I'd like to second this, Judy and Todd.

It took me three life-threatening slaps over the course of 13 years to
wake me up out of my vegetarian dream.  At that point, I wasn't about to
fall prey to any one dietary doctrine again.  I gave various
nutritional/diet/low-carb approachs the chance for almost three years
after that (and yes, they helped, but I was not "saved") before I weakly
conceded to the third slap and said, "Okay, already--I'll give
'unnatural' medicine a chance!"

I am no longer a firm believer in "the body's innate ability to heal
itself".  When the body's been screwed up by environmental factors
beyond its control, call them 'unnatural' if you will, it's Nature's job
to set forth the decomposition process and disperse this body's
molecules elsewhere.  So the process continues over time as it should,
but this body still has an intact survival instinct and recognizes when
it's time to take unnatural measures.

Is a full and complete "healing" possible?  For some, maybe.  But scars
that are here to stay are a part of any complex organism's life.  Some
are more visible than others, but we all have them to some degree.  I
guess it's just a matter of learning from them and using that knowledge
to do a better job healing the next wounds that will inevitably arise
from our ignorance or misfortune.

Best wishes,
Lois

> Todd Moody wrote:
>
> >I certainly believe that paleo diet ought to help the body to
> >heal from many injuries and insults, but there is simply no
> >evidence that it can reverse all health problems.  That is a
> >fantasy, and if it keeps you from considering all available
> >options it is a dangerous fantasy.
> >
> >  It may be that the
> >cause of autism or ADD is something so unnatural in the first
> >place (such as vaccination) that it places the body beyond its
> >normal homeostatic range of states.  The treatment may have to be
> >as unnatural as the cause.
>
>
> I think that you are a very wise man, Todd.  If I had continued to hold on
> to my mindset that the natural forces of the body's innate healing systems
> fueled by the "right" diet (and who the heck has 100% assuredness about what
> constitutes RIGHT!!)could cure my Hodgkins Lymphoma, I'd be one dead
> cavegirl....
>
>
> If I had woken up out of my fantasy one year earlier, my children would have
> not almost lost their mother, seen her deteriorate to a vegetable, and my
> treatment would have been slightly kinder and gentler.  I was so strong in
> my mindset that the alternative approach plus diet was the be all and end
> all to healing, that by the time I finally "caved in", and allowed myself
> permission to accept "THEIR MEDICINE" (which was the one that SAVED MY
> LIFE), I was approximately 24 hours away from total cardiac pulmonary
> failure in the intensive care ward at Sloan Kettering.
>
> Chemotherapy became the nectar that pumped life back into my body, and
> radiation the energy that dispersed the cloud over my lungs.  That's the
> mind set I adopted in order to turn the "enemies"(allopathic medicine) into
> forces of life and light. Theories and strong convictions are of no use to a
> dead person.  DEAD IS DEAD - SICK IS SICK!!!!!
>
> Our minds can keep us prisoner, or free us.
>
> Thank you Todd for reminding me of how grateful I am to be alive, and how
> much I have learned in the process.  I am so happy your son is making great
> strides..
>
> Judy Genova, cavegirl
>