This site contains many links to safer products, non-toxic catalogs, and sites with information of interest to those with any sort of sensitivity to chemicals. Those with Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia may also benefit from using less toxic products. This is because all these illnesses are basically similar. Most with any of these illnesses, have some degree of pain, fatigue and sensitivities to food and environmental triggers. The rest of this site contains information on what I am doing to get better. I am approaching my journey to getting well, from a standpoint of doing what is more in tune with nature and what God intended. I have sworn off all drugs, supplements, doctors and un-natural things. And I do feel this is the only approach that has helped me at all. God did not provide us with pill trees!
Mary
If I throw something out there that is totally new to you, you might want to research further before you act on that information.
Click on one of the following links, or just scroll down to what interests you.
A date in red indicates a recent addition or update to the site.
MCS Sites ---- updated Dec 2004 Articles ---- updated December 2007 Miscellaneous Links ---- updated March 2006
Toxic Chemical Lists
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November 2005
Non Toxic Products that I Use ---- updated May 2008 updated or added these products: Bentonite Clay, Toms of Maine dental floss, sea salt, jojoba oil, Guides to Non Toxic Products ---- updated March 2005
Catalog Lists
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May 2005
Non Toxic Homemade Recipes
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December 2005
Body Diagnosis
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December 2005
My Journey to Wellness ---- updated May 2008 What I Am Doing to Heal My Body ---- updated ---- May 2008
The Moral of this Story if there is One
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May 2008
Following my progress
all references to prescription drugs will contain a *. This is because drug companies are spamming my guest books.
When searching for a drug related term, insert a * as the second letter and you will find it. You will need to do that
for the words z*oloft, a*ntidepressant, and S*SRI.
Non Toxic Recipes
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December 30, 2007
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Non Toxic Catalogs
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Feb 2006
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My Shopping Mall
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March 2006
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MCS Product Discount Page
Read or sign My Guest book Dead Links Sorry for any dead links. I do not update my site as often as I should. I am trying to take better care of me. Feel free to report a dead link. Here's my e-mail form there is also an e-mail button at the bottom of each page. November 9, 2007 I checked for and corrected all dead links found through the foxfire 'linkchecker' addon. So, there should not be as many dead links for a while. But sometimes, someone buys out an old website address, to take advange of all the free links to that site that already exist. Unfortunately, who knows where it will lead you. Sometimes it leads you to a page of advertisement links. Once on my sewing site, the unexpected link was a non family oriented adult site. UG! Not my fault. There really ott (lord I can't spell that word) to be a law against such things. Recently, I deleted a link that used to go to "The Omnivore" site. That is a bummer since that was a great site. Now the site is trying to sell a book. The new site has the old site blocked through archive so I can't even get to it that way. Anyway, the point is if a link goes some strange place, please let me know and I will remove it, or try to find it on archive.org.
When I add new links to a section, I take that opportunity to check all the links in that section for dead links,
or links that go someplace other than where they are supposed to go. This is the only way I know of to even
attempt to keep up with the constantly changing web world.
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MCS Sites
Environmental Illness - Our Little Place
MCS for Beginners
The Wall of Personal Testimony - HERC
Resources for the Chemically Injured, Chemically Sensitive or Environmentally Ill
- Lassen Technology
4 Stages of MCS - MCS Homepage
Chemical Injury Survivors of Minnesota
May 2004
Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases Information
MCS Resources - Rocky Mountain Environmental Health Association
Nova Scotia Allergy and Environmental Health Association
Share Care, and Prayer
Dec 2004
Atlanta Heal
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Articles
Invisible Cripples - Do No Harm (archived)
Scents Are Not What They Seem - NEAEHA
Poison in the Grass - chem-tox
Birds at Risk from Garden Pesticides - Rachel Carson Council
Radiation Ovens - Association for freedom of choice and Free information
MCS Under Siege - Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
Toxic Ingredients - Vaccine Information, Wendy's Story
Environmental Chemicals and Environmental Illness - Weston A Price Foundation
The Next Industrial Revolution - Environmental Wellness
Why Shoes Make a Normal Gait Impossible - Parents for Barefoot Children
May 2004
Sodium Fluoride used in Fluoridation is NOT Pharmaceutical Grade - Fluoride Action Network
Finding Tolerable Clothing or Fabric - NSAEHA
June 2004
School Environment - Healthy or Hazardous? - Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
Drugs, Stoned by Prescription - KOS Publishing
Salts that Heal and Salts that Kill - Cure Zone
July 2004
Economies for Life - "Yes" Magazine
Billboard Control: Fighting Visual Pollution - Scenic America
August 2004
The Seven Essentials of Recovery - by Debra Lynn Dadd
December 2004
How We Become Chemically Sensitive - Health and Certainty (archived)
the more link on the bottom on the above page does not work, click below to read that page... the "safe cleaning tips" on the above page does not work, click below to read that page...
Electromagnetic Field Poisoning - Craig Reese
Moldy Material - Health and Certainty (archived)
March 2005
The Problem with Pressure Treated Wood - Raw Food Info
Formaldehyde Toxicity - Grisanti
How to Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations of All Kinds - Mercola
The Oiling of America - Weston A Price Foundation
I would call MCS a degenerative disease.
The Fluoridation Fiasco - Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
May 2005
Polio: The virus and the disease
The SARS Epidemic - Are Viruses Taking the Rap for Industrial Poisons?
...WNV (west Nile Virus) epidemics occur annually in air-polluted petrochemical regions (such as eastern New Jersey and St. Louis) during the warm spring and summer months... and these epidemics don't spread infectiously to other regions."
Food For Thought: Malcolm Beck (archived)
Pushing up Daisies: Malcolm Beck (archived)
Other Malcolm Beck articles (archived)
Hospitalization for the Chemically Sensitive Patient - A MCS site
Facts of Light - Price Pottenger
Seeing the Light - Price Pottenger
The Murky World of High Fructose Corn Syrup - Weston A Price
"Consumers trying to avoid genetically modified foods should avoid HFCS. It is almost certainly made from genetically modified corn and then it is processed with genetically modified enzymes."
Agriculture and Nutrition - Weston A Price
Finding Health Close to Home - Weston A Price
Dec 2005
Natural Gas and People with Chemical Sensitivities - Medical-Environmental Report
How Nature Cures - Doctor Yourself
Hidden Allergens in Foods - Allergy Advisor
Poison for Profit - Red Flags Weekly
What's Wrong with Food Irradiation? - Organic Consumers
Dec 2006
People With Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Are Becoming the New Homeless - E Magazine
I thought hyperbaric oxygen might be a good idea until I read this article
Teflon – Is it Good or Bad - Dr Rapp (archived)
Dec 2007
Sludge - anarac (archived)
The Sludge Scam: Should Sewage Sludge Fertilize Your Vegetables - riles
healing power of sunlight - shirley's wellness cafe
fasting to cure depression - health freedom news
I know I feel emotionally better after a short fast of very light veggie
fare, but I feel a water only fast must be used with caution.
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Miscellaneous Links Society for Barefoot Living - we are already members! Healthy House Check Lists - CHEC
Resource List for Pesticide Alternatives - A Better way - IPM Solutions
November 2004
Burning Issues
Plastic: A Problem of Global Proportions - International Plastics Task Force
Understanding & Accommodating People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
in Independent Living - ILRU
Organic Directories - Organic Consumers
Score Card
The Healthy Flooring Network Guide to Healthy Flooring
Mercury and Nature - National Wildlife Foundation
Old Timers Page - Walton Feed
Food Cholesterol Chart
A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture, and Your Home - EPA
Epilepsy and Diet - Dogtor J
Food Sources of Various Nutrients - The Hypoglycemia Health Association of Australia
List of KOS Health Articles
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Toxic Stuff 42 Common Toxic Chemicals and their Effects - Rowatworks Glossary of Products with hazards A to Z - EPA Soy Alert! - Weston A Price Foundation Health risks of chemicals labeled Danger, Warning or Caution - CHEC Toxin Technical Information Index - Total Environment Centre (archived) June 2004 MCS Chemistry For Non-Chemists - MCS for Beginners List of Fragrance Chemicals- Immune Web Household Product Database - National Institutes of Health March 2005 Fabric Softeners Equal Health Risks from Dryer Exhaust and Treated Fabrics - MCS World Nov 2005
Skin Deep - Have your personal care products been assessed for safety?
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Non Toxic Stuff that I Use Personal Care Dakota Free Bar Soap Best stuff in the world! Only soap to not give me a rash!
Dakota Free Lip Balm
non toxic - produced my a MCS person. go to Dakota Free order any product that you need, then enter 10%MCS into the comment area of the order page. Un-Petroleum Jelly Use like Vaseline, but has no motor oil in it! The Solution full strength as a shampoo and 1:3 with water to clean with Widu Wooden Hair Brush Has a wood handle, removable wood bristles, no glue. the baking soda, that I was using was beginning to give me a rash. I think it is because I am nigh in calcium according to my last hair analysis. Before baking soda, I used peelu powder. That gave me a rash as well.
Silver Water Gel.
Used for burns, cuts, acne, sun burn, deodorant and feels nice on skin
Paper First Aid Tape I use this with a cut piece of 100% cotton T-shirt as a bandage Toms of Maine Unflavored Dental Floss naturally waxed with beeswax, Carnauba and Jojoba waxes, also contains a few herbs
Natracare feminine products
The grocery store kind of feminine products are so irritating.
Organic Essentials Cotton Balls normal cotton balls have added chemicals Organic Essentials Cotton Swabs ditto
Macadamia nut oil
for dry itchy skin
Nov 2005
Edge Unscented Shaving Gel
my hubby uses this.
The Solution
Very concentrated all purpose cleaner - works out to 9 cents an oz. great stuff!
Cal Ben Dish Washer Powder
Only kind of soap based dish powder that works and I have tried about all of them
Cal Ben Dish Soap Has a hint of coconut, feels nice on hands Bi-O-Kleen Glass Cleaner This brand must have changed its formula because it steaks now. When this stuff runs out I will try to use a dilute tea solution.
20 Mule Team Borax
to clean the toilet
Steel Wool instead of the soapy steel wool pads Sea Salt instead of denatured table salt. I prefer the peruvian salt.
Natural Cellulose Sponges
For cleaning - normal ones are plastic and contain chemicals Cellulose Bags to store food - scroll to see them
DeLonghi Convection Oven
instead of microwave. It has an enameled finish.
Frontier Organic Spices instead the probably GMO, irradiated grocery store kind! Pyrex Glass Food Storage instead of plastic Wide Mouth Glass Canning Jars to store my homemade beef broth
1 Quart Wine Decanters
I use as a water pitcher, I bought mine at a thrift shop
E G Smith Cotton Boot Socks
It says 100% cotton on the site, but the label says 99% cotton. They are so yummy though. So thick and warm and go all the way up to my knees. They do not bother me despite the 1% spandex. I sleep in these because I get cold feet at night.GAIAM Towels - green cotton Need to stay away from the formaldehyde in traditional cotton GAIAM Organic Cotton Sheets to avoid formaldehyde (wrinkle guard) and toxic flame retardants
100% Cotton Barrier Cloth Mattress Encasement
to block some of the toxic bedding materials from reaching me
100% Cotton Ironing Board Cover and Pad Heating synthetic fabrics and foams release toxic fumes into the air, and deposit them into the clothes that you are ironing, and your lungs.Nov 2005
Cotton Bath Mats
instead of vinyl lined polyester
Jojoba Oil I used to use this stuff to lubricate my sewing machine, because I read that you could do that on a web site. But after a few years of doing this, the machine ran so slow, and the sewing machine guy said the machine was all gummed up. Let me know if you know of a good alternative.
BioShield Wood Stains and Finishes
Most of their products have a nice citrus scent.
Dry Iron Has a stainless sole plate without the toxic non-stick finish of most irons. I love this iron. It does not has a steam feature. There are no steam holes to get clogged up. The iron seams to get hotter than normal irons, so I don't miss the steam. when I need steam I mist them. The iron is small, light and pointy, making is easier to get into small areas.Thermos Stainless Steel Food Jar instead of plastic Pest Control
Leather fly swatter
flies I got this one before I realized the toxic nature of tanning leather. If I were to get one now, I might buy a metal screen fly swatter in I could find one. If I do I will let you know. Yard Stuff Charcoal Chimney instead of lighter fluid
Whole Foods Real Hardwood (lump) Charcoal
instead of charcoal brickettes with chemical additives
April 2005 Swheat Scoop Natural Cat litter - clumping cat litter that is safe for kitty. for more info:Raw pet food from Burgundy Pasture Beef contains heart, liver, kidney and ground beef Dry pet food is so not good for animals. It is as bad as dry breakfast cereal is for humans. But every attempt we have made to wean our cats from dry food, has resulted in one or both cats to stop eating entirely. Then they have to go to the vet to be re-hydrated and force fed. Both have almost died because of this. Both cats will eat the cooked meat/veggie based canned food, but is is has been trial and error trying to find the flavors and brands they will eat. Cats will starve themselves if they don't like the smell. If a kitten is started on raw meat to begin with, it won't be a problem getting them to eat it. Cats tend to like what ever they are weaned onto, and hate most everything else. Dogs, tend to eat anything you put in front of them, even if not food (shoes, carpet, their own poop, etc.). Guides to Non Toxic Products Guidelines for Non-Toxic Living - Our Little Place Guide to Choosing Less Toxic Personal Care Products - HEAL. Less Toxic Cleaning Products - HEAL Resources for the Chemically Injured - Lassen Technology
Guide to Less Toxic Products - NSAEHA
Unscented or Mildly Scented Products Generally Tolerated by Most Persons with MCS - CND. Non-Toxic Alternatives to Common Household Products - CCAT. March 2005
Safer Products for Home and Personal Care - HERC
Non Toxic Catalog Lists
Non Toxic Product Catalogs
My Personal Non Toxic Shopping Mall
Building Materials - Lassen Technologies
Various Catalogs - Lassen Technologies
Cotton Clothing Catalogs - Lassen Technologies Organic Food Catalogs - Lassen Technologies
EI Resources - scroll about half way down - Share Care, and Prayer
MCS Resources - Our Little Place
MCS Product Resources - Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured
Less Toxic Products - MCS NYC
MCS Pamphlets, Posters, T-shirts, Etc. Pamphlets neighbor hood health notice let's stop poisoning our children please protect yourself from household toxins
fragrance free encounters
no perfume buttons and a door poster beware of occupant! - chemically sensitive occupant known to bite stinky people! - poster the sweetest smell is nothing at all - poster
MCS posters for sale
Nov 2005
Organic Garden - do not spray sign
pesticide free sign for the yard pesticide free zone sign for the yard
pesticide free yard and garden
Non Toxic Homemade Recipes Please avoid any recipes in the links below that contain toxic grocery store type ingredients such as: ammonia, dish detergent, fabric softener, dryer sheets, chemical fragrances, bleach, rubbing alcohol, mineral oil (baby oil is mineral oil, so avoid this too), motor oil, gasoline, kerosene, paraffin (it is made of petro chemicals), chemical dyes (rit dye or most food colors), or any other product made of petro chemicals.Of course, do not use anything that you are personally sensitive to such as: pine products, soy, coconut, citrus, etc. One can even be allergic to something 100% natural with no chemicals added. If you are unsure whether something is toxic or not, please look it up, in the toxic chemical lists. If an ingredient is toxic or you are allergic to it, please substitute with a similar but safe ingredient. Healing Recipes Home Remedy Recipes - recipe gold mine Barley Water Recipe - John Christopher (archived)
The way I did it, was to boil 2 oz of lightly pan roasted whole barley (not pearled)
in 1 quart of water, then simmered for
20-30 minutes. Then I strained and tossed out the barley. I drank 1 cup
of barley water about 4X a day.
It is supposed to strengthen the liver, and be good for lots of other stuff,
like infections, candida, cancer and parasites.
May 2005
Natural Therapies - healthy living by annie
Body Diagnosis August 2005
Tongue Diagnosis - Al Stone L. A. C.
Foot Reflexology - Massage Craft
Updated July 2005
I believe that going down the wrong road has lead me down the road to illness. I feel by selecting better paths
now, will send me on a journey to wellness. It has been a rocky road, but I am healing, slowly. I hope, some of my
discoveries, might help you too.
PROBLEM: I was such a fussy eater as a kid, but this got sort of embarrassing as a teen. Wrong Path #2 So, I started to force myself to eat the stuff that the other kids were eating, like pizza, spaghetti, Chinese food, tacos, Mac and Cheese, McDonald's Hamburgers and French fries. I hated milk, cheese, and tomato sauce. But by the end of high school I actually learned to like pizza and that other stuff. PROBLEM: As a teen, I no longer got the ear infections, and my hearing improved some. But I still got the worst colds (probably allergies as these 'colds' went on forever) and still had leg pain, but not as often. I also suffered depression, scoliosis, and a few bouts of bronchitis. I started playing basketball (well mostly kept the bench company) in high school, and after practice I had a large bowl of ice cream. After away games the coach brought us to McDonald's. Seems the bronchitis started after I started to play basketball. Probably the ice cream! Wrong Path #3
PROBLEM: After I got out of High School, I attended New Hampshire Technical Institute. They served almost no meat but lots of grain based meals, like spaghetti, tacos, pizza, and macaroni. I was used to meat and potatoes at home. At college, they only had milk, carbonated beverages, and watered down Kool-Aid. My dad was from Georgia, so I was used to sweet iced tea, even though we lived in Vermont. Wrong Path #4 Since there was no meat, I had to eat more bread and we often ordered pizza in the evening and on Sunday because on that day they only served two meals at really odd times. (11 am and 3 pm). We often missed one of both meals on Sunday, forgetting the meals were at different times. I hate milk, and carbonated drinks and the Kool-Aid looked disgusting so I drank the chocolate milk to cover up the taste. PROBLEM: I gained 10 pounds my first year of college, due to all that bread, and processed food they served. I never had a weight problem before. I got lots of infections like bronchitis and colds, and I was a little depressed. Good Path #1 That summer, I decided to loose the weight. I knew starving myself was not the answer. I heard about all the problems that causes. Your body slows down and uses up even less calories. I decided to ride my bike every day. I skipped no meals, but ate no snacks. I had no seconds and only ate 1 piece of bread with each meal at the most. I gave up potato chips and French fries too. I had read that 10 potato chips or French fries have 100 calories. I lost all the weight in those 3 months of summer. The next year, I avoided loading up on the rolls, and I stayed thin, and felt much better. I did not go to the doctor for my bronchitis since mom was not there to make me. PROBLEM: I took a computer programmer job after the Tech, but hated it so badly that, I quit after only 4 months. Might have just been homesick though. I moved back home. I took some local skill-less jobs to fill time until I decided what to do. One year after I graduated from the Tech, I continued my education at Old Dominion University, in Virginia. Within a short time, I got very ill and lost weight instead of gaining it. Again, the cafeteria had the same yucky choices of sodas, watered down Kool-Aid (It looked like they were just cleaning the tank it was so pale), and milk. I ended up drinking milk again. I started to have terrible digestion problems, namely reflux. Good Path #2 My mom suggested that I stop drinking milk. Wow, that made a huge difference, but I still had some problems since dairy by products such as casein, whey, sodium caseinate, etc. are mixed in with lots of prepared foods that institutions like schools serve. I had lost about 20 pounds (down to 100 pounds) and felt very weak and tired. I am 5' 4" so I was skin and bones. I could not even open the industrial type doors at school. I had to wait til someone else wanted to go in, and I entered at the same time. I really thought I was dying. A friend that had not seen me in a while, said that I looked anorexic. I did not realize that I looked that bad. So after hanging on for 2 terms and most of another, I finally told my mom how bad I really felt. Of course, she encouraged me to return home to Vermont. She took me to the doctor who found out nothing. For the next month, she tried her best to nurse me back to health. I felt a lot better at home, with real food, so I wanted to go back to school. But my mom did not think that was such a good idea. She was right, I hated it there. I really wanted to start my life, so asked the company, that I had co-oped for that summer to hire me full time, and I moved back to Virginia. I ended up getting married to a guy I met at work while I was co-oping. I now know that a diet made up of almost no meat, pasteurized milk, lots of grains, and almost entirely processed foods made me very ill. PROBLEM (age 26): After getting out of college. I was on a very limited diet of: lean chicken (I could not digest fats, probably because school would not give us any, so my body forgot how to deal with it), bananas, green beans, scrambled eggs (could not digest boiled or fried ones), white bread (couldn't digest brown bread, too much fiber), apple juice, and water. Fat, fiber, acid, caffeine and sugar bothered me. I switched to de-caffeinated iced tea (not knowing at the time there was still a little caffeine in it). After three years of this, I was sick of it and went to a doctors again. He said, maybe I was not allergic to anything anymore and I should start to add back foods one at a time, but just don't start with the worst food first. Wrong Path #5 So, I added foods back a little at a time then jumped to the worst offender, due to impatience. PIZZA! I felt fine, so I ate anything I wanted and for a while, I was fine. PROBLEM (age 31): But as time went on, I got sicker and sicker again, with colds, sinus and ear infections, bronchitis, fatigue, back and neck pain, stomach problems, pneumonia, mono, depression, irritability, anxiety and insomnia. Wrong Path #6
PROBLEM (age 32): I gained 20 pounds and was so tired that I slept all the time. Wrong Path #7 They switched me to z*oloft. PROBLEM (age 33): Had a cold that just would not leave. An environmental doctor discovered I was still allergic to milk and various plant life, and I had hypoglycemia and candida as well. Good Path #3 I gave up all dairy, sugar, caffeine, and cut down on bread. I lost 20 pounds in 3 months, without even trying. I had gotten up to 140 due to all that grain, sugar and paxil. I never really ate a lot of sweets but I had sweet iced tea with each meal and between meals. That is a lot of sugar. White bread is about the same thing as sugar. It turns almost instantly into sugar the second you eat it and wrecks havoc with blood sugar levels. I felt tons better, for a while anyway. Unfortunately, we moved so I could not get more good advice from this doctor. The environmental doctors in the new place (Texas) wanted to redo all the allergy tests, and I just did not feel up to all that. The other unfortunate thing was that I saw him after I got put on a*ntidepressants. I feel the allergies were causing my mood problems. PROBLEM (age 34): I got more food allergies, my depression returned, and my back pain got worse. I also got a bladder infection and started having problems with my teeth. Wrong Path #8
PROBLEM (age 38): In 1999, I had a concussion and later the same year, a had car accident. I suffered headaches, confusion, loss of memory, weight loss, fatigue, anxiety, back and neck pain, severe depression, panic attacks, and allergies to most foods especially grains. Wrong Path #9
PROBLEM (age 40): I had 3 more car accidents between 2000 and 2001. Probably due to all those evil drugs. So, I lost more weight, I had tons of pain (back, neck, leg, shoulder, feet, TMJ), and had fatigue, weakness, depression, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, muscle spasms, muscle twitching, buzzing in the ears, poor memory, confusion, and more food allergies . Wrong Path #10
PROBLEM (age 41) Of course more and more symptoms appeared or got worse. I suffered kidney and sinus infections, depression, anxiety, obsessive thoughts, tons of food allergies (got down to eating only beef, green beans, homemade broth, sea salt, and water), pain (back, neck, leg, shoulder, feet and TMJ -- just about everything hurt), reflux, hair falling out and turning more grey, eyes clouding over, sensitive teeth, receding gums, infected gums, rashes, poor digestion, constipation, hypoglycemia, candida, insomnia, muscle spasms, nose bleeds, buzzing in the ears, hearing problems, mild vision problems, poor memory, confusion, fatigue, being cold all the time, and MCS. Good Path #4
2005 - age 43
These are problems I have yet to overcome:
But I am still on z*oloft and that probably is keeping me from progressing faster. 2007 - age 45 I'm still on z*oloft, so still have the same symptoms to overcome. My journey to wellness has been quite a rocky path, but here are a few things I have learned along the way. Updated July 2005
I believe processed food and medications are the major cause of MCS. Once
weakened by poor nutrition and toxic drugs, the body is much more susceptible to
the toxic chemicals the world throws our way. I believe this is why when exposed to the
same chemicals, once person will get terribly ill and the other will seem unaffected.
Man made chemicals in pesticides, cleaning potions, and personal care products Water is so necessary for the cells of the body to function properly. If the body does not get enough pure water, the bodily fluids, urine, blood, lymph, etc., become extremely concentrated and toxic. If too much is consumed, the fluids will become too diluted and weakness will result. Water is best taken 30 minutes before meals or 1-2 hours after a meal. Water with meals will upset the digestion. It is also best to drink it room temperature. The body will have to heat up cold water and cool off piping hot teas. This will weaken the body. Water is also necessary for good bowel movements. More information of the healing power of water can be found in this book: Your Body's Many Cries for Water .
In June 2004, I started to drink
Mountain Valley Spring Water
in glass bottles, instead of filtered water from
BYOB Water Stores
. I think Mountain Valley Spring Water tastes great! The first few days, it was like I could
not get enough of this water. It was like this was what my body was looking for all along
and it was making up for lost time. But I did level off after a while and now drink normal amount.
The same thing happened to my husband. He drank a lot of it at first too. But now he thinks
the water tastes too minerally for him and went back to the filtered water. I think this is common.
Deficient people need minerally water and the more robust folks need the the cleansing
qualities of filtered water.
May 2008 Here are some articles about the dangers of drinking distilled water:
Early Death Comes from Drinking Distilled Water
Personlly, I think even filtered water is depleting to the body. Even my husband, who used to like BYOB filtered water, is now drinking tap water. I have been told that filtered water is dead. Back in 1997 I brought two bottles of water to be muscle tested at my kinesiologist. I did not label (except with a 1 and a 2 so I knew which was which) either bottle so he would not know which was which. I did not look while he tested so I did not know either. The highly filtered BYOB water tested weak for me, and the tap water tested strong. I was not going to drink "Tap" water! So I contunued to drink the empty water. I should have listened to my body, and stopped drinking the filtered water. In 1999, I began to drink "Rain fresh" brand water, after I tasted it my accupuncturist. It is reverse osmosis water with added oxygen, so still an empty dea water. We switched to mountain valley spring water, after we moved and rain fresh was no longer available. The water tastes great! It may take a while for my body to remineralize after 7 years of drinking dead water. The earth provides water with the minerals a body needs, so I believe that is the best way to drink it. It is too bad that most don't have access to fresh mountain streams. If you can not afford spring water, please add a touch of sea salt to your water so you can at least be getting some electrolytes when you drink. Add the salt according to taste, your body will tell your when it is the right amount. Salted water has a softer feel in my mouth. I like it a lot better. Given a choice, my dog prefers rain water, to tap, filtered or even spring water. Animals are usually wiser than we are. My potted plants and veggie garden also prefers rain water. Maybe one day I will take my dog's advice and get some rain barrels.
Country Water Action: Thailand Promoting Rainwater Harvesting, Preserving Rainwater Jar Culture
Recently, I discovered that I was not getting enough water. I thought that I was drinking plenty of water, but the only thing it seemed to acomplish was to make me pee. So I drank less, to see if I felt less tired and weak. I felt terrible. So I tried something else. Instead of drinking a full glass of water at a time when I felt thirsty, I drink 1/2 a glass every 1/2 hour. Oh my gosh, all the differnece in the world. Now, I digest my food way better and I am not running to the bathroom all the time. I think drinking too much at once was upseting my electrolyte balance. My kidneys were very busy dumping water to make things right again, and I was still dehydrated. I found if I drink 2 cups on rising (sleep is dehydrating, and so is taking a bath), then I drink 1/2 cup of water every half hour, I feel the best. Also, I add 1/4 teaspoons of sea salt to each 4 cup pitcher. I read in these articles
summary of the book: Your Body's Many Cries For Water
that salt and water are needed to make Hydrochloric acid (HCL) for the body to make HCL, which is needed for digestion. I avoid drinking for at least 1 hour after meals so that HCL is not diluted. After supper, I only drink about 1/8 a cup around 7 pm, because I found it is hard on my kidneys to drink at night. Each person needs a different amount of water to to feel well, so use your own body as a guide. When the weather is hot, or I am more active, I drink more water than usual. When I garden, I get so tired and sometimes | |