One Farmer’s Story of Victory Over Farmer’s Lung Disease and more…

Getting Farmer’s Lung in 1991 was definitely not part of David’s dairy farming plans for the future when we first took over his Dad’s dairy farm in 1983.  As a matter of fact, Farmer’s Lung cut short those plans very quickly and started his downward spiral of health issues.

Auction of farm equipment 2001

It all started while uncovering the plastic in a corn silo.  He inhaled and ingested a LOT of black corn mold.  He came down from the silo disorientated, coughing, sweating profusely, had a terrible headache and had flu-like symptoms.

Little did we know at that time, the mold and it’s mycotoxins would have an absolute devastating effect on his body.

That started our MERRY-GO-ROUND experience.

Along with being diagnosed with Farmer’s Lung Disease, over the next 13 years he developed swollen, sore feet and ankles, red patches wherever he sweat, he cleared his throat of phlegm every 15 to 20 minutes and had a problem with erectile dysfunction.  He started having pre-hypertension and the pain in his joints got worse.

His loud snoring became a marital and family problem.  Sometimes I slept on the couch.  Sometimes he did.  You could hear his snoring from every room in the house and even the guys at deer camp threw rolled up socks at him to try to stop the noise.  That’s when he knew his snoring was bad.

At night he would stop breathing and gasp for air.  That really scared me!  I would always jump at the sound.  It was determined he had severe sleep apnea by having a sleep test done at the local hospital.  He had 73 episodes an hour. The sleep apnea and snoring was so awful it was affecting our relationship.

All these things kept us on the constant cycle of the Merry-Go-Round.

We went to the doctors.  And we went back…and back…and back.  One of the antibiotics he took for the constant cough and Farmer’s Lung even caused David to have pain in his hip which he then had for years.  It was an experimental drug that was pulled off of the market about 3 months after David quit taking it.  But it had left its mark.

We BOTH wanted off the Merry-Go-Round.  Where were the answers to our many health questions?

I was determined to look for answers instead of relying on what we were being told by medical professionals. We were told “You’re getting older, you’ll just have to accept it”, “There’s nothing more we can do, you’ll just have to deal with it”, “Well, we can try this prescription and if that doesn’t do anything we can try another prescription.” These statements were no longer acceptable answers for me. Besides, have you really looked at the side effects of prescription medicines? I mean really looked? The side effects are worse than the problem! David had experienced that!

Even so, David was willing to accept their advice.  After all, we were now approaching our 50’s. I told David that it was not normal to wake up numerous times in a night. He’d reply, “But it’s normal for me.” Well, what’s normal isn’t necessarily natural.

I kept searching. Truly there had to be an answer. But we weren’t getting any solutions from conventional medicine!

Then, I came across a book called The Fungus Link that had a two week diet plan.  The premise of the book is to starve the mold that’s in the body.  Because mold feeds on sugar the diet consists of no processed food, nothing refined or white, nothing artificial, nothing overly sweet, just real food for two weeks. My husband, always skeptical, thought I was off the wall for suggesting we try this natural approach to address his many health issues. David already thought we were eating “healthy”. This seemed ridiculous!

But, if we were going to try this diet he wanted to do it “all the way”.

Could it really be this SIMPLE?

How could something so simple be so difficult? Reducing or eliminating foods that we had been eating for years was hard. But, we kept coming back to the phrase, “It’s only two weeks out of our lives. We can do this”.

And we did.

We stuck by the protocol to the letter. What we had discovered at the end of these two weeks was unbelievable! How could something this simple be so profound?

David was now able to sleep through the night, no gasping for air, no rashes, no cough, no sore feet, and the pain in his joints were greatly reduced and the Farmer’s Lung disappeared!!

My husband was a believer and I was simply in awe.

We had gotten our lives and our relationship back!!

In general, we had discovered just how important the right nutrition is to the body and to health.

Now, I really dug in and did a mountain load of research. I took an anatomy and physiology class. I read tons of books and searched the internet. Why did the right fuel have such an impact on our health?

I found out, it’s like putting the wrong fuel in your car. The car will not run smoothly or at all if you put incorrect or poor quality fuel in the tank.  If you continually put the wrong fuel in the tank you will be going to the repair shop.  Again…and again…and again.

My question was, why weren’t doctors using the nutritional approach to overcome our health challenges? After all, if the medical experts knew it was that simple, why wouldn’t they tell you?

Well, doctors know how to practice medicine but they don’t know nutrition. The average doctor spends about 10,000 hours in the classroom to become a doctor, but, they spend about 8 hours on nutrition.

With nutrition, the answer is simple- the body finds balance with the right fuel. The answer was so easy to find but it required something difficult - a willingness to take control of your own health, commit to change and try something that conventional medicine wasn’t suggesting.

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But, even if we try to eat healthier, according to the online article “Taste, nutrients decline as size of crops grows” dated September 12, 2007 in seattlepi.com, the trend of growing produce and crops leading to a bigger yield for the producer is causing lower nutritional value. Some say the gutting of the nutritional value of what we eat could affect public health.

Agriculture’s “almost single-minded focus on increasing yields created a blind spot” in nutritional content, said Brian Halweil, author of the Organic Center’s report, “Still No Free Lunch.” “Of course we’re now capable of feeding more people, but what’s happened is that unintentionally, the nutritional value of our food supply has been eroded,” said Chuck Benbrook, chief scientist for the Organic Center.

We already knew that the right fuel for the body was life changing, even if we weren’t getting the maximum benefit from our food sources.

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WOW, what an improvement!

More positive changes occurred in David’s health after taking VIBE^® and occasionally, adding some other Eniva products.

By giving more nutritional support to his body, David gained more mobility, increased energy and was able to exercise more, lose weight and feel happier. This was what he had needed to take him over the edge to actually being “healthy”. Not just managing dis-ease, but being truly healthy and without any prescription medicines!

We wanted to tell the world!  But did they care?

We were blessed with these discoveries and wanted to share the good news with other people who were hurting. However, we found many people lack one thing - a willingness to take control of their own health, commit to change and try something that conventional medicine wasn’t suggesting.

Maybe they’re scared that their doctor will not be supportive and laugh at the idea. Or maybe they’re afraid of being scammed and their family will make fun of them. Maybe it’s because their medicines are a crutch and their doctor tells them they will need prescriptions for life.

Those people may never know the life changing answer for them. But, everyone makes their own decisions and lives or dies with the results of that decision. Changing your nutrition isn’t as drastic as surgery, chemicals or being reliant on a machine, although, it can have just as incredible life changing results.

What will your decision be?

How is your decision affecting the other people in your life? Are you willing to accept and live with what is “normal” for you now?

How is that working for you?

Or…

…do you want to have vibrant health and take your grandchildren hiking, play 18 holes of golf without a cart, play basketball with your kids or take a road trip on a motorcycle?

Start to take Control of Your HEALTH because you deserve to live an extra ordinary life!

Patti Olson
Christian Natural Health Coach

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