionth vaccine and suddenly became SEVEVERLY autistic- she was not born that way - it took $100,000 in non traditional healing modalities and she is recovered 100% and thriving. Much of what recovered her was following Dr Amy Yasko's protocol - and an 18 month old has no ability to recover due to hte "placebo effect" - she went from being non verbal, non responsive, hitting herself in her stomach and banging her head against the wall back to a totally normal, thriving child.
As mentioned - there are no published scientific studies on vitamins - and most of my doctors will say they do nothing. I can only go off my own experience that i healed from several health crises using them where my labs were off the charts and then went back into the normal ranges without taking the "pills" the doctors wanted to use. Any doctor under the age of 50 has only learned "you see this symptom - you give this pill" - by own endocrinologist didn't know what hte HPA axis was...... the reason I know is because oncologists understand it far more than endocrinologists. In the end i found a functional medicine doc who is 74 - ex Navy trained MD - who has left traditional medicine and he said doctors his age all knew the dangers of valium and all understand how the body heals based on actual function - not in using pills..... one of my labs that went through the roof was IGF-1 during this - that was scary because when you read about high IGF-1 it can be from cancer - its most often caused by too much dairy or sugar but given i was consuming none - i knew that wasnt the cause - after enough research - i found that lycopene can reduce IGF-1. I started it - within a month my number dropped from 260 to 215 and another month later it was 160. i have another friend who also had high IGF-1 - she started on it and had the same results. After resuming Vitamin C my cortisol levels dropped dramatically . This is my own evidence - everyone can decide for themselves but given i had lab testing to show i was deficient - and major improvements occurred after going back on vitamins - that is all the evidence i need.
I reference the Secret and Power because they are easily accessible and understandable. Major oncology institutions like MD Anderson and Dana Farber recommend them. They are an easy read . I had some hesitation because the books basically say we are all responsible for our current situation and that could upset people - it also says - shit happens - and its how you respond to it that matters..... either way - reading them changed my life - perhaps because i read far too much heavy science all day long - something simple appealed to me
As for the german joke - i've heard the same one and there is a different answer to it - "zero - because it was engineered so efficiently it will last forever" ...... my parents were both born and raised in germany and i have many german friends and we all get a good laugh over our toughness , rigidity, etc, we have a sense of humor about it- we all say its the source of our success and failures.....
Thank you for taking the time to respond to those points. Your persuasive for sure. Urgh, I fear I am losing my faith in modern medicine with this whole experience being the final straw. I began drifting away a few years go from the certainty mind-set of modern medicine and the more I live and learn the more uncertain I have become. Now all I can see is a cultural arrogance emanating from those who dismiss anything outside of modern medicine. There is a rejection of the 'transcendent' or that which we should be humbled by in our ignorance. That instinct in the medical community to reject the unknown with certainty seems to me something closer to ideology than reason nowadays. I have argued at length with colleagues that there is no room for the exploration of these domains in medicine and we in the 'establishment' so-to-speak suck the oxygen out of the room when patients and colleagues explore them. therefore, there is no room for open minded people to rightfully seek answers to questions that plague us all by utilizing the vast infrastructure of modern medicine, which is their right. Carl Jung's explorations of transcendental experiences and their uses in health (Alcoholics Anonymous) was the first time I noticed that modern medicine has distinct boundaries or rather barriers and 'others' these sorts of things under the complimentary/alternative medicine category. So it becomes a 'no mans land' where we don't go. They then repeat over and over that all things that have merit become medicine and all things without stay alternative. Its kind of preachy actually. That was a 'road to Damascus' kind of moment for me.
I think I will try these vitamins for a while and see for myself. Ill read those books too.
Also I appreciate you sharing your anecdotes given how personal they are. They gave a lot of food for thought.
On the lighter note, I'm stealing that joke for work. We have a few German doctors who I like telling jokes to and then watching them say without smiling or laughing "hmm, thats funny, I like it". Cracks me up every-time. They, like you and your family do have a decent sense of humor, its just a bit deeper.
Oh and kudos to you for being brave enough to check your bloods regularly and experiment so much through this all and then share the results. My health anxiety is far too out of control to go looking for cancer markers like IGF-1.
Last thing, do you have any recommendation for resources; websites, you tube channels etc of people who recommend meals and foods that are not on that list. It seems like a lot of cross referencing to do before meal preps. Im short on time at the moment so any resource that provides meal plans with no neuro-excitatory foods would be an awesome short cut.
