an awesome one!

I saw my naturopath last week and learned some very interesting and helpful things. First, though, she was amazed at how far my healing has come! So many doctors over the years have accused me of being a hypochondriac and wanting to be sick when I wasn’t that to hear her tell me I have a very strong constitution and clearly my body wants to be well was validating beyond belief!  She commented that as soon as my body gets the nutrients it needs it just runs with it and starts putting them to use to get me better! She said I’m going to not even know the old me in a month or two

So, here’s what’s going on:

I have sluggish thyroid. Not hypothyroid, but numbers too close for her comfort. She wants them higher, so I’m taking bovine thyroid supplement.  Thytrophin PMG.

She believes the sluggish thyroid is due to my adrenals still being exhausted. She forgot to tell me to not take the licort (liquid cortisol) when I did the cortisol 24 hour test but she’s glad because the results were shocking to her! She said someone on cortisol is supposed to have all numbers in the 1000’s all four times of the test.  I did the test *on* cortisol, and my numbers were:

5am  11

11am  1488

7pm  10

11pm  2

She was shocked. She said it’s clear I have a window of time that goes *maybe* 9am to between 1 and 3pm and I told her that her putting me on cortisol expanded that window. It used to be 10am to Noon! So now I’m taking the licort early morning when I wake up and again at 3pm. This is supposed to try and expand the time of day that I have energy. So for it’s helping a lot!

I am insulin resistant.  She believes that treating the thyroid and adrenals will solve this and said I should see the results through notable weight loss within a month. She said if I don’t see weight loss within a month she will put me on the supplement she has for insulin resistance, but wants to try the not-expensive-supplement approach first

All of my vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, omegas . . . all good. EXCEPT . . . B5.  The only people who show B5 deficiencies are people who are literally starving–concentration camp survivors and people in 3rd world countries!  She believes it’s because of the combination of my DI and celiac–that they stripped my body of all nutrients for so long that I developed B5 deficiency. That my numbers are good now for everything else because I’m taking supplements, but that the B5 is reflecting the long-term lack of nutrients. I’m taking specific supplements for it.

So, that’s the dealio   I’m still taking the liver cleanse twice daily to help clean it out and get it working again and I’m still doing the digestive enzymes and apple cider vinegar to help digest my food. And I’m feeling stronger and better daily.

I’d heard everything from it was corny to it was wonderful and changed my life.  I had to see it.  And I’m glad I did because it was all of the above!

Yes, you have to get through the first 30 minutes of cheese and corn.  I still can’t put my finger on what it is about Christian productions and it’s my same criticism of Bibleman, which my children love. It’s a combination of overacted, overplayed, bad dialogue . . . do most Christians really talk so strangely?  I told Bill I’m so glad our congregation doesn’t talk weird LOL  There is just something about Kirk Cameron doing a really believable “angry” and yelling, “you are a bitter . . . WOMAN” LOL  Even a gutteral lack of word would have been more believable.  People just don’t fight like that.

But as the movie got going and the momentum of the situation took over and drove itself I have to say most of the scenes were believable and good–still often corny, but good.  Though the doctor interest was really awful.  She was desparate to fall for what he was offering.

After his true conversion and real commitment to the changes he was embracing things really took a turn, though. Maybe it was about being himself more at that point.  Bill loved that we didn’t see the typical “he got saved and everything got perfect” lie that is so often propagated.  Instead we saw God empower and equip him to make the tough but necessary changes.  When Torah expresses, “Because of me you will . . . ” it’s talking about the change that we undergo when He is in our lives and guiding us *and* we are following.

By the end we had both bawled at some scenes and I won’t share the conversation we had after but there was something about seeing the reality of so many of the things Bill has heard me say over and over, but coming from another source and from a guy’s perspective, that really impacted my husband.  He got it in a different way and we had a wonderful discussion about some things we’ve been struggling with ourselves.

Overall I would have to recommend it. It’s inspiring.  Just bring some crackers to get through that beginning