February 2011, my son 36 year-old-son was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Over four and a half years later, my son Jason’s “recovery” from MS looks like a cure, but who knows? We’ll
see. A few days ago, when he visited with the neurologist who originally diagnosed
the disease years ago, the doctor was noticeably surprised to see Jason
looking so bright and energetic. He was expecting to see a patient wracked with
the disease. He inquired. Jason, in a joking fashion told him “I was cured by my
dad and my midwife.” He explained that
he sees a nurse practitioner who has a small clinic in Wasilla, Alaska and who also works in a midwifery. He mentioned that both I and his “midwife”—Paula—zeroed in on “Leaky
Gut Syndrome” as the primary cause of the MS.
There’s been lots of theories about what causes MS which also includes
low Vitamin D3 levels, genes and lots more. Paula’s brother has an auto-immune
disease, which explains why she’s spent many hours every day reading about it
(as I do). So I’m going to explain Leaky
Gut Syndrome not in Medical-ese, or proper English, but an American dialect
called “saloon”.
Your gut has tiny pores in it where the recently
digested nutrients go through and enter your system where they are transported
around your body and feed all your parts and pieces. What is left over in your
intestines is nasty and a bit toxic and is commonly referred to as “Poop”. “Poop’—in Latin it’s known as “crap”. Poop is designed to properly exit the tunnel
taking the toxins with it. But something
has happened: Your gut starts getting potholes in it. There are volumes of
articles theorizing why these potholes are showing up. Things that irritate your
gut lining like the nasty leftovers from processing foods, or gluten, or stuff
you eat that you have a sensitivity to.
Eventually, these potholes become holes in the lining and they get big
enough that the undigested food particles and toxins fall through them and into
the river where they are carried around your body and even up to your brain. You
see, these food particles were supposed to be fully digested and become poop,
but they fell through the potholes undigested.
Now, further inside your system lurks security guards
stationed to intercept intruders. They work for a company called “Immune
System”. They are the Mall Cops of you
system. Normally they just hang around
and glare at people. But if you inhale something like pollen, they will send
mucus out to gather up the invaders and escort them out of your body through your nose. “Mucus”:
in Latin is known as “snot”. But look
out! Here comes undigested food particles (proteins) and toxins floating by the
mall cops. The mall cops don’t recognize these intruders and swing into action.
This trigger-happy bunch starts shooting up the place, stray bullets strike
parts of the brain, tearing holes in the myelin (the fatty material that
insulates important parts of the brain). The holes (sometimes called lesions)
make MS. After a never-ending onslaught of invasions by these undigested
particles that keep falling through the gut leaks, the immune system mall cops
get themselves completely worked up into frenzy. They will shoot anything that
moves. The more bullets that
accidentally hit the brain myelin, the more crippling is the MS.
Conventional treatment which seems to help, consists of
drugs that calm the immune system down a bit.
The mall cops are still there, but – let’s face it – they’re stoned. That’s good because they’re not shootin’ up
the place quite as much. But those drugs are expensive, the side effects of some
of them are really bad. Something else that seems to be able to calm the mall
cops down a bit is Vitamin D3. That’s what I’ve heard anyway. I doesn’t hurt you and it’s cheap. Although I
heard you should take calcium if you are taking D.
I almost forgot this part. There are two types of
enzymes of interest here: Digestive enzymes, and systemic enzymes. Digestive
enzymes help break down the food in your belly so less of it is undigested to fall through the potholes. Systemic enzymes like Serrapeptase cruises around
your circulatory system, and like Pac Man, gobbles up the proteins that fell
through and are floating around before the mall cops spot them and start
shooting.
Anyway, one would suppose that if you didn’t have a
leaky gut, the whole problem would go away.
Google “Leaky Gut Syndrome” and settle in for a winter of reading fun.
I
started reading the Dr. Terry Wahl book on beating progressive MS with the paleo
diet. I read it cover-to-cover at least three times. With all the supplements
and diet recommended by Dr. Terry Wahl and others, my son Jason was holding his
own. That in itself was no small matter. But Paula, pursuing the Leaky Gut
theory went a step farther. Jason’s previous test for allergens (the scratch
test on the back) did not identify any significant sensitivities, so she did a
blood draw and had that tested. Bingo! He had some sensitivities that on the
surface didn’t appear alarming. Given numbers, he had no level-3 (troublesome)
sensitivities; he had a couple level-2
sensitivities (moderate), and a couple of level-1 (very minor)
sensitivities. When he avoided those
foods completely, the healing—aided by pre/probiotics and Bovine Colostrum—made
headway. As near as he can remember, it
was around June (2015) when he had the blood test and fine-tuned his diet. He
believes it was August when he noticed he was feeling normal again. Before, ringing the bells and making any big
announcements, he waited to see if this rejuvenation was going to hold. Well, it is October 8th and he
still feels absolutely normal. As an aside, he had been trying to qualify for
the physical standards for State Public Safety which includes running one and a
half miles in under 15 minutes. Because of his “foot-drop” he never made
it. However, about 2 weeks ago, he
completed that run 43 seconds ahead of time.
In summary, here is what he did:
· Stopped assaulting his gut. Identified (through a
blood test) what foods were irritating his gut lining.
· Took Bovine Colostrum to start healing it. About a month
· Took prebiotics (the fertilizer) and probiotics (the
flower seeds)to re-grow the good flora in his gut to more thoroughly digest his
food. The pre and pro are combined in the same supplement.
o One could consider a digestive enzyme with one’s
meals for a while
o One could consider a systemic enzyme on an empty
stomach for a while
I just want to add another treatment to heal leaky gut
that I only read about. It’s just too funny not to mention it. You can
search the web yourself and find that it has been performed in Europe several
times and is very successful. It’s call “Fecal Matter Transplantation”. If you
speak “saloon”, it‘s known as a sh*t enema. Take fecal matter from a healthy
young donor, mix with water in a blender (borrow the blender from a neighbor),
and give yourself an enema. The reason researchers knew it would work is because
Hitler’s physician cured Hitler’s bad gut by mixing up a (you ready for this?) a
poop cocktail and convinced the Furher to drink it. The real reason I would not recommend this is
because a guy I know who tried it told me that about 30 minutes afterward he had
an irresistible urge to invade Poland. Anyway, the series of enemas was used to
kill a gut fungus call Candida so the gut could eventually heal. If you do it, don’t tell your friends.
http://www.fecalmicrobiotatransplant.com/2012/08/could-multiple-sclerosis-be-caused-by.html
(here’s 3 cases where remission was recorded for 15 years, 3 years, and 2 years.
Thought you might find it interesting
