Everything was NOT “within normal range”
A doctor’s odyssey from near-starvation, multiple chemical sensitivities and anaphylactic shock to wellness . . . Naturally.
by Gloria Gilbčre, N.D., D.A.Hom., Ph.D.
IMAGINE—AN ACCIDENT NEARLY TAKES YOUR
LIFE. THE DRUGS THAT SAVED YOUR LIFE
ALMOST TOOK YOUR LIFE AND LEFT YOU WITH
the subsequent after effects diagnosed as
fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic
insomnia, leaky gut syndrome and multiple
chemical sensitivities. You struggle and keep
looking to your physicians for answers but all
they can offer is more prescription drugs for
muscle pain and spasms, anti-depressants and
sleeping pills. You know that if one more medical
doctor tells you “everything is within
normal range” someone is going to get hurt.
You now realize you’re in the same vicious cycle
of “symptom-care” as so many of your clients.
IMAGINE—Your body is now resisting all food
and supplements—over a period of three
months you lose 52 pounds and you become
allergic to everything in your environment.
You suddenly react to familiar cosmetics
you’ve used for years, other people’s perfumes
or anything fragranced, the exhaust of cars on
the road, new paving, refueling your car, the
newer furnishings and rugs in your home and
office. Even the simple act of entering a store
to buy groceries or being in the same office as
a new computer or copier all trigger the same
life-threatening, terrifying response. Just as
serious are the unsuspecting odors in your
vicinity because although you’re not sure what
it is, it doesn’t matter. It still causes an allergic
reaction. You know anaphylactic shock can
kill; will the next allergic attack be your last?
IMAGINE—Your entire life and career are
staring you in the face. You remember all the
clients you’ve consulted with and the horror
stories of how their lives, and those of their
loved ones, were shattered. You search for
healthy, natural products and locate several
nutritional items that facilitate reduction of
your symptoms and eventually your recovery.
People who know you, and watched your
decline, now see your dramatic improvement
and ask what you did to conquer the invisible
illnesses that nearly took your life.
This is not science fiction. It is a life, my
life. This is my odyssey from pain and near
starvation to recovery. It has been a long, arduous road but a journey well worth it for
many reasons.
Just as one specific incident did not cause
my invisible illnesses, one specific product or
therapy didn’t provide all the answers.
However, I credit one group of products for
speeding my recovery and doing so without
the allergic reactions experienced by previously
consumed nutritional supplementation.
HEALING—With a Lot of Help From
My Friends, Four-legged Ones That Is
The Magic of Goat Milk
In 1998, at the peak of my illness, I resorted to
a diet of freshly juiced organic carrots, apples,
ginger, broccoli and brown rice (a diet for surviving,
not rebuilding). Yes, I was avoiding
allergic reactions; however, I lost my muscle
tone and could not rebuild without minerals,
electrolytes, protein and probiotics. All animal
protein I tried caused the same reactions.
However, I remembered reading a book in
1994 by the late Dr. Bernard Jensen, a world
renowned nutritionist, and how milk supplied
by a goat (his goat’s name was Star) literally
saved his life. I then discovered a local source
for fresh goat milk and other goat milk products
and was pleasantly surprised that my body
not only tolerated them but I also assimilated
the nutrients with ease. The immediate health
benefits were remarkable. Dr. Jensen was right!
Nature’s Prescription Milk:
Goat’s milk is most like human milk in composition
and is praised because it is readily
digestible. Our bodies can digest goat’s milk in
just 20 minutes; conversely, it takes two to
three hours to digest cow’s milk. Goat’s milk is
nutritionally balanced to nourish a kid (baby
goat) weight of six to nine pounds, about the
same as that of a human baby. Conversely, a
dairy cow is designed to produce, maintain and
fulfill growth needs of one to two baby calves.
Like other milk-producing animals, the
milk consistency (molecular structure) is set
up by nature to sustain life of its offspring—
the larger the animal the thicker and larger fat
and protein molecules. Milk production from
cows, provided by nature, is approximately 20–30 pounds of milk per day. Modern day
cow milk production, with the injection of
bovine growth hormone during lactation, arti-
ficially increased production to approximately
80 pounds of milk per day. This produces a
stressed animal and milk that is not readily
accepted by human digestive systems.
The high nutritional quality and the
greater ease of digestion of goat milk is what
make it so effective in the prevention or
reversal (as in my case) of disease. The secret
lies in its dual natural ability to be halfcleansing
and half-building. Additionally, goat
milk protein molecules are one-fifth smaller
than those of cow milk protein, a must for a
compromised digestive system and liver.
Currently I use and recommend products
made from goat’s milk produced in farms
owned by a family business in Chehalis,
Washington. They are not new at this; they’ve
specialized in quality goat milk products since
1928. Their goats are never fed anything that
contains pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics or
growth hormones, thus insuring the integrity
of these magnificent animals’ milk.
Goat’s milk contains a unique essential balance
of vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates,
enzymes and fats—it is one of the few
whole foods that is actually able to sustain life.
Some doctors (and I’m one of them) call goat’s
milk and goat milk products “prescription
milk.” It has gained this reputation because
doctors and nutritionists worldwide prescribe
it for everything from infant colic to advanced
degenerative diseases. Dr. William Lee Secor, a
medical doctor from Kerrville, Texas, wrote: “I
am a surgeon, restricting my practice to surgery,
but since discovering the value of goat
milk in the treatment of stomach and intestinal
ulcers, I have not operated on a single
ulcer case and this covers a period of more than
a dozen years.”
Through my personal experience, research
and in my practice, I have found that goat’s
milk assists in the healing of certain diseases,
specifically ulcers, arthritis, rheumatism, IBS,
Crohn’s disease, fibromyalgia, leaky gut
syndrome, anxiety disorders, anorexia, asthma,
food allergies and many other chronic
disorders.
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