My Recovery from slow Death by Popular Products, and Why a Chemist Made His Own Soap

http://www.herobooks.com/present/present/htmThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~ Isaac Asimov

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
~Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, medical missionary

Our bombs, rockets and hand grenades made ear-splitting noises and huge clouds of smoke.

To entertain ourselves when we were poverty-stricken kids, my little brother and I mixed three chemicals found in foods, or are used in its processing, and filled cardboard tubes, tin cans and pipes with that mixture. We attached fuses to these containers and lit them in various places around the city.

No one asked us if we carried concealed fingernail clippers.  No one warned us that we could cause “collateral damage,” and mostly to ourselves.

Likewise, the greater the public silence and inaction about a public problem, the larger it can grow. Until it explodes to cause massive “collateral damage,” and mostly to ourselves. The latest example is the sudden blowup of the financial system that will be unwinding in most interesting ways for years to come.

Now, can you hear the silent agonizing screams from millions of children suffering “collateral damage” from toxic overloads that will be unwinding in most interesting ways for generations to come?

Now I will tell you about the comparative environmental backgrounds of my subject matter, the chemicals-health connection. Then I will elaborate about my own seemingly miraculous recovery from “collateral damage” by synthetic chemicals.

There seems to be a lot of ignorance, apathy, misunderstanding, controversy, cover-up and twisting of statistics about environmental illnesses (EI), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), post-traumatic stress disease (PTSD) and related issues. This one example of a 2007 survey of patients having self-reported symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and multiple chemical sensitivity implies that these illnesses are mostly “all in your head” psychological symptoms rather than having physical bases.

Here is a 2011 article relating to that survey. Its concluding statement is:

“(University of Toronto) also suggest that further studies be conducted on the relationship between functional somatic syndromes and other types of childhood abuse and stressors.”

This article again implies that the causes of these three illnesses are psychological in nature and are mostly caused by childhood abuse. If that were the case, why does this chronologically-old author, who was as severely traumatized  as anyone during his first two dozen years of life, now feel better overall than ever? Why do many of such studies ignore, or even try to discredit, the research findings and successes of alternative and integrative medicine?

My diverse and often very intensely traumatic experiences, in diverse backgrounds, help prove that commonly used chemicals can have very serious effects on health. Again, they also prove that MCS and other Human Collapse Diseases (HCD) are not “purely psychological” as some self-serving parties that profit from them persistently claim.

Even low level chemical exposures can indeed cause physically-induced diseases, and therefore, naturally also induce PTSD-like reactions from more than just worrying about them. However, if my years of world record intense traumas did give me PTSD, no one has ever diagnosed such, or was ever aware of it, since I never had mental health counseling. Even so, might my as yet undiagnosed PSTD eventually have caused me to have “all in your head” MCS many years later? I will reach a conclusion that may surprise you.

If there is a cause and effect between the two at all, at least in my case the cause and effect would have to be the other way around. Slowly-progressing, chemically-induced MCS did eventually cause me immense emotional, spiritual and physical stress later in life. If I still have. or might have, presumed PTSD, it would only be that I wake up almost every night. However, if I then read or work on my computer for about an hour, I feel very refreshed in the morning.

Let us consider the possible causes of other manifestations and illnesses: gluten sensitivity, chronic fatigue, obesity, Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, foggy thinking, autism spectrum diseases, allergies, addictions, attention deficit diseases, adrenal issues, diabetes, cancer, depression, aberrant or radicalized behavior, multiple chemical sensitivity, self-mutilation, Crohn’s, sick building syndrome, joint replacements, prescription and illegal drug use, learning disabilities, mold related illnesses, facial pasty spider vein complexion, …

What do these manifestations have in common? Are they somewhat or mostly caused by emotional or physical stresses? Here is the big clue: Almost none of them existed, while I was growing up in a very impoverished, malnourished  and extremely stressed-out society in post-World War II Germany. Hundreds of thousands of people starved or froze to death, and farmers fertilized their fields with untreated human sewage that they collected from the cesspools near homes. Even they did not have enough to eat. One farmer wrote to my father, who had requested food for my ailing grandfather in about 1948: “… because I, in spite of my pursuit of agriculture, receive food vouchers myself and have only as much to live on as I can get with them. And this is too little to live on, and too much to die on.”

Whatever few of the illnesses or manifestations listed above did exist, up to and through those times, occurred at a much lower rate than today. Was this because there were very few synthetic chemicals in use, not even perfumes, pesticides or deodorants.¹

Study the photo above of my middle school class on one of its yearly hikes into the neighboring mountains. Notice how happy and healthy everyone appears to be.  Also notice how healthy my mother, brother and I look, in spite of having to scavenge for food and fuel. There was also not a single overweight or obese person in any of the four schools that I attended. What does that say about genetic causes, and why were there so few teenage suicides?

In great contrast to those earlier times, during the last few dozen years everyone has had a growing number of daily exposures and ingestions of ever more kinds of synthetic chemicals. Most of them have never even been tested for health effects, especially not in combination. Their main longer-term effects on living creatures, including people, most likely being the weakening of immune systems, and genetic damage and mutations. And since there are going to be thousands of new chemicals developed in the future, their combined results, in the form of these illnesses, are leading to what can be classified as Human Collapse Disease (HCD).

Think about of how ubiquitous man-made chemicals must be. I had very good friend, may he rest in peace, who was a research chemist with over two-hundred some patents in his name, and who worked for a very large chemical company. About once a year his family made its own soap. When a mutual friend asked him why he did not just buy it, he said his research also included discovering what waste products from various industrial companies could be incorporated in consumer products.

One has to wonder how many different kinds of toxic derivatives might be in the thousands of consumer items in the marketplace.

Considering all of the above, one must conclude that these newer illnesses, and the rapidly growing number of affected people, are most likely caused by unnatural substances. Some of them frequently also suffer several of these illnesses simultaneously. Of course, other causative factors have also come into play, such as lack of physical exercise, nuclear radiation and not least of all, vibrational and digital brain infusions. Prolonged physical suffering often causes psychological stress, and this combination can develop into a self-reinforcing vicious circle of physical and psychological traumas from which it is very difficult to escape. Many people then get hooked on drugs.

Such whirl-pooling trends cannot be reversed until the world wakes up from its deep apathy, and after millions of people will have died unnecessarily, prematurely and miserably slowly. Here, here and here is overwhelming evidence that uncountable ones already have.

However, do not despair. I accumulated more than three dozen seemingly unrelated, and seemingly harmless, “aging,” “allergy” and other physical symptoms over the course of many years. Most of them have now disappeared. With disciplined research, honest knowledge, patience and determination you can also prevent chemical-induced HCDs. And if you already suffer from one of them, you may be able to restore your health with a similar protocol that helped to rid me of the underlying causes of a weakened, overworked immune system, self-diagnosed multiple chemical sensitivity and more.

I did not pay much attention to my symptoms for many years; dismissing them mostly out of ignorance or as “aging.” However, one day several years ago I must have reached the maximum body load of chemicals that my immune system was able to deal with. Even though I had been in such an excellent physical shape that I was still jogging up and down a canyon several times a week that cold January, I suddenly experienced high fever, bronchial problems, almost constant thirst, extreme weakness and frequent prolonged headaches.

Some of these sudden-onset symptoms persisted and some even intensified over a period of many months. Two physicians did not know their causes but prescribed antibiotics several times They had no effects in lessening any of these symptoms. One doctor finally ordered several blood tests, and then informed me that “Your tests indicate you have a serious illness. I want you to see a cardiologist and an oncologist.”

He did not tell me what my illness might be and I did not ask him, because his diagnosis did not worry me. A stranger had already phoned me in the mean time, in response to my Reality Denial Syndrome (RDS)-causing letters to a newspaper about environmental health problems. She had told me that I had been poisoned. Her family’s osteopathic MD had already started me on the road to recovery with a daily detoxification protocol to rid my body of arsenic, my most dominant toxin. Over time he diagnosed additional causes of my older and newer symptoms that I was also able to ameliorate and/or eventually eliminate entirely.

Again, think about this: A stranger, an increasingly rare empathetic creature, who was not afraid to speak the truth, bluntly and correctly tells me her shocking diagnosis over the phone: “You are poisoned.” Since then, my vast amount of research and experiences has convinced me that such a diagnosis probably applies in various degrees for almost every person in the world.

This person’s entire family had been poisoned, and had also been treated, mostly unsuccessfully for many years, by dozens of doctors, in many hospitals, until they found the right clinic specializing in toxins, and therefore, she recognized my dilemma.

No, I do not know the specific sources of the arsenic that poisoned me, but there seem to be many. It is not in our city water that I have been drinking for decades. Recently it tested to be remarkably free from a couple hundred man-made chemicals and pathogens. However, search for arsenic chicken, and initiate cynical belly-shaking laughter to soothe your savaged soul.

I accumulated the astounding number of symptoms listed below. They are not necessarily in chronological order, because many were intermittent or recurrent. These conditions should have warned me, as well as others, especially during my physical check-up exams, that I had slowly worsening systemic health problems and was probably well on my way to getting cancer.

Before I learned that I had accumulated too many poisons in my body, the causes of the symptoms/conditions written in italics were not possible to be diagnosed, and/or were treated mostly unsuccessfully with “ask your doctor”-type pharmaceuticals, except for pre-cancerous spot that a dermatologists freezes off.

Painful lumpy lymph nodes in arm pits
Liver spots on face and hands
Thick skin with deep cracks on heels that sometimes bled
Brain fog of various intensities and durations
Almost total lack of dreaming
Acute very cold hands
Underarm odor, even after showering¹
Tingling skin
Crawling or “electrical buzzing” feeling in arms and legs
Wet and dry macular degeneration on one eye (Misdiagnosis? Could not be confirmed)
Weight loss
Sensitivity to scents, chlorine, formaldehyde, dryer sheets and other VOCs
Moodiness or depression
Soft rippled finger nails
Purplish finger and toe nails
Failing eyesight²
Poor and restless sleep
Long-duration headaches
Runny nose triggered by unknown substances and fragrances
Occasional bloody discharge from nose
Small reoccurring pre-cancerous spot
Frequent need to clear throat
Cold sores on lips
Acute overall weakness
Decades of chronic stinky ear infection, including two surgeries to remove proud flesh³
Almost constant thirst
Forgetfulness
Intermittent halting speech or misspeaking
Blood test indicating a “serious illness”
One or two severe colds or flu per year
Ice cold hands
Lethargy
Irritation from loud noise such a running bathtub water
Dry eyes and lips
Occasional red blotches on face and neck
Frequent feeling of being too hot all over
Long term worries and anxieties
Feeling distressed in poorly ventilated spaces (Sick Building Syndrome)
Slow healing of small wounds
High PSA level⁴

Since that telephone call from a stranger several years ago, I have been educating myself and avoiding processed foods and synthetic chemicals as much as possible. I have been  exercising outside, rain, shine or blizzards, and detoxifying everyday by consuming mostly healing organic foods, natural herbs and concentrated food supplements. I also have not taken any medicines since I began my healing process. Not even one aspirin.

Slowly but surely, most of my symptoms have now completely disappeared, including the ones that had been treated, unsuccessfully, with traditional pharmaceuticals. Now I am  experiencing, intermittently, only a small percentage of the symptoms listed above. But these have also  been slowly fading away or are occurring less frequently even as I am growing older.  In some ways, I now feel even better than ever in my life. Yes, better than ever!

Conclusion:

Whereas, most of the illnesses listed above did not exist, and the remaining few were quite rare, even during times of great stress such as wars, epidemics, lack of healthcare, and malnourishment; and

whereas, since the number of synthetic chemicals has grown exponentially with a corresponding onset and spread of Human Collapse Diseases, and thousands of additional chemicals as well as nano-materials will be developed; and

whereas, the population has been dumbing down inexorably,  making it ever more difficult for more and more people to comprehend the proper use, applications and inherent dangers of certain synthetic/nano-materials; and

whereas, the types and cases of HCD are increasing in spite the increasing trends of prescription drug use that are supposed to cure illnesses, growth in healthcare spending and a decreasing trend in smoking of tobacco; and

whereas, ever more nations, state governors and institutions are declaring or recognizing multiple chemical sensitivity to be physically debilitating; and

whereas, I was able deal with such unbelievable emotional and physical early-life stress that would have destroyed many people of today’s generation, and do so without one pill, without one mentor, without mental health counseling, but by eating only real organic foods and food supplements, and

whereas, I still have not been able to uncover my presumed PTSD; and

whereas, I slowly accumulated evermore symptoms whose causes were difficult if not impossible to diagnose or be treated successfully by traditional means; and

whereas, after the systemic root causes of my ever-faster descent towards death were finally discovered by an osteopathic physician, I very slowly recovered my health by avoiding synthetic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and eating organically-grown foods and supplements as much as possible; and

therefore, a broad spectrum of synthetic chemicals, their reactions with each other and within people’s bodies, must be the real causes of weakened or damaged immune systems that are responsible for HCD, Environmental Illnesses, and optimum health can only be obtained and maintained through avoidance and elimination of such chemicals.

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¹ Certain chemicals in deodorants caused me to have sore swollen lymph nodes. Even when I was using any kind of main-brand deodorant, my wife would often still tell me, “You still stink,” after I had just come out of the shower. Now that I have been detoxifying I rarely have to use any kind of deodorant.

² When I told my optometrist that I had been detoxifying my body, he said “That probably will have improved your eyesight.” My eye test indeed determined that my vision had improved to where it had been thirteen years before. I became less myopic in spite of having stared at job-related and home computer screens for eight hours a day for a dozen-some years.

³ I had a surgery to stop a severe middle ear infection when I was a baby. Because of almost total neglect, extreme poverty and ignorance, I unnecessarily continued to suffer decades of acute/chronic stinky pus ear infections. Another unbelievable but brutally true confirmation of ignorance, misunderstanding, controversy, cover-up: After years of flushing and sucking out smelly “debris” from out of my ear by many MDs, in three different countries, and antibiotic treatments, I finally and completely stopped this chronic infection from reoccurring by simply cleaning out that ear, what’s left of it, about once a month with cotton swabs.

⁴ My PSA level was on a rapid rise before my “serious illness” diagnosis and then quickly declined again to a very low level after I began detoxifying.

Disclaimer: The Author had no formal training in medicine, nutrition or psychology.

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