Dr. Mercola's Comments: Amy Pearlman’s story is a dramatic testimony to how you can turn your health completely around if you are really committed to it. As she says in the story, it isn’t always easy but the incredible changes she experienced were invaluable. Here at the Optimal Wellness Center we do not offer you a "quick fix" to superficially cover up your symptoms. Instead, we teach you how to restore and revitalize your body so your health problems are tackled at the root and you are able to regain your health, and in some cases even reverse disease. But the program does take some effort on your part, and a strong commitment to give yourself the health you deserve. You will likely end up finding, as many of our patients have, that your nutrition and lifestyle changes are affecting unexpected aspects of your life--from increased energy, to better sleep, to a brighter mood--and even as your health returns you won’t want to go back to your old ways--you will likely feel that good! As you read through the story below, allow yourself to feel inspired by this woman’s health accomplishments. And then, if you are interested in finding out more about the Optimal Wellness Center, take our New Patient Tour to find out how you too can reach higher levels of health. Contributed by Amy Pearlman Lincolnshire, IL At age 29, I thought I might die. After visiting over 30 different medical doctors for treatment of an endless list of health problems that "traditional" medicine simply did not cure, I felt I could not handle any more illness. Just some of my health problems included: Fibromyalgia Chronic fatigue syndrome Repeated bacterial infections Severe asthma A tumor on my head Thyroid disease Recurrent bouts with the flu A skin cancer on my shoulder Hypothyroid Depression Severe joint pain Rheumatologist, gastrointestinologist, otolarynologist, dermatologist, gynecologist and so on, much like a game of basketball, my "traditional" doctors would treat their one assigned area of the body and bounce me on to another "-ologist" to treat a different illness. And yet, nobody could put the pieces together and figure out that something systemic was slowly killing me. ‘At the Rate I Was Going, I Feared I Might Not See my 30th Birthday’ Perhaps there was a doctor who could treat the whole person instead of the parts; after all, the saying goes "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," so why not treat it that way? I never considered holistic, natural medicine until I realized that at the rate I was going, I might not see my 30th birthday. I slept 12 hours a day during the week and 14 to 16 hours a day on weekends. Each day I grew sicker, more infections more complications. This was my life from 1999 until my wonderful husband convinced me to see Dr. Mercola at the Optimal Wellness Center in 2002. At age 29, "traditional" medicine had me on a strong cocktail of prescription medications including: Over five potent steroids for asthma Daily antibiotics to prevent recurrent infections Two different antidepressants An anti-anxiety pill A muscle relaxer A sleeping pill And a laundry list of prescriptions used to mask my symptoms rather than treat the underlying problems These poisonous cocktails only made my conditions worse as I now know from Dr. Mercola, abuse of antibiotics can cause serious medical problems including fungus overgrowth (which I battle), while overuse of steroids cause adrenal/cortical imbalances and bone density problems (which I now battle). "Traditional" medical treatments may have done more harm than good for me. For about three months prior to my first visit at the Optimal Wellness Center, my husband had been following Dr. Mercola's nutrition plan, seeing the therapists at the clinic for NST, EFT, cranial osteopathy and allergy testing, and meeting other patients who had overcome severe illnesses like cancer and fibromyalgia. He was able to cure his leaky gut syndrome after starting Dr. Mercola's nutrition plan, juicing and taking digestive enzymes. Out of desperation I made my first visit and today I wish I had done it sooner. ‘I Did Everything That the Optimal Wellness Center Offered’ You can imagine my surprise when as a vegetarian Dr. Mercola informed me that I was a protein metabolic type and should eat meat. I fought this at first but as I grew sicker, I decided to give it a try. I felt better almost immediately with the new diet and have followed it ever since. Still, I wanted faster relief for my medical problems so I did everything that the Optimal Wellness Center offered in my commitment to get well including: Bi-monthly EFT and NST Daily juicing Eating right for my metabolic type Taking digestive enzymes with EVERY meal (very important for my leaky gut and very helpful) Taking probiotics (very important for my fungus and very helpful) Removing my mercury fillings Monthly cranial-osteopathy Allergy testing (could not believe all the things I was allergic to) Essential oil therapy Salt baths Infrared sauna sessions Vitamin C IVs Heavy metal detoxification Vitamin supplementation I will not tell you that this routine is easy. It takes a significant investment of time, will and dedication, but the payoffs are huge and the health benefits invaluable. And, the Optimal Wellness Center provides a support system of coaches to help along the way as I strive to regain my health. A Difficult Decision The team at the Optimal Wellness Center including Jody, my EFT therapist, helped me to make a very difficult decision to have my saline breast implants removed in November 2003. Dr. Mercola and the team there have seen severe health complications with the use of these devices and convinced me that my health would improve significantly as well as more rapidly without the toxic silicone shell and tainted saline typical of breast implants. This was very scary for me but Jody, Dr. Mercola, Dr. Garcia, Wendy and Lena were there by my side throughout the entire ordeal. They were instrumental in helping me cope with both the physical and the emotional aspects of what this surgery meant. It meant removing my breasts, enduring severe scarring and deformity, plus a long recovery process. But it also meant that I could perhaps have a life without recurrent bacterial infections, asthma and lung infections, thyroid disease, chronic debilitating fatigue and severe autoimmune disorders. It meant that I had the chance to gain my health back. I took the gamble and now I am winning! My Slow Health Improvements Flew Into Hyper-Speed Within six months of my implant removal, coupled with the change in lifestyle that I have made with the Optimal Wellness Center, my slow health improvements flew into hyper-speed and I am recovering! My implant biopsy report came back and confirmed what Dr. Mercola, Dr. Garcia and Jody had warned me of: my implant valves had failed on both implants, which meant that my implants were sucking in small bits of biological material from the body into the implant, creating smoldering bacterial infections inside the implant where they were sheltered from antibiotics. Then, the implants would leach the bacteria back into my body where they would wreak havoc on my immune system manifested as pneumonia, bladder infections, sinus infections and a whole host of other reactions. Antibiotics could not cure the infections because the implant shell protected the bacteria from the antibiotics. So I lived with constant infections. I would never have considered such a thing possible until the Grace of God brought me to the place where miracles occur, where cancer is cured, where fibromyalgia is cured and where I was cured, The Optimal Wellness Center. This is a place of truth, where the body is taught to heal and live healthy, where medical myths and hazards are exposed, where life is simplified and control given back to the patient to heal thyself. I still have work to do and more health to regain, but since I began my work with the great healers at the Optimal Wellness Center, and since I have had my implants removed, I no longer need asthma medication, sleeping pills, anxiety medication, daily antibiotics or antidepressants. I have been able to get off of years of medication to the tune of nine different prescriptions. I sleep eight sound hours and wake up in the morning rested. My sugar addiction is gone. I no longer spend my life as the human basketball bounced from doctor to doctor for the treatment of the sum of my parts. I am whole again and functioning again. I thank God for my wonderful supportive husband who brought me to the Optimal Wellness Center and has stood by my side through sickness and now health. I thank God for my family who has watched me suffer for so long without answers. And I thank God for the wonderful healers at the Optimal Wellness Center, who have coached me back to good health, helped me to make important but necessary changes to my lifestyle, and for treating me as a whole person. Related Articles: How a Vegetarian Resolved Underweight and Rosacea Problems Breast Implants on the Rise Despite Risks Important Information for Women Considering Breast Implants Amazing Recovery From Dermatomyositis, a Rheumatoid-Arthritis-Like Disease
Amy Pearlman’s story is a dramatic testimony to how you can turn your health completely around if you are really committed to it. As she says in the story, it isn’t always easy but the incredible changes she experienced were invaluable.
Here at the Optimal Wellness Center we do not offer you a "quick fix" to superficially cover up your symptoms. Instead, we teach you how to restore and revitalize your body so your health problems are tackled at the root and you are able to regain your health, and in some cases even reverse disease.
But the program does take some effort on your part, and a strong commitment to give yourself the health you deserve. You will likely end up finding, as many of our patients have, that your nutrition and lifestyle changes are affecting unexpected aspects of your life--from increased energy, to better sleep, to a brighter mood--and even as your health returns you won’t want to go back to your old ways--you will likely feel that good!
As you read through the story below, allow yourself to feel inspired by this woman’s health accomplishments. And then, if you are interested in finding out more about the Optimal Wellness Center, take our New Patient Tour to find out how you too can reach higher levels of health.
Contributed by Amy Pearlman Lincolnshire, IL
At age 29, I thought I might die. After visiting over 30 different medical doctors for treatment of an endless list of health problems that "traditional" medicine simply did not cure, I felt I could not handle any more illness. Just some of my health problems included:
Rheumatologist, gastrointestinologist, otolarynologist, dermatologist, gynecologist and so on, much like a game of basketball, my "traditional" doctors would treat their one assigned area of the body and bounce me on to another "-ologist" to treat a different illness.
And yet, nobody could put the pieces together and figure out that something systemic was slowly killing me.
‘At the Rate I Was Going, I Feared I Might Not See my 30th Birthday’
Perhaps there was a doctor who could treat the whole person instead of the parts; after all, the saying goes "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," so why not treat it that way? I never considered holistic, natural medicine until I realized that at the rate I was going, I might not see my 30th birthday. I slept 12 hours a day during the week and 14 to 16 hours a day on weekends. Each day I grew sicker, more infections more complications. This was my life from 1999 until my wonderful husband convinced me to see Dr. Mercola at the Optimal Wellness Center in 2002.
At age 29, "traditional" medicine had me on a strong cocktail of prescription medications including:
These poisonous cocktails only made my conditions worse as I now know from Dr. Mercola, abuse of antibiotics can cause serious medical problems including fungus overgrowth (which I battle), while overuse of steroids cause adrenal/cortical imbalances and bone density problems (which I now battle).
"Traditional" medical treatments may have done more harm than good for me.
For about three months prior to my first visit at the Optimal Wellness Center, my husband had been following Dr. Mercola's nutrition plan, seeing the therapists at the clinic for NST, EFT, cranial osteopathy and allergy testing, and meeting other patients who had overcome severe illnesses like cancer and fibromyalgia.
He was able to cure his leaky gut syndrome after starting Dr. Mercola's nutrition plan, juicing and taking digestive enzymes. Out of desperation I made my first visit and today I wish I had done it sooner.
‘I Did Everything That the Optimal Wellness Center Offered’
You can imagine my surprise when as a vegetarian Dr. Mercola informed me that I was a protein metabolic type and should eat meat. I fought this at first but as I grew sicker, I decided to give it a try. I felt better almost immediately with the new diet and have followed it ever since. Still, I wanted faster relief for my medical problems so I did everything that the Optimal Wellness Center offered in my commitment to get well including:
I will not tell you that this routine is easy. It takes a significant investment of time, will and dedication, but the payoffs are huge and the health benefits invaluable. And, the Optimal Wellness Center provides a support system of coaches to help along the way as I strive to regain my health.
A Difficult Decision
The team at the Optimal Wellness Center including Jody, my EFT therapist, helped me to make a very difficult decision to have my saline breast implants removed in November 2003.
Dr. Mercola and the team there have seen severe health complications with the use of these devices and convinced me that my health would improve significantly as well as more rapidly without the toxic silicone shell and tainted saline typical of breast implants.
This was very scary for me but Jody, Dr. Mercola, Dr. Garcia, Wendy and Lena were there by my side throughout the entire ordeal. They were instrumental in helping me cope with both the physical and the emotional aspects of what this surgery meant.
It meant removing my breasts, enduring severe scarring and deformity, plus a long recovery process. But it also meant that I could perhaps have a life without recurrent bacterial infections, asthma and lung infections, thyroid disease, chronic debilitating fatigue and severe autoimmune disorders. It meant that I had the chance to gain my health back. I took the gamble and now I am winning!
My Slow Health Improvements Flew Into Hyper-Speed
Within six months of my implant removal, coupled with the change in lifestyle that I have made with the Optimal Wellness Center, my slow health improvements flew into hyper-speed and I am recovering!
My implant biopsy report came back and confirmed what Dr. Mercola, Dr. Garcia and Jody had warned me of: my implant valves had failed on both implants, which meant that my implants were sucking in small bits of biological material from the body into the implant, creating smoldering bacterial infections inside the implant where they were sheltered from antibiotics. Then, the implants would leach the bacteria back into my body where they would wreak havoc on my immune system manifested as pneumonia, bladder infections, sinus infections and a whole host of other reactions.
Antibiotics could not cure the infections because the implant shell protected the bacteria from the antibiotics. So I lived with constant infections. I would never have considered such a thing possible until the Grace of God brought me to the place where miracles occur, where cancer is cured, where fibromyalgia is cured and where I was cured, The Optimal Wellness Center.
This is a place of truth, where the body is taught to heal and live healthy, where medical myths and hazards are exposed, where life is simplified and control given back to the patient to heal thyself.
I still have work to do and more health to regain, but since I began my work with the great healers at the Optimal Wellness Center, and since I have had my implants removed, I no longer need asthma medication, sleeping pills, anxiety medication, daily antibiotics or antidepressants. I have been able to get off of years of medication to the tune of nine different prescriptions. I sleep eight sound hours and wake up in the morning rested.
My sugar addiction is gone. I no longer spend my life as the human basketball bounced from doctor to doctor for the treatment of the sum of my parts. I am whole again and functioning again. I thank God for my wonderful supportive husband who brought me to the Optimal Wellness Center and has stood by my side through sickness and now health. I thank God for my family who has watched me suffer for so long without answers. And I thank God for the wonderful healers at the Optimal Wellness Center, who have coached me back to good health, helped me to make important but necessary changes to my lifestyle, and for treating me as a whole person.
Related Articles:
How a Vegetarian Resolved Underweight and Rosacea Problems Breast Implants on the Rise Despite Risks Important Information for Women Considering Breast Implants Amazing Recovery From Dermatomyositis, a Rheumatoid-Arthritis-Like Disease
How a Vegetarian Resolved Underweight and Rosacea Problems
Breast Implants on the Rise Despite Risks
Important Information for Women Considering Breast Implants
Amazing Recovery From Dermatomyositis, a Rheumatoid-Arthritis-Like Disease
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