Having spent nearly a decade dying, I am deeply grateful for the pioneering of Dr. Devi Nambudripad, developer of Nambudpripad's Allergy Elimination Technique. NAET employs muscle testing (kinesiology) to determine allergies--a term encompassing chemical, environmental and nutritional sensitivities that tend to derange the immune system and contribute to a variety of "incurable" ailments. A goal of this innovative method is to treat chronic illness through acupressure stimulation of the nervous system. This initiates a "clearing" theoretically capable of removing allergic "blockages" that keep bioenergy from flowing properly through the body.
At twenty-seven life inexplicably came crashing down. One day I was playing basketball three hours at a stretch, able to eat and drink whatever I pleased; the next I was gripped by a mysterious illness that, one by one, took away the foods, drinks and sports I loved, even--in the insidious way chronic illness has of stripping you clean--many people I loved.
At first I was diagnosed with the medical profession's catchall for baffling conditions: "depression." I felt deeply, however, that depression was the result not the cause of whatever was degenerating my once athletic body. But I dutifully popped my pills until I nearly died of an adverse reaction. Growing desperate, I headed into "alternative" territory seeking solutions.
My first stop on a twisted journey into the Wonderland of complementary therapies was at my mouth. A holistic doctor suggested I'd been poisoned by mercury and other heavy metals leaching from my dental work, so I spent a fortune getting my crowns and fillings replaced with supposedly benign materials. For all the damage this did to my wallet, removing such a toxic load from my system produced almost total symptom relief--for several months.
When my problems with Candida and fatigue returned, it was with a vengeance. My old nemeses were joined by a bewildering array of seemingly unrelated symptoms that continued to defy medical diagnosis. Despite a series of "negative" tests, I lay in bed at night terrified I was dying. In addition to debilitating food allergies and exhaustion, I suffered facial neuralgia, muscle spasms, back pain, hypoglycemia, shortness of breath, and chemical sensitivities.
In an effort to halt my deterioration, I took handfuls of nearly every supplement on the market. I received intravenous chelation. I did parasite cleanses, special Candida diets. I experimented with ozone and infrared saunas. I tried reiki, acupuncture, homeopathy, biofeedback, magnets, "zappers." I underwent EMDR, hypnosis, meditation, even psychic surgery. I tried practically everything and spent thousands, but after six years, I was sicker than ever and getting worse.
The word "inspiration" best conveys the intuitive process I began in 2002 that led me to consider the radical notion that if I could somehow "reset" myself at the genetic level, my thirty or so bizarre symptoms would eventually go away. I found myself on this path after reading a disturbing book by Harvard-trained Leonard Horowitz entitled Emerging Viruses. Basing his claims on meticulous research, Dr. Horowitz persuasively argues that vaccines are the real cause of a variety of autoimmune diseases, including AIDS.
This may strike anyone who accepts the official line that vaccines are safe and effective as unbelievable. But after a year spent testing Horowitz's ideas using kinesiology (muscle testing), I concluded belief is not required for immune-wrecking retroviruses to penetrate the bloodstream via "immunizations" and alter the genetic code, potentially sabotaging health under a myriad of creative diagnoses such as "fibromyalgia," "chronic fatigue," and "multiple chemical sensitivities."
I firmly believe the root cause of these autoimmune illnesses is genetic damage through factors such as vaccines compounded by cellular toxicity. As evidenced by the expanding body of literature on the topic, I am far from alone in this opinion. I contend that cells collect and hold toxicity for the purpose of slowing down the many mutant pathogens, such as simian 40 retrovirus (sometimes called "monkey AIDS"), released in the system by vaccines. Cells know heavy metals, for example, are not only poisonous to the host, but also to pathogens. Such a Catch-22 can lead to environmental illness and immunological breakdown, but it may be the only choice a body operating with damaged DNA has.