This article follows my last article, entitled The Wake Up Call. That was the very opening section of my upcoming book, The Vitality Code.
Vitality Secret #1: Get to the cause(s), heal your body
I now view eczema as a gift, like a warning like on the car dashboard, telling me my body is out of balance and requires attention. Without the warning light (symptom), my body would be degenerating without my knowing, and I’d likely never be on this incredible path discovering my superhuman abilities and our potential as humans.
For example, I would never know that we can reverse engineer any illness by understanding principles of the body electric. Or that we can heal our bodies with thought and emotion. Or how we can tap into a quantum world to enable rapid healing and even influence our world outside of our physical bodies by understanding energy. That is the exciting part to all of this! It’s almost like a reward!
Many people with eczema take steroid creams, use harmful prescription moisturizers, and consume endless rounds of antibiotics, unknowingly causing more and more harm to their bodies. They might reach the age of 60 having suffered their whole lives. And then for some unknown reason they might sit an ayahuasca ceremony and have some kind of an epiphany, or even what feels like an “awakening,” that inspires them to make some radical changes in their life. This enables them to heal from within and eradicate the illness or symptoms. (I’m not suggesting you sit in an ayahuasca ceremony, it was just an example of what can take place.) When you address what is causing your illness, and replenish your body with its essential cell fuels, the body can heal itself. It is always healing and striving for balance – for homeostasis.
I had another “Aha! moment” or epiphany in 2015. This was a tough year for me. I lost three friends to cancer. Similar to my intuition around my father’s stroke, I intuited that none of my three friends had to die, and that cancer was not what we are told that it is. If strokes and heart disease are avoidable, and every chronic illness (including cancer) is a result of chronic inflammation, and chronic inflammation is reversible, surely it would make sense that cancer is also a symptom of chronic inflammation, and thus, reversible?
I embarked upon another investigation. I was furious, and saddened. But what came out of it was freeing. It reminds me of the famous quote:
“The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off.” — Gloria Steinem.
For me, the latter part of that is an understatement. Discovering the truth (or what I consider to be the truth) put me into a rage because I had lost three friends. Having said that, I would like to say that I used this energy for good to fuel my passion behind sharing this valuable information with the world. I created a lot of content, and did my best to do it from a place of love, to not fear-monger and be solution-oriented. I discovered that people all over the world are reversing advanced and often “terminal” cancers, with no medical intervention. The human body is a magnificently designed, self-healing machine. Why don’t we all know this? The loss of three friends in 2015 led me to Epiphany #2.
Epiphany #2: The Origins of the Modern Medical Industry
Epiphany #2 was discovering the “root cause” of the foundations on which the conventional, modern medical system was built 111 years ago. I stopped blaming my doctor for not being able to help me for thirty years, and my dad’s doctor for not helping him prevent his stroke, immediately. I realized that it’s really not up to my doctor to keep me healthy anyway — that is my responsibility. Nothing is more empowering than being one’s own personal best health advocate.
I began to get particularly curious in my teenage years about why I would always leave my doctor’s office with the same prescription. Twenty years later, I discovered not only the underlying cause of my eczema and how to reverse it very quickly, but also the root cause of why my doctor kept on prescribing the same symptom-masking treatments visit after visit.
It is known that medical professionals receive very little nutrition training. I uncovered the origins of the training provided to conventionally trained medical professionals. This includes oncologists who specialize in treating cancer patients.
I feel that my passion for wellness, Vitality, and healing began in my teenage years as I began to get increasingly curious — maybe this can be considered a slow and gradual wake-up call?
I felt the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle all coming together. These two epiphanies jolted me out of the conventional paradigm of Western “Medicine” — and life in general. I started to question not only the world of medicine and Big Pharma, but other industries, like Big Tech, fossil fuels, how the government is influenced by lobbying from various industries, and the role of mainstream news media in creating a narrative — and beyond.
The majority of people I’ve interviewed who have reversed an “incurable” illness holistically are grateful for having experienced it — because of what happened next. It caused them to examine every angle of their life — what they were eating, if they were active or sedentary, their environment (internal and external), their emotional health, their thoughts and beliefs, their traumas, relationships that negatively impacted their lives, their job or work, their life’s purpose, how they were spending their time…and ultimately their connection to something far greater than themselves.
As we address the Four Pillars of Vitality, alongside your healing and newfound Vitality, you will likely experience an expansion of your awareness of our potential as human beings.
Stop Surviving, Start Thriving
“The way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself.” — Cornelius Plantinga, theologian
A few years ago, I asked my dad about his asthma. He said it started when he was 12 and he was asked to speak in front of a massive audience without any warning or preparation. When his asthma began, his doctor prescribed a localized steroid inhaler that my father has used ever since. He was never told that his asthma was reversible. In the Western medication community, asthma is not reversible. In the holistic and healing community, it is reversible. My father followed the Western Medication advice, and, thus, did not believe it was reversible.
Imagine living your whole life with the understanding you have a genetic “disease” and that your only solution is a drug, and then finding out decades later you didn’t have to suffer for that duration of time. A wave of Medicine is swiftly emerging called Functional Medicine, a discipline in which doctors are educated to get to the cause of your symptoms, instead of treatment with drugs, and to balance the body as holistically as they can. Getting to the cause is not limited to Functional Medicine — it is also practiced in Naturopathic Medicine and other Holistic Medicine practices.
One of my favorite Functional Medicine doctors is Dr, Amy Myers. I read her book, The Autoimmune Solution, a year or so after I first published The Vitality Secret, and I was happy to see that our findings and our teachings were aligned. I updated The Vitality Secret to reflect her teachings on Leaky Gut and Gut Health.
Dr. Amy Myers was conventionally trained in Western Medicine. During her training, she developed Graves Disease, which is the name given to an overactive thyroid. The standard of care in Western medicine for Graves Disease consists of three options. The first option is to prescribe drugs that interfere with thyroid hormone production, which come with disastrous side effects. The next option is to destroy the thyroid cells with radioactive iodine, and the last option is to surgically remove the thyroid. Consequently, the last two options require prescription of thyroid hormonal medication for the remainder of your life.
The Western Medicine standard of care was all Dr. Myers was familiar with at the time (and trained in), so she followed that advice, had her thyroid destroyed, and is now taking hormonal thyroid medication. A few years after she qualified in Western Medicine, she discovered how limited her training was with regard to the treatment of chronic illness and disease. It was clearly biased toward prescription drugs and surgery, which simply did not work. Her patients were getting sicker so Dr. Myers decided to retrain in Functional Medicine.
Dr. Myers quickly discovered that she didn’t have to destroy her thyroid. Instead, she needed to heal her gut, as gut health has a direct impact on the thyroid — and every other organ in the body. She discovered that Graves was a result of Leaky Gut. The gut lining is a semi-permeable membrane that is designed to allow micronutrients to pass through/be absorbed. When it becomes ”leaky,” the gut lining is effectively torn, and undigested food particles and proteins, medications, and other toxins pass through the gut lining, causing a reaction from the immune system, which I call your “army of defenders.” When these “foreign invaders” enter the bloodstream, the immune system does not recognise them, and it goes into high alert, leading to an inflammatory response.
With autoimmune conditions such as Graves, Crohn’s Disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Type-1 diabetes (when developed in life), leaky gut causes your immune system to attack your own cells and tissues. In the case of Graves, the thyroid is “attacked.” In Type-1 diabetes, the pancreas is attacked. In multiple sclerosis, the brain is attacked. In rheumatoid arthritis, your joints are attacked. In psoriasis, the skin is attacked.
The great news is that leaky gut can be rectified, and systemic chronic inflammation can be minimized and eradicated. No drugs can do this (and often actually cause it). A number of people I’ve interviewed have reversed autoimmune conditions. Dr. Amy Myers devotes her life to helping others reverse autoimmune conditions. She might not be able to reverse the damage done to her thyroid, but she can help others avoid that unnecessary surgery and inspire them to lead a life rich in Vitality.
I noticed profound shifts in my skin when I paid attention to my diet and gut health, but eczema wasn’t solely the result of poor food choices. My thoughts and emotions played a pivotal role. Habitual scratching, my go-to mechanism in times of stress, became addictive and completely unconscious. I had to reprogram my mind to stop scratching habitually and to calm my nervous system. And I still had to reach the ultimate cause..
Stay tuned for the next update. Head to https://VitalitySecret.com/book to be notified of its release.