I grew up on a Caribbean island.
Haiti. Dad is a pilot. Mom is a teacher. Thus, many of the pictures you will see were taken there. I've always been extremely active. Basketball. Volleyball. Soccer. Weight lifting. Running. However, that all changed when one morning I woke up to... |
...a weakened right leg.
Strangest. Feeling. Ever. I was totally confused. Then my left leg went weak -- to the same degree of my right leg. Needless to say, I was terrified. Strange sensations all over my body. I had work in an hour, so I swung my legs across the bed and labored towards the bathroom, all the while afraid that my legs would completely give out. While in the shower, I suddenly felt my arms get weak too! What was happening?! I ended up going to work. Tutoring a student from Asia. But I felt worse and worse during the whole session. Suddenly, I was light-headed. Couldn't think. Couldn't process information. Discreetly, I wrote my brother's phone number on a scrap piece of paper so that, in case of emergency, my student could call him to come and get me...just in case I passed out. Or worse. |
Did I just have a stroke?!
No. Couldn't be. Doesn't that usually affect one side or the other? And why is this progressive?? WHAT'S GOING ON!? So many thoughts ran through my head. Soon after, I ended up in the ER. Something was definitely wrong. Very wrong. And thus began the longgg road of seeing doctor after doctor after doctor. CT scan with contrast = perfect. MRI with contrast = perfect. $2,000 Blood test = perfect. But I was NOT perfect! Not by any means. I was slowly feeling worse and worse all the time. My symptoms declined at roughly the same rate every day. (BTW, I was ignorant at the time, I didn't know that the blood test didn't look for everything in the blood. Even though it was a $2,000 test! The doctors didn't tell me that I needed to get a specialized B12 test. Grrr.) |
In total, I saw nearly 30 doctors.
Medical doctors. Nurses. Nurse practitioners. Chiropractors. Naturopaths.
None of them told me about a potential vitamin B12 deficiency.
None.
This is what worries me about the current health system.
Most illnesses come from TOXICITY or DEFICIENCY.
Yet doctors want to prescribe steroids and other medications before taking their time
to see what is the root cause of their patient's symptoms.
At least that was my experience.
Doctors are good people.
It's just the system that's messed up.
In my opinion.
Anyways, my symptoms were continuing to worsen.
And after seeing 30 doctors and getting NOWHERE, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
I never, EVER, would have thought that
I would do some of the things I was about to do...
Medical doctors. Nurses. Nurse practitioners. Chiropractors. Naturopaths.
None of them told me about a potential vitamin B12 deficiency.
None.
This is what worries me about the current health system.
Most illnesses come from TOXICITY or DEFICIENCY.
Yet doctors want to prescribe steroids and other medications before taking their time
to see what is the root cause of their patient's symptoms.
At least that was my experience.
Doctors are good people.
It's just the system that's messed up.
In my opinion.
Anyways, my symptoms were continuing to worsen.
And after seeing 30 doctors and getting NOWHERE, I decided to take matters into my own hands.
I never, EVER, would have thought that
I would do some of the things I was about to do...
Side note: I also broke my elbow in two places during this whole ordeal.
As pictured above.
I didn't know how much longer I would be able to stand/walk,
so I wanted to go roller skating with some friends, since that might be the last time I could ever do it.
Oops.
Back to my story.
Seeing that I was getting nowhere with doctors...
...and all they did was see me for 3 minutes and then quickly see me out the door...
I stopped with doctors altogether.
My mental processing and memory was getting bad. Really bad.
At one point I was afraid I wouldn't even remember my brother's name.
I was having a hard time recalling things that I knew I KNEW!
So aggravating!
I was also constantly dizzy.
The room was always spinning.
My vision was all wobble-wobble-wobble.
I was scared.
I researched fasting.
Fasting has HUGE benefits and is extremely healing for the body if done properly.
So I gave it a try.
I wanted to reset my body.
I did several fasts.
3 days.
5 days.
10 days.
11 days.
32 days.
During one of the fasts, on day two, my dizziness suddenly lifted!
The room stopped spinning.
I could think again.
My thought processing became clearer and stronger with every passing day.
Fasting is great!
However, my nerves kept getting worse.
As pictured above.
I didn't know how much longer I would be able to stand/walk,
so I wanted to go roller skating with some friends, since that might be the last time I could ever do it.
Oops.
Back to my story.
Seeing that I was getting nowhere with doctors...
...and all they did was see me for 3 minutes and then quickly see me out the door...
I stopped with doctors altogether.
My mental processing and memory was getting bad. Really bad.
At one point I was afraid I wouldn't even remember my brother's name.
I was having a hard time recalling things that I knew I KNEW!
So aggravating!
I was also constantly dizzy.
The room was always spinning.
My vision was all wobble-wobble-wobble.
I was scared.
I researched fasting.
Fasting has HUGE benefits and is extremely healing for the body if done properly.
So I gave it a try.
I wanted to reset my body.
I did several fasts.
3 days.
5 days.
10 days.
11 days.
32 days.
During one of the fasts, on day two, my dizziness suddenly lifted!
The room stopped spinning.
I could think again.
My thought processing became clearer and stronger with every passing day.
Fasting is great!
However, my nerves kept getting worse.
I read about people with nerve damage (Multiple Sclerosis in particular) who have had success with zappers.
So I tried that.
Spent a couple hundred $$$ on a machine.
Nothing.
Didn't work for me.
My next thought was that I had a virus embedding itself in my nerve tissues.
So I loaded up on anti-virals.
"Loaded up" is an understatement.
I ate cloves upon cloves of garlic (combined with honey).
I did colloidal silver IV's.
I bought a ton of antiviral herbs and went crazy making teas -- soaking the herbs in glass jars and brewing them out in the sun.
I reeked of garlic.
Spent hundreds of dollars on colloidal silver.
Almost vomited every time I drank an antiviral herbal tea.
I made big jars of tea. Those suckers were huge!
But nothing was happening.
Still got worse.
Incrementally.
Day by day.
Until B12...
So I tried that.
Spent a couple hundred $$$ on a machine.
Nothing.
Didn't work for me.
My next thought was that I had a virus embedding itself in my nerve tissues.
So I loaded up on anti-virals.
"Loaded up" is an understatement.
I ate cloves upon cloves of garlic (combined with honey).
I did colloidal silver IV's.
I bought a ton of antiviral herbs and went crazy making teas -- soaking the herbs in glass jars and brewing them out in the sun.
I reeked of garlic.
Spent hundreds of dollars on colloidal silver.
Almost vomited every time I drank an antiviral herbal tea.
I made big jars of tea. Those suckers were huge!
But nothing was happening.
Still got worse.
Incrementally.
Day by day.
Until B12...
I was eating lunch with a friend one day and he said to me, "Have you considered B12?"
"B12? As in the vitamin?"
"Yeah. Have you tried it?"
"Sorry bro, there's no way I'm vitamin deficient. I eat perfectly healthy. I've covered all my bases."
"There was a time when I had similar symptoms as you. Not to the same degree, but the same type nonetheless. I got a specific blood test and I was indeed deficient in vitamin B12. I started on some tablets and got some injections and my symptoms went away. It's worth looking into."
No way.
It couldn't be that simple.
I was sure I had ALS or MS or Parkinson's or some complicated neurological disorder by this point.
No way was there a simple fix.
But I was desperate.
So I tried.
I got a bottle of sublingual vitamin B12 pills.
And then a miracle happened...
My symptoms stopped declining!!!!!!
Say what?!
By DAY 4 of being on the sublingual tablets, my symptoms stopped declining.
Now they were holding steady.
Improving, even. But barely.
This was too good to be true!
How could it just be a simple B12 deficiency?!
Suddenly, I became very angry.
Angry with the 30 doctors who ran all these EXPENSIVE and complicated tests yet told me NOTHING about vitamins.
Angry at the whole medical system.
Angry at all the time wasted.
Angry that I was now in huge debt even though it was such a simple thing to fix.
I couldn't believe it.
Weeks passed by.
The tablets helped, but didn't do much past that.
I didn't improve much anymore even though I felt like my body could get so much better.
Apparently my stomach could not absorb vitamin B12.
And while the sublingual route was better, it still wasn't the most effective thing.
Not by a long shot.
Thus, needles.
Oh great.
Now I have to stab myself all the time.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Ain't nobody got bravery for that.
How am I supposed to stick a sharp object into my body???
It's not possible.
It's scary even when a trained professional does it.
So how the heck am I supposed to do it?
Nope.
No way.
Not doing it.
But there's also NO WAY I'm living with these symptoms.
I just want to be better.
I want to run again.
Play sports again.
Work again.
Be normal.
Not worry anymore.
I want to live again.
It's decided then.
Out come the needles.
Out comes the B12 vial with pure methylcobalamin.
And. Here. We. Go.
Breathe...1...2...3...
...4...
OK.
Breathe again...
1...2...
STICK!
Ah!!!
Wait. What??!
That was supposed to hurt.
Why didn't that hurt?!
I just stabbed myself with a sharp object -- how did that NOT hurt???
OK, this isn't so hard.
And that's all it took. I was feeling much better within a day. I continually improved. Extremely quickly, actually.
I started working out again.
Playing sports.
Working.
Coaching.
Teaching.
I have my life back.
And now I want to help you take your life back.
This vitamin B12 has HEALED THOUSANDS of people!
Let's do this!
"B12? As in the vitamin?"
"Yeah. Have you tried it?"
"Sorry bro, there's no way I'm vitamin deficient. I eat perfectly healthy. I've covered all my bases."
"There was a time when I had similar symptoms as you. Not to the same degree, but the same type nonetheless. I got a specific blood test and I was indeed deficient in vitamin B12. I started on some tablets and got some injections and my symptoms went away. It's worth looking into."
No way.
It couldn't be that simple.
I was sure I had ALS or MS or Parkinson's or some complicated neurological disorder by this point.
No way was there a simple fix.
But I was desperate.
So I tried.
I got a bottle of sublingual vitamin B12 pills.
And then a miracle happened...
My symptoms stopped declining!!!!!!
Say what?!
By DAY 4 of being on the sublingual tablets, my symptoms stopped declining.
Now they were holding steady.
Improving, even. But barely.
This was too good to be true!
How could it just be a simple B12 deficiency?!
Suddenly, I became very angry.
Angry with the 30 doctors who ran all these EXPENSIVE and complicated tests yet told me NOTHING about vitamins.
Angry at the whole medical system.
Angry at all the time wasted.
Angry that I was now in huge debt even though it was such a simple thing to fix.
I couldn't believe it.
Weeks passed by.
The tablets helped, but didn't do much past that.
I didn't improve much anymore even though I felt like my body could get so much better.
Apparently my stomach could not absorb vitamin B12.
And while the sublingual route was better, it still wasn't the most effective thing.
Not by a long shot.
Thus, needles.
Oh great.
Now I have to stab myself all the time.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Ain't nobody got bravery for that.
How am I supposed to stick a sharp object into my body???
It's not possible.
It's scary even when a trained professional does it.
So how the heck am I supposed to do it?
Nope.
No way.
Not doing it.
But there's also NO WAY I'm living with these symptoms.
I just want to be better.
I want to run again.
Play sports again.
Work again.
Be normal.
Not worry anymore.
I want to live again.
It's decided then.
Out come the needles.
Out comes the B12 vial with pure methylcobalamin.
And. Here. We. Go.
Breathe...1...2...3...
...4...
OK.
Breathe again...
1...2...
STICK!
Ah!!!
Wait. What??!
That was supposed to hurt.
Why didn't that hurt?!
I just stabbed myself with a sharp object -- how did that NOT hurt???
OK, this isn't so hard.
And that's all it took. I was feeling much better within a day. I continually improved. Extremely quickly, actually.
I started working out again.
Playing sports.
Working.
Coaching.
Teaching.
I have my life back.
And now I want to help you take your life back.
This vitamin B12 has HEALED THOUSANDS of people!
Let's do this!