March 28, 2011

Health Observations Blog #3

            My interest in health developed from childhood. My parents were always aware of good wholesome food with proper preparation and as much fresh fruit and vegetables as possible. When I was about 8 years old, my father brought home a bushel basket of oranges for the five in our family to eat. Well, as a young and healthy child my appetite was not easily quenched and I soon broke out with a rash all over both arms, which the school nurse did not like and sent me home with some presumed diagnosis. When the doctor found that I had been eating a lot of oranges, he smiled and said: “go light on the oranges” and you’ll be OK. Well, I had a short vacation from school and was soon back to normal. At 9 years old, I got a terrible pain in my stomach after every meal, and would have to lie down from the pain. My Uncle whom we all considered to be the real “health nut” in the family, told his brother (my father), that what I needed was some “goldenseal” tea. So, I had a few doses of goldenseal tea, (probably not more that 15-20 times) after meals, and my stomach aches were totally gone.

            After my arrival in Israel, my sister also came and after a few years developed cancer and died. My father about the same time at age 60 had a stroke from the stress of working two jobs and other things. My mother was having heart arrhythmia problems and started taking several medications for it. After recovering from severe paralysis on one side, my father realized that some serious life style and diet would have to be made to survive. Well, he must have chose well, because he and mom later moved to Israel and gradually replaced nearly all of their medications with proper nutrition and a healthier lifestyle. My mother recently died peacefully at home without sickness or infection at age 87 having enjoyed a long life with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren around her. My father Art, still works with me now in my retirement doing different projects around the small farm where we have settled, and also helps me in our mutual pursuance of healthy living endeavors. He appears to be in excellent health at soon to be 89, and still works hard and maintains a driving license.

            Especially, after my sister’s death, I was becoming more aware of ways to achieve better health in order to avoid such disease.

            In about the year 2000, I was invited to an in-house demonstration of Nikken Products. During that meeting, I was asked to wear a flat magnetic device called a “back flex” during the meeting “which may help relieve my lower back pain” which I had been troubled with most of my life. (From what I understood from doctors, the problem was that two vertebrae were fused together with no disc between them, maybe from birth, but there was enough movement to cause irritation and sometimes severe pain). Well, after wearing that device for about one hour during the meeting, I had completely forgotten that I had any pain, because it was gone. From then, I was so excited that I wanted to tell everyone about such wonderful products. Well, not everyone was as excited as I was, or had the same response that I had. But, in the following few years, I spent a lot of time studying about different types of modalities which may trigger healing in the human body. I have enjoyed that part of the journey even yet today. My desire to help people was the driving force behind my getting into the appliance repair business. When I left the house of a working appliance, and a happy customer, it gave me a real thrill. The idea that I could help relieve someone else’s pain and suffering must be a lot of what Doctor’s also feel. It sure seemed to surpass fixing someone’s refrigerator.

            After a few years of heavy involvement with the Nikken products, I came across some nutritional information that at first I was uneasy about, but soon fell in love with. My father and mother were 82 years old at that time, having just returned from the US., they were done traveling, and my father said later that he knew that he and mom would not be around for long and may need some outside help very soon. Well, since my office and computer are in his house (next door to mine), he also heard from a friend of mine in Australia about some very unique glyconutrient products and said that if they were even ½ what they claimed to be, that he had to try them.

            The products were not available in Israel, but he was able to purchase them through his American address since they originated in the US. And after about 3 months of diligence, he had them in his hands and started to use

them. In my fathers own words, “in just a few weeks after starting to use these products, we (my wife and I) felt as if we were being rejuvenated (what some would call reversing the aging process). Gradually we felt renewed ambition and stamina to lead a normal life, and felt better than we had 10 – 15 years previous. Only once or twice in the last 5 years did we get even a cold, and that passed very quickly without complications or infections and never any flu (without taking any flu shots). In fact since 2003 we have never even been to a doctor other than for renewal of my drivers license every two years as the law requires. I am sure that this one product added at least 5 more healthy years of life to my wife and me”. Last week, just two months before his 89^th birthday, my father again passed the doctors approval for a new driving license.

           

For more information on this and other health observations, please see next blog.