I know, but I guess when it's the paradigm you've been taught you have 'faith' in it, to a degree and you have 'fear' when considering something outside the box.

I know that when I stopped taking Antibiotics and over the counter meds, and started fasting and cleansing, my immune system was beefed up and I have NEVER gotten bronchitis again. In 1994, I was SO bad, that I had it about 4-5 times that year, and it would last about 3-5 weeks each time. A chiro told me that if I didn't get off the Antibiotics , I would get worse and worse (and I could not imagine what was worse than THAT!)

This friend of mine has been investigating many things in the realm of diet, and is even open to this information (BTD). But he's a bachelor who's very busy with two high responsibility jobs and his girlfriend is a nurse sold out to the medical model. However, she's been investigating cleanses and flushes also, and is very smart and I'm sure will find her way. But you know how it is...when you're taught all the DIS-eases and the diagnoses, that's what you spring back to naturally...the allopathic route most often. Sadly, he has three grandchildren on psych meds and she has four children on psych meds. That's very sad...but I'm not in their shoes and it's not for me to judge or handle their affairs as I haven't walked a mile in their shoes. He doesn't have control over the grandkids anyway, even though he would love to input into their lives.

I just pray that they can find the pathway to health and healing, just as I am hoping for myself and my children. Obviously, without that chiro years ago speaking some firm words to me, I would have been in a very, very bad situation myself with all that recurrent bronchitis, etc. That's why these forums are so good, because 'no man is an island' as they say. We all need each other and learn much from one another!

Thanks for your post! Have a great day.

These days, I just stay away from him and limit my contact with him to our professional work on a friendly basis,,,,without dealing with personal issues. I'm not here to fix him or control him, so I just give him the dignity to handle his life in a way that he chooses, for better or for worse. I've already, in the past, shared many, many things with him. Sometimes, he took hold of things for a short time. But the unspeakable things that I heard that he is doing while drunk on his butt tell me he has some dark issues inside that I want no part of.

I agree with you re getting a total cleanse, but sometimes our problems our spiritual and emotional in origin and the rest is inextricably connected with those deep issues. It's very sad, but also shows why some people post things here OR relay complaints to their physicians but never speak of the hidden things. Here I was thinking it was goat's milk or this or that....when there were many issues that he wasn't telling. And the degree of the issues.

SO SAD!!

Oh well, Holmes and Watson won't have to work to get to the bottom of this medical mystery any longer... CASE SOLVED.

;-(