After drinking the well water, I all but forgot who I was suffering from repeated bouts of chemical induced amnesia where I lost much of my long term memory and had almost no short term memory. Needless to say this made me appear quite stupid while it made me so dumb I had no idea I’d gotten that way because the intelligence I needed to know what was wrong was neutralized in a state of shock. But during the times I found relief from my ailment, my lost mind would come back to me with the visionary institutions I’m accustomed to having access to waking up. It would come back to me like a memory of a place I used to love that I had forgotten existed. Then after being exposed to MTBE pollution again, my mind would fade slowly slipping away from me as I watched it disappear never knowing if it, or I, would wake back up in my normal mind again. It was like dying and coming back to life over and over until I learned how to manage my health in such a way to minimize the effects pollutants have on me. Since the oil companies that put MTBE in gasoline have so much control over our leadership in Washington DC, the required testing was never done to discover what kind of ailments their product causes so no therapy has ever been developed for the disabilities it causes. In fact without the proper testing for physicians to refer to, most have no idea that MTBE is in most of the drinking water in the a US and is the source of many illnesses that are misdiagnosed as other disorders. Up until the spring of 2006, it was also breathed regularly by all Americans everywhere.
So I was stuck with figuring out how to cure my own chemical sensitivity disorder. Since I’ve learned how to do this, I have a whole new outlook on how to take care of myself that I wish I had known about before I was forced to find it on my own because the simple things I learned that gave me back my mind, body, and soul would have prevented me from ever having gotten sick in the first place even if I had been exposed to MTBE that same way. And now I don’t get sick from anything unless I let me guard down from following a few basic precautionary measures. Since they’ll work for anyone and are safe to use for anyone to try so they can see that they work, I will share my techniques with you here.
I’d been suffering over a year after drinking the polluted well water having very little hope for my future. I never got any relief from my symptoms one of which was having a hard time breathing. Then one day I received a flier in the mail advertising a mixture of herbs guaranteed to help restore easy breathing to injured lungs even for long term smokers. I didn’t have any money at the time. My business had fallen by the wayside a long time before that where all I had left was the chores I did around the house I lived in which would hopefully keep me from being put out on the streets.
Since this herbal concoction was around sixty dollars for a bottle with my having no idea if it would work or not, there was no way I was going to try to borrow money to buy it when whatever money I could raise would be better spent buying food and things I had to have. I almost threw the flier away so I wouldn’t be tempted to buy what I thought was probably nothing more than scam. I mean if herbs could restore smokers lungs, it would seem everyone would know about it right?
But before I took out the trash, it dawned on me that the ingredients for this possible snake oil might be on the flier where maybe I could buy the key ingredient and get the same relief they built their whole product around. So I fished it out of the garbage looking it over until I found the small print. Sure enough it was there where the two top ingredients on a long list of others appeared to maybe be what actually made it work. So I copied down their names and went to the library to look them up on the internet. As I had hoped, they were both famous in Chinese herbal practices for ending breathing troubles.
So I searched for a cheap source of both of them, one I found easily while the other was so ridiculously expensive no matter where I bought it that there was no way I could ever afford it, expect for at a little store in Chinatown in Washington DC where they just so happened to sell Cordyceps mushrooms ground up in capsules that for whatever reason, maybe a miracle in a long list of them that help give me back my health, sold for only 3.99 a bottle.
I found the other one, Astragalus root powder on the Internet selling in bulk by the pound for around 21 dollar with shipping. What they both do is relieve the kidneys. You see the kidneys are right under the lungs. Kidneys digest toxins out of our body making it safe to pass through the liver. The enzymes that the kidneys use in order to do this are very hard for it to manufacture so pollutants back up like the rush hour traffic in front of my house that was giving me all the trouble with my breathing waiting for the kidneys to process it out of the body. This is what actually aggravates the lungs, not the breathing of the pollutants into the lungs. Well,,, that’s not exactly true. Breathing pollution was directly hurting my lungs but it was the pollution around my kidneys that was weakening my lungs so they couldn’t handle dealing with pollution anymore.
What astragalus and codyceps do is give the kidneys what they have such a hard time producing for themselves allowing them to flush pollutants through the body with ease. So once I received my astragalus in the mail, after setting a pinch of it being on my tongue letting it dissolve so it easily entered my bloodstream, I was breathing better than I had been able to since I first got sick twenty minutes later. In fact I was beginning to feel relief almost as fast as I took my first dose. After trial and error, I learned to keep a vial of it in my pocket instead of wearing a respirator where at the first hint of breathing troubles, I would pinch a little in my mouth and go on with my day. Once I found the cheap source of cordyceps, mixing the two made me feel like I was on top of a mountain thousands of miles from any pollution where I could breath easier in my polluted environment better than when I was a youngster even after I had taken up smoking, which of course I had to quit when I got sick.
But there were still a lot of symptoms I suffered from that neither of these Chinese herbs cured in fact some if which the herbs only made worse until I better understood them. See before I drank the well water, I suffered from a lot of muscle and joint problems that seemed to be arthritic while I also seemed to suffer from depression. It never made any sense to me because I didn’t have anything I was depressed about. My life had always been hard which I seemed to have thrived on my troubles since childhood. But sure enough, I had all the symptoms of depression even though in my mind, nothing was terribly bothering me. I had died when I was a young child from being stung by a hive full of yellow jackets where I had an out of body experience. I learned lot in those minutes seeing what most people never live to remember. So pretty much after that, nothing bothered me.
Once I figured out my health problems were being caused by breathing MTBE fumes where I live, even though the symptoms were still there, the fact that I knew what they were caused by kept me from trying to associate what my nervous system was going through as a reflection of how I managed my personal feelings. But in taking the kidney cleansing herbs, I found something else I didn’t know about, that relief from body toxins, just like with smoking and drinking, causes withdrawal symptoms which was another aspect of my mental health I first attributed to my seeming lack of ability to cope with my environment and personal problems in my life. It was hard and still is to always be able to remind myself that I’m not tired or frustrated or angry but only going through a healthy adjustment to my body being relieved of the level of pollutants it’s accustomed to.
But once I figured out how it all worked, the experience gave me the ability to greatly cope with stress. That’s when I began to see that others around me were chronically suffering from many symptoms caused by pollutantion and then withdrawal from them when not being exposed to it like with someone who sits in rush hour traffic for hours a day during the workweek with pollution all around them aggravating their nervous system making them hyper, impatient, and unable to cope with high levels of stress or reason who then become listless and sickly by Sunday after not being exposed to such a polluted environment for a couple days. Then Monday comes and they repeat the same cycle through the coming weeks building their personality around pollution that makes them course towards everything they do because they believe their personal approach to life is what’s making them feel like nothing is working.
But for me, I had learned to step back from it not taking what pollution was doing to me personally because I had learned what was causing my moods appear to swing since it all affected me so dramatically so I could see it much clearer because it beat me up so badly. Then about the time I had it all, figured out, I discovered another Chinese herb called Skullcap that’s used to help junkies and alcoholics deal with ending abusing their bodies with mind altering pollutants. So I found a cheap source for it buying it in bulk and found that chewing a pinch of it when times were tough brought almost instant relief from the withdrawal symptoms, which were largely caused by taking the kidney cleansing herbs that removed pollutants from my body so fast that it caused my nervous system and brain to adjust to how well it gave them access to my senses previously had been numbed to a great degree.
Then there’s this other magical cure-all that’s not herbal but a supplement to nutrition where much the same as the way the Chinese herbs give the kidneys what they need to work so they don’t have to produce it themselves, glyconutrients are dietary supplements rich in components of a normal human animal diet that’s not adequately supplied by our modern day food refiners. Glyconutrients are sugar. Sugar is what our cell system uses to communicate information which allows our body to give us the experience of millions of years of evolution that’s programmed into our genetic codes allowing us to do everything from coordinate having a great and successful life to how to heal itself from deadly diseases and injuries.
In our modern diet, we only get three of the nine sugars that we should have in order to make full use of the intelligent species of human animals we are members of. And some of the three sugars we are getting are so refined that by the time they hit the hydrochloric acid in our stomach, they turn toxic before entering our bloodstream working against the benefit they could have provided for us if they had been in a simpler easier digestible form closer to how it nature had created it which was the way we consumed it for millions of years before we learned to let factories predigest our food for us.
I learned about glyconutrient when a cat in the home I live in came down with cancer who was slated for a guaranteed trip to the next of his nine lives. For me, it was not as much of crushing blow as it was for my roommate. I had died once. I knew it wasn’t as big a deal as everyone’s makes it out to be, certainly not for a cat where the chances are they might wake up being spanked by a doctor being born in a hospital rather than a cardboard box or underneath a house the way they’d come into their last life. For humans it’s not so easy. It is for me because I know as I have been there and back. But for most of the rest of you, you won’t understand the game until you’re in the back of the line because you will likely believe religion is supposed to be used to guide you where you will be trying to go once you no longer have a body to help hold you on your natural course through life, which that might lead you far from where you might want to be. But that place is not as bad as it would seem if you don’t know what you missed out on so I won’t tell you anymore unless you ask because I don’t want to confuse you.
So when I got tired of hearing my roommate whine about the cat dying, I told her to have some faith and find a cure for him. She was bewildered for a while but then stepped up and took some action. First we took him to another veterinarian to make sure the first one had gotten the correct diagnosis which apparently he did because I got him to show me the books he referenced his diagnosed from and sure enough, there was no answer to what the tests showed other than the little guy was going to die of cancer.
With my roommate still falling apart about poor Elmer’s demise, I advised her to keep looking for an answer, to see if there are any magic herbs that cure cancer in cats like I had always read about there being for people but didn’t believe actually worked. I wanted her to find a way to have hope so she would stop the sobbing. And I’ll be darned if she didn’t pull it together and do something about it.
A noble effort was seeming to me to be turning into a wild goose chase when I found myself going with her to a meeting where I was trying to be talked into handing over a bucket full of cash I didn’t have to become a salesmen for a pyramid scheme type marketing program selling a miracle cure for all that ails. But in the end, she was given a few free capsules to try. So what the heck, if it kept dry eyes in the house, I was willing to play along. 20 minutes after the smallest amount of powder from one of the capsules was added to Elmer’s food, he was up and walking around with no visible distress other than looking weak and tired. In fact he wasn’t even having a hard time breathing anymore. His symptoms did however come back by the next day but after another dose, it went away for a couple days. Every time after that, he did fine for a longer and time periods between each dose until I forgot he was ever sick. He lived for 6 more years dying from something having nothing to do with his earlier diagnosis.
Basically what glyconutrients do is give us access to millions of years of genetic information about how the life forms we evolved from and into have the ability to aid us in our survival and enhance our lives. But since we don’t get all the sugars we need in our diet, we’re not able to take full advantage of our true potential. Your taking glyconutrients are parallel to society going from having a telegraph system sending massages from one place to another through Morse Code to like how today we have cell phones and the internet today so we’re never disconnected from any prospects the outside world might have to offer us.
I can personally attest to how great glyconutrients work because without them, I have no idea how well I would have survived my health problems. I do believe I would have done fine if all I’d ever known about was astragalus. But then Elmer got sick before I learned about it which the only reason I gave the flier that I learned about astragalus from a second thought was because of what I’d seen happen with giving him glyconutrients. In fact I had been using glyconutrients to stabilize my health problems where they probably would have done as good a job as astragalus but it was too expensive for me to buy in high enough quantities to find out. But astragalus was cheap so I could try enough of it where I could always count on it to keep me healthy.
But here is the main point of the story, why I told the story about astragalus root powder first. It turns out that the glyconutrient supplement I was using, which there are many different brands if you look for them on Ebay. Ambrotose is the one I was using. But it has astragalus gum in it. So astragalus is some very powerful magic powder that’s cheap to buy in powered form. A pound on Ebay can be bought for under twenty dollars and will last so long I don’t remember when I last bought it.
The next supplement you need to know about if you never want to get sick again is Grapefruit Seed Extract, GSE, not “grape seed” extract. It comes in pill or liquid form. A dose of liquid is between 10 and 15 drops. It’s called a natural antibiotic, like honey. But it doesn’t have the negative side effects that come with pharmaceutical antibiotics where if you don’t kill a virus with antibiotics, it can mutate and come back worse. When you here it said there’s no cure for the common cold, the people saying it have never tried grapefruit seed extract.
If you have a terrible cold or flu that nothing seems to help get rid of, 15 drops of GSE in juice, pineapple covers up the taste best but I mix it with water which is strong, like a shot of straight cheap vodka. But twenty minutes later you’ll feel like you’re truly on the road to recovery. And if you’re religious about taking it every few hours, you’ll be out of the woods in twenty four hours. It took me a while to pick up the habit of doing this next task but now that I’ve made it part of my life’s routine, I never get sick. What I do is dose myself with it at the slightest hint of illness. If I sneeze, I dose. If my throat feels rough, I don’t hesitate, I just take my medicine and it’s over.
GSE also helps with any other kinds of health problems, even a small infection, and surely a large one, or simply for no reason but to insure good health. And if you’re going through anything dramatically threatening to your future, it will give you a great edge against whatever it is. I believe it even helps to put a few drops in my water bottle when I go running to keep me better hydrated while protecting me from injuries. It seems to have the ability to travel through the body quickly dissolving any stale or rotting cells so they can easily be flushed from the part of the body they’re corrupting. However, although the manufactures says this next issue should not be a problem, I don’t see how it can work against bad bacteria in the body and not effect to some degree good bacteria. But since pollutants and diet, along with most all pharmaceutics drugs kill good bacteria, this is a problem most people have anyway, unless you happen to eat a lot of yogurt or take acidophilus supplements, which yogurt is rich in having ample supplies of.
But with yogurt, you have to be careful if you use the flavored kind. Almost all of them except for a few have sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or artificial sweeteners that will prevent you from getting the full benefit that it can give you. I don’t have any problem with plain yogurt. I take a spoon full if I think I ate food that might not have been fully cooked or of questionable age which helps not suffering the symptoms that can often accompany it. Or I eat a big spoon full just as a daily addition to my diet. But it also works well to mix with salad with vinegar and some spices.
But if you like the sweet yogurt mixes but don’t want the problems that sweeteners in it will give you, try adding some honey and your favorite “all fruit” jelly to some plain yogurt and mix it up, even add some granola to it. It’s even better that way I think than the best store shelf brands with all the sugar in them while it’s also healthy. And if you have bad breath, a toothache, or gum problems, it’s usually the fault of bad bacteria’s in your mouth which mouthwash only serves to kill all the bacteria rather than balance it. But a spoon full of yogurt will give the good bacteria a boost in being able to fight off the bad bacteria and fungus making your breath fresh in minutes while perhaps curing a toothache depending on what’s causing it. Of course the best defense against those kinds of problems is flossing and using toothpaste with no chemical additives in it. But regular yogurt supplements in your diet will do a world of good for your dental hygiene.
And the last health issue for today is one I believe I can help you understand in a way that you won’t find anywhere else, which is obesity. That’s right, I’m going to tell you one more aspect of understanding weight control that you can mix in with all the other information out there so you can try to sort it out to see what recipe best works for you. The good thing about this advice is that it’s free and won’t pile up on your book shelf later not selling at your yard sale when you try to get rid of it hoping it can help someone where it failed for you. This advice is short and sweet and may be all you ever need to know about how to be able to control any weight problems you might ever have.
It’s really not complicated so the only reason I can figure it’s not what we already all understand as the only way to look at weight problems is because there isn’t a lot of money to be made marketing something that works using nothing but a certain amount of common sense. Like with most of what I have learned since I started having to fight for my life against pollution, if most people understood how bad pollution is for us and also knew that we could live in a society free of it without sacrificing the things we need and love, then it wouldn’t be long before we would only be willing to build toxic free societies. But then to get to that better world away the toxic one we live in now, we would have to get the people making all the money from how it’s run out of our way. And since they have all the money and money is what it would take to turn things around, then all we can do is educate ourselves and each other about what we can do to avoid or rectify the problems pollutants cause until one day there’s enough of a consensus about what the truth is to force change.
But this is it in a nutshell. We live in a toxic society. Our bodies don’t like to have to process pollution. It’s not only dangerous for us but effects our offspring which threatens the very nature of our survival. Fat is something the body stores as energy to burn later, like I notice I put on weight much easier as fall starts to set in moving towards winter. But our bodies also build up fat to store toxins in to prevent it from circulating through the body. Most of the problems we have with obesity comes from a deadly cycle of our body telling us to keep eating carbohydrates that are easy to produce fat from like sugar and chips, anything that’s highly processed simple carbohydrates.
See when you get hungry, your body will start to burn fat. But if that fat is toxic, then the body doesn’t want to have to burn it. So it will send signals to your brain telling you to eat something it can easily burn for fuel instead of the toxic fat. But then what gets eaten has more carbohydrates than the body can burn for fuel right away. And since simple carbs become toxic when they’re processed through the hydrochloric acid in your stomach anyway, it also get turned into fat. So between our polluted environment and diet, it’s easy to get stuck in a deadly cycle where the cure the body seeks to keep it from burning toxic fat creates more toxic body fat.
But then when you try to diet to get rid of the fat, since the body has been attached to the toxic fat for a long time keeping the bloodstream always high in harmful toxins, it has adjusted to it much like a cigarette smoker or alcoholic does with high levels of nicotine and alcohol in their bloodstream. So putting an end to giving the body fattening toxic products will send it into withdrawal where the longer it takes to work the toxic body fat off you hips and thighs, the longer the symptoms last. So just like with stopping smoking or drinking, some people can handle the withdrawal easily while others seem to lose their minds trying so they go back to smoking or drinking themselves to death.
For me, I had the more dramatic kind of addictive problem when trying to quit smoking and drinking until I understood that what was going on in my body had nothing to do with me personally, that the feelings I had were just reactions in my nervous system that didn’t mean I was anxious or angry or impatient, that it wasn’t how I really was or felt, it was just how I thought I felt as the emotional meters in my brain adjusted to the cleaner blood flowing through my blood. So I believe if people who have trouble dieting understand better what’s going on in their body, they could get through the psychological issues that accompany dieting mush easier.
But still, the magic cure-all for weight control is, yep, you guessed it, astragalus because it will help your kidneys flush toxins from your body as it’s released into your bloodstream when you burn off the toxic fat which protect you greatly from what your body feared from it in the first place. And if you use it regularly, it will keep the levels of pollutants in your body down low enough that you will not store as much toxic fat anymore while at the same time reducing your risk of becoming diabetic.
I wasn’t able to get control of my chemical sensitivity disorder until I realized I had to get rid of all the old toxic fat from my body, some of which had probably been there for decades. And I knew once I had gotten rid of it, I had to keep it off. So I fasted to lose it drinking lots of good clean water with no chemicals like tap water has in it. Right now I find the only safe water I can easily access in the metropolitan area I live in, which isn’t necessarily the best water would be drinking if I had a choice, is by distilling rainwater myself. But it does work very well for me so I do recommend it even though fresh clean groundwater that has a natural mineral content would be better if you have a safe source to get it from, which should be stored in glass rather than plastic for the best quality.
I hear a lot of people fast to lose body fat drinking cayenne pepper, lemon juice, and maple pure syrup mixing it together in water. But if you take any of my advice, I recommend you ease into anything radical slowly. If you’re the kind of person that goes to the doctor a lot, you should check with them before you do anything. If you mostly take care of your own health problems and are familiar with how to judge what’s right and what’s potentially problematic for you, then you should do fine dealing with any advice I give you on your own. If you’re somewhere in the middle, perhaps you should share the experience of a new and healthier approach to dealing with your body with someone else so you can compare notes with them.
Detoxing your body is extreme. It’s extremely good for you but it’s not something that anyone who doesn’t have a strong sense of themselves should dive into quickly. But with any of the advice I have offered here, if you ease into it allowing you and your internal you a chance to get to know each other better, you will find a whole new world waiting for you when you and your body learn to think as one in a much less toxic mind.
Take me for instance. I had pretty much a fourth grade education until I was thrown out of high school when I was 15. Then I got my GED and went to college for a year after which I lived on the streets as a self indulging drunken hobo for 12 years before I moved back inside and got sick drinking polluted well water. Then after being very sick for five years having great troubles with my nervous system and thinking process, once I figured out how to put this machine called my body together so it runs the way it’s supposed to, I can sit down and write an article like this with very little effort. Being someone who spent most of his toxic life scraping the bottom of the barrel, I gotta figure if I can do as well with my health as I do now, you ought to be able to do better.
Right now, I eat just once a day so I burn the fat from yesterday today before eat and create more fat so toxins never get a chance to build up in my body. But when I do eat, not only does it always taste so much better than when I was constantly eating, I’m still able to eat a lot so I don’t starve or feel like I missed out on what I love to eat. It took a while to get used to it but now I don’t give it a second thought. The end of the workday comes with a carrot and fruit, which you have no idea how good a carrot can taste when you haven’t eaten all day. Then I have a big bowl of salad followed by soup. Then a pile of sandwiches or meat. I usually end with fruit and a peanut butter and honey or all fruit jelly sandwich. Now that I’ve adjusted to eating this way, I can’t understand how I ever got along in life eating all the time, just like when I drank so much or smoke many packs of cigarettes a day instead of being able to enjoy a few smokes and a drink when I’m out in a social setting. Live and learn.
I have always pretty much figured everything out on my own but not everyone can or should do that. If you’re going to try to make adjustments in how you deal with your health, you should follow the kind of pattern you’re comfortable with using what works in other endeavors in your life. Once you get acclimated to the new and healthy course you set yourself on, your instincts will take over helping you create a process that works perfectly for you. There is a whole other side of you that speaks in a language you have never been taught how to decipher. But it knows so much more than you can imagine about you and how life has evolved to be floating around in space on this little rock we call Earth.
Once you clean all the foreign agents out of your body that are preventing it from being able to talk to you in a language that you can both understand, it will explain to you that it wants you to be perfectly healthy until the day you both walk away to find out what lies beyond this life while it would prefer this be done as fruitfully and as perfectly comfortable as possible until that times comes, preferably happening in your sleep. And I assure that would be how most of us would pass on if we lived in a less toxic world or knew better how to manage our health as long as we have to live in such a polluted one now.
Go to http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/439/27/ to read the companion article to this one that was published at same time this one was which is about the same topic, health and pollution but more of the political side of the issue.
Send questions, comments, criticism, or suggestions to -
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
To check other articles by Bobby Fontaine, go to
http://clandestinecandidate.com |
Latest News 
