You MUST watch this series of Understanding the Lymph System. If you are health conscience at all, you need to begin to understand how your body is designed. This man has observed thousands of individuals over the 40 years he has been been doing clinical work. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Dr. Morse is into Christ conciseness, so be warned you will need to ignore that. But he really know his chemistry! Watch it for that alone and you will be well informed.

This video on youtube may help you to understand what I am doing. Colon & Kidney Cleansing Moorea

Are You Getting Enough Protein in Them Veggies?

There is a great article in Raw Food Health about the way we get protein out of veggies & how much we really need. check the link out HERE. "An interesting argument over vegetable protein, (aka plant protein, or protein found in fruits and vegetables) has raged for years. Some say that it's incomplete. Here's what they mean: There are nine essential amino acids. Those nine cannot be synthesized by the body, and so must be taken in through what we eat. No one fruit or vegetable contains all nine, though protein taken from animals does. Therefore, some have concluded that vegetable protein doesn't meet the body's requirements for protein, and that animal protein is necessary. This is something that was dismissed by nutrition experts years ago. The author of the 1970s-era "incomplete protein theory," Frances Moore Lappe, admitted in the 1990s that she had been completely mistaken in her assertion that combining protein is necessary. We now know that while we need to get all of those nine amino acids, we don't need to get them together, or even in the same day. So where can we get protein? All plant matter contains protein. By eating a variety, we meet out needs." Moorea

Day 13: Stats

Facts:
The Lyme test I had done @ the IGenex labs was negative. This is kind
of a blessing and a curse. A blessing because even tough there is a cure,
it is controversial, expensive and has horrific side effects. But the
curse is that it IS a curable disease, and if I had it, I could possibly
be cured. well, I don't have it. But there is good news!

My blood pressure has been holding steady at 134/72, despite the fact
that I juice and drink one whole head of celery with all the other
veggies every day. I check it twice @ Rite Aid bp machine every other day.

I have lost a teeny bit of weight. I weigh 196 now, down from 210 when I began this crazy journey.

I have NO muscle weakness in my chest, back or any limb.
My left arm was the most affected. It is completely normal.

NO coughing. the coughing was strange, it was almost involuntary. That is gone.

I have NO problems with muscle weakness/twitching in my cheeks or forehead.

I have more energy, but there is definitely a limit. When it is gone, it's gone.
But I am gaining more stamina every week.

My hands are able to hold onto things better, but I still have a bit of a loose grip. There is no weakness in either of my hands.

My voice is a bit horse once in a while. Not sure what is going on with that.

I am still having trouble swallowing, but all the weakness in my neck is gone.
I do have a tich of weakness in the very base of my tongue, that had disappeared,
but it is back just a tich. nothing scary like the previous tongue weakness.
My jaw is a bit stiff off and on, but I can talk!!!

Not sure what else to say, except Sunday morning I woke up and thought
"I feel 12 again! I want to go climb a tree!" That lasted about 30 minutes.
Juicing is work!

I praise the Lord for bringing me to this juicing program. Thank you Lord!!!

Moorea

Juicing Newb

This week has been pretty difficult. The first 7-10 days is the most troublesome for new juicers. I'm a juicing newb. Juice newbs want to give up. They want to throw in the towel when the going gets rough. Throwing in the towel means eating fried chicken and having a steak! No one's gonna know, except your intestines! Well...I did throw in the towel for one little split second. I ate some fried chicken. Not sure which is worse in the vegan world, it must be steak, so naaah- it wasn't THAT bad. Except it was fried. Breaded and fried in corn oil. Reread that like you hear me saying fried as in an "It was AMAZING!" kind of way. Like I had never eaten fried chicken before kind of way. Yep- just one piece. I paid dearly for it though. I could feel it in my neck/throat for a few days.

It is just amazing to me that I could do that to myself, knowing what it at steak here...uh, on pun intended. I mean my theory is that my glutamates are too high in my brain, and when I limit them by eating a plant based diet, I keep them in check.
It's been working. Today was a fabulous example. Hardly any symptoms at all!
So what am I doing playing Russian Roulette? If my theory is right, then motor neurons die when I cannot keep the glutamates in check. They are gone forever.
Gone. Forever.

I blame it on marketing. Yep- I have been marketed to for at least 40 years. Who knows what kind of jingles are deep down in my brain singing "Eat that chicken-
you deserve it, your faaabulous, life is greeeeat, don't think about tomorrow!"
And the the images; don't get me started on the images. Cindy Crawford drinking Pepsi and looking sooo georgeous. Oh yeah- I had the mom who said "Eat all your food-children in Africa are starving." How I am supposed to go against that kind
of programming!

I'm fighting against everything I have been taught, and am told (even by my Doctor.)
Let me remind you of another thing. I LOVE MEAT! All kinds of meat. Not whale meat though. Technically that would be listed in the omega 3 oils column on any food chart. But I do love meat. I enjoy meat. I especially love Rib-eye. Oh. My mouth
is watering! Will I ever be able to eat a rib eye steak again? What was this post about? Oh yea, programming. Habits.

Habit are nasty things. In my life anyhow. Too many bad ones. I need some good ones, like juicing- and LOVING IT. Will I ever love it like I love Rib-eye? Maybe. Probably not. But I need to learn to and fast. Motor neurons are at steak. ;o)

Moorea

Rom 12:2 "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

Healthiest Foods

The World's Healthiest foods is a wonderful resource for any
nutritional questions you may have about the foods they feel
are the world's most nutritious. I used this site, brought to you
by the George Meteljan Foundation, to compile my low glutamates list
from their in depth nutritional profiles. They use a food calculator
that measures all the nutritional facts you see listed.
Throw in an avocado- and voila- statistics!

Have fun poking around in their files!

Moorea

Day 7:

Praying Past Your Preferred Outcomes
Is a wonderful article sent to me my Mrs. C, thank you! Curtis and I have been
praying this way since we found out what my condition might be. I have to agree
that the Holy Spirit does intercede when all we can do is groan! (Romans 8:36)

Being so sick and feeling like I was going to die, I mean really feeling the
profound muscle weakness in my throat and tongue brought me to the point of
complete dependence on God. I was in a constant state of crying out to Him
to help me glorify Him and for peace. The only way I can describe it was sweet.
It was completely letting go of all I wanted, needed, cared for and putting
every fiber of my being in His hands. Hands that could heal me if He chose to.
Although I expected/ asked Him to do it, I trusted that if He didn't, He knew
what would glorify Him. That is a difficult pill to swallow for people
who do not know that Lord. What could possibly be gained by a mother of four
dying a horrible death of atrophy and suffocation. What? WHAT!? A testimony.
To make the life of Jesus evident (2 Cor. 4:10-11) How would anyone know He
is real if they did not see the work He is doing in my life despite the
degeneration that is going on in my body? That I have peace that my kids will
grow up and be healthy humans despite my death. That I know everyone who
knew and loved me could go on. That I will never do all the things I desired
to do in this life. The reality of knowing where I will go and who I will
be with when I go is a comfort beyond measure. Knowing that I've not failed at
"attaining" anything. Knowing that I have had to do nothing but believe on
the name of Jesus and what He was offering me. How could I not submit
myself to the kind of great Love that reached out from eternity to comfort
and wrap It's arms around me. (Hebrews 4:14) You bet I trust Him.

Moorea

Eph 3:13-21 "So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family [fn] in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.