We have forgotten we have the ability to heal ourselves. Part 2

Can you recover from Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Arthritis, Acne, and many other medical conditions, and ... without Medication, is that possible?

Part 2 - The Change of Diet. A Drastic One

After 3 months of drastic change of food intake, blood test result showed no inflammation, the UC doc said, you must continue your medication ... Another 4 months went by, blood test result still showed no inflammation, the UC doc repeated, you must continue your medication...

I asked the doc, "Is he going to take medication forever?" "Yes".... I am not against medication but not forever! Besides, insurance coverage only last 60days after hospital discharge, you have to buy the medicine yourself thereafter. Doc: Blood Test is not accurate. I requested: "Let's do a colonoscopy to confirm".

Doc: Congratulations! You have recovered ..." I: Doc, I would like to apologize first, but he did not take any medication for the past 8 months..." "What medication did the other doctors gave then?" (referring to the other doctors from another hospital during the viral infection episode). "Nothing." Silence. "What did you give him?" "Nothing. I just changed his diet."

It was an accidental discovery. Tested and proven, many times after few episodes of relapse thus far. Nobody believed me when I began my journey 4 years ago, not even my spouse. I called it "Removal Diet." You remove food or ingredients that can cause inflammation & harm your gut, so that your body has the time and pace to heal itself.

It's not easy in the beginning, searching for alternative ingredients, what was thought to be healthy is no longer true. You need discipline & commitment, someone has to prepare to cook, 100% at home, and bring meal/lunchbox to work. Forget about eating out because almost 99% restaurant out there do not serve the food that meet the criteria. I have not found the 1% yet so far.

 

Your Poop Is Your Trophy

Your Wellbeing is not other people's business

Their business is to make food tasty or very tasty.

Great taste drives customer loyalty, and profit.

And it ended there, your taste bud.

What happen after you swallow is none of their business.

To the food entrepreneurs out there, are you ready to be different?

continue onto Part 3 - Before & After ...

We have forgotten we have the ability to heal ourselves. Part 1

  

Can you recover from Ulcerative Colitis (UC), Arthritis, Acne, and many other medical conditions, and ... without Medication, is that possible?

Part 1 - The Insurance

Disclaimer

I am not a medical doctor, I am not a beauty salon beautician, I am not a pharmacist.

Once upon a time

I was just a desperate homemaker, frustrated of seeing my dining table full of many types of medicines, the medicine becomes part of the daily food, 2 to 3 times a day, for my spouse.

Concern start to set in when the relapse become more frequent as a patient age, and the insurance limit is heading to zero. It did not help when the insurer rejected application of upgrade of old existing insurance plan to unlimited annual and lifetime limit. Back then when we first bought insurance 2 decades ago, unlimited medical plan was non-existence.

And to rub salt into the wound, stronger & more expensive medication or treatment are recommended, whenever there was a relapse. "There is a new treatment, but still on trial version, RM75000 (>USD17K / >SGD22K) for an injection, but you have to enquire at government hospital." That was the last straw that breaks the camel's back. That was the beginning of my long journey to find an alternative solution, and eventually lead to what this blog post is about, so that for those who have similar experience, frustration, despair, whatever it is, wherever you are, hopefully my sharing will bring you some hope.

Are you adequately covered?

Let's talk about getting or upgrading insurance plan while you still qualify.

Get a basic medical plan when you are still young & healthy, or if not young but at least still healthy. "Healthy" is defined as have not been admitted to a hospital before, i.e., have not been hospitalized due to an illness. If you have an existing medical plan, do upgrade accordingly when you still can.

You can never beat the rising medical cost, which is an unknown figure. If you are self insured, you are in control of the insurance premium you are committed to, year after year. Self insured means not depending on company group insurance as there is limit & you are not covered in between change of job. If you are still attached to family plan, you need to get your own individual private insurance plan asap regardless how young you are, you may not be eligible due to medical history along the way before you reach the age limit of the plan. 

Make sure your medical insurance plan do NOT exclude infectious disease. Many, unfortunately, were caught off guard during Covid 19 pandemic, their costly hospitalisation bills due to Covid were not claimable due to this exclusion. Some were lucky as there was temporary Covid 19 hospitalisation Fund, but it was limited claim & first come first served basis. What about future infectious disease? Read the fine print of your policy. Change insurer if need to.

I speak from experience as a customer who were misguided by irresponsible insurance agent, thereafter sat for exam to qualify as insurance agent (ex-agent, oops, selling insurance is not my strength ...)

Nobody want to talk about shit. Let's talk about shit. If you have blood in stool, that is a red flag. Be warned, the red flag, very likely will be brushed off by a doctor as hemorrhoids, in the beginning.  That was what happened to my spouse more than a decade ago. The doctor then (GP) said, "You are having piles." "Take this medicine if you have constipation, and take the other one if you have diarrhea."

"It is just a hemorrhoid/piles". Sounds familiar? I hear and read about this happening to many very often nowadays. I believe many medical conditions such as IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which include Crohn & UC), Colon Cancer, etc went undetected in the early stages due to misdiagnosis. That explained why in recent years, there have been many cases of colorectal or colon cancer detected at later stages, whether you are in US, China, Asia, etc.

Eventually, we visited a specialist at a hospital. After a costly colonoscopy but fortunately covered by Medical Insurance but unfortunately with limit, the diagnosis - UC. That was more than a decade ago since the first diagnosis. Relapse becomes a norm, a dread, and nightmares.

You are covered, but don't depend on it.

continue onto Part 2 - The Change of Diet ...

Plant Your Own Color Green

Plant your own colour Green. Even if it is more than 200 feet above ground.

     

Highrise Balcony Garden. Nothing is impossible.

 

Plant Your Own Colour Blue

Blue from Blue Pea Flower

Plant your own color, in a pot at balcony, more than 200 feet above ground.

Nothing is impossible. 

The Internet is like the fisherman's net

Like the fisherman's net, the internet is woven and twisted. When you are surfing the internet, you are just a fish swimming in a net.

How to be the fish that got away? When you come across a product online that promises miracle, money back guarantee, etc, take your time, be curious, surf and seek more information online. Delay your buying decision even if the offer will end in 10 minutes... they are desperate, not you.

Recently, a product called 'ArthroNeo' has popped up in many ad space. It promises to cure/get rid of arthritis and osteochondrosis in a month. A testimonial from a fella named Axel Finch from London who used to work in Krompachy telling his story of how ArthroNeo has cured him. In the story, there are other 'supporting characters', from Igor to Rodrigo. Then, there are the positive comments and feedback at the bottom of the page.

So, what is so fishy about this advert or this product?

Probing further with the keyword 'ArthroNeo', a few other sites appeared. The storyline and photos/images are the same, but the characters' names are different.

Spot the Difference and judge yourself:

 

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Umar must be Axel's clone living in different country.

 

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Or, Umar from Malaysia must be the evil twin of Axel Finch, from London. Both are 62 years old... one worked in Krompachy, a town in Slovakia, the other worked in Miri, a city in Sarawak, Malaysia.

 

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Axel seems to be the stronger of the clones/twins. He rode a bike for 23 hours nonstop. Umar managed only 2 to 3 hours.

Even the wife and the grandson had been cloned... swimming in the same water...

Then, there're the positive comments and feedback at the bottom of the page. Dolly the sheep was the first clone in 1996. 21 years later, we are seeing human clones having same joint pain as their Origs.....their original....

 

 

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Many people love to upload their selfies and photos online. Once uploaded on the net, their faces are officially reusable material by all earthlings, sane or insane, good or bad. Are these people aware that their photos are being stolen and abused?

Don't be caught in the scammers' net!

Why On Earth Should You Feel You Are Alone

You may have some cousins out there, no, I don't mean in China, India, Indonesia, Russia or Japan.

But you will not have the chance to meet your long distance cousins in this lifetime, as the latest Earth-like planet discovered is 600 light-years away. And just One light-year is equal to: exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (about 9.5 Petametre) or about 5,878,625,373,183.608 miles (about 6 trillion miles).

The Kepler (Mission to search for habitable planets) mission's science team announced its latest finding at a press conference on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, The team announced the confirmation of Kepler-22b, its first planet found in the "The Goldilocks Zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.

The Goldilocks Zone

No, they didn't find Goldilocks or any Bears. The "Goldilocks Zone" is based on the story "Goldilocks and The Three Bears", in which a little girl chooses from sets of three items, ignoring the ones that are too extreme (large or small, hot or cold, etc.), and settling on the one in the middle, which is "just right". Likewise, a planet following this Goldilocks Principle is one that is neither too close nor too far from a star to rule out liquid water on its surface.

As the scientists continue their hunt & missions, we have to continue living, ....down-to-earth.

All About Kepler:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/main/index.html

The press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5OObU0ryU

Hidden Signs, Crouching Heart Attack

Who said you have to wait till you are sick to learn TaiChi?
Why do you have to be old to learn TaiChi?

Case 1 – A very busy, young and successful journalist, he travelled often around the world. He worked hard and late. Slightly overweight, doctor advised him to lose weight. He went to the gym daily and soon lost some weight and looked as fit as an athlete. A few months later, while walking to his car after dinner, he collapsed. His young family, colleagues and friends could not understand why, he was only 35.

Case 2 – He’s full of life. A businessman, his wife’s in her early 30s, they have 2 very young children. Hobbies - playing badminton with his friends after work or on the weekend. He had worked very hard. His business was doing well. That Saturday, the family had invited relatives and friends to a house warming party at their new bungalow. The day was still young, he went to play few hours of badminton with some friends. It was early evening, he arrived home and as he alighted from his car. he could see many people were already in the house. Before he could reach the main door, he collapsed. The house warming party had turned into a funeral instead. He was only 35.

Case 3 – His wife and his very young kids were living in Malaysia. A very busy project manager, he was based in a middle eastern country most of the time. Entertainment was part and parcel of the job. He’s a heavy smoker, alcohol was cheaper than water and a daily drink. To keep up with his mistress from China who’s in her 20s, blue tablets became another add-ons in his life. In this desert where it was hot most time of the year, playing badminton indoor with his buddies regularly seemed to be a good choice. That evening, he’d played badminton as usual, after dinner, he went to sleep. He never woke up. He was only in his early 40s. He complained of some discomfort around his chest and stomach area to his buddies one month before and was advised to see a doctor. Nobody knew whether he’d visited any doctor.

Case 4 – A close buddy of the busy project manager (Case 3), they had the same lifestyle. Cigarette, alcohol, karaoke, the blue tablets were the norm. Mistresses were their dark secrets. Regular badminton provided a sense of health safety net. One and a half year after the demise of his buddy, he collapsed while taking a shower in the bathroom. He was only 45.

All of them had had heart attack. They were real people, these are true stories.

Heart health

Some people over 35 may already have the early stages of cardiovascular disease without even realizing it. When it comes to symptoms, most people think of chest pain in the left shoulder or arm. Unfortunately, 25 percent of all heart attacks happen “silently,” without clear or obvious signs. Common symptoms may be so mild or vague as to seem unrelated to the heart.

Some adults, especially those approaching middle age, are basically sitting ducks when it comes to heart disease and attacks. With the proper knowledge of warning signs and potential symptoms, regular check up and lifestyle change, it can be prevented, reversed, or even cured.

For Case 3 & 4, I’d not comment further on the additional lifestyle which obviously had contributed to the health problem, but I could not help but to point out that 3 of them had played badminton regularly or prior to the heart attack. For the young journalist, he signed up for gym & weight training prior to his passing.

Badminton or gym is good, but considered as vigorous sports/exercise. Perhaps vigorous exercise is not meant for everyone. How much is too much? When we do not know the existing condition of our health, or we do not know our fitness level, or when we are not in the best of our health, or when we are not getting any younger, perhaps we should seek alternative sports, which is less strenuous, and non-vigorous.

It is not a shame to be seen walking instead of jogging. It’s not a shame to be doing TaiChi instead of KungFu. 99% of people would usually say, “TaiChi? Not for me, it’s for old people!”…”Wait till I’m 65 years old, I’ll do TaiChi!".....Well, 1% of the younger people who did not think so are the early birds, and early bird catches worms.

A TaiChi Master said,
"I'll not teach you TaiChi if you've become too old to start as you cannot remember anything..."