Hey didn´t I reply to your PM? Maybe my comp crashed. Anyway I didn´t have a direct experience with Vernon, however she ignored an email I sent her in my desperation.

Those that have had direct negative experiences with her are Marie64 and Faith I assume.

Finally, Theresa Vernon, much like the founder of Nutritional Balancing, the wacky "doctor" Wilson, is still sick with adrenal fatigue herself.

Hey there, I did get your email but have decided to reply publically in case the issue ever comes up again with others.

People need to be informed of this so called "healer". As Tena said, she is still quite ill herself. I contacted her about a year and a half ago because my friend Marie64 was working with her. At the time, Marie had just started with her and had not had the chance to get screwed over yet either.

I originally started an NB program with Wilson himself. He put me on a "fast oxidizer" plan with glandular supplements that crashed me every time I took them. He had me eating piles of vegetables that I was actually intolerant to (I am highly sensitive to salicylates), and doing several coffee enemas a day, as well as daily saunas. During the three months that I worked with him, I was calling his office about once a week to tell them that I was getting worse and not better. He continued to urge me to keep up with the program, blaming it on "healing reactions". Finally, I ended up in a state that I could no longer hold down food, and after collapsing on the bathroom floor one night I was rushed to the hospital where they struggled to figure out what the problem was. In the hospital, I actually did die for about two minutes but was revived. It was then discovered that I had RSWS, a form of dysautonomia where your body cannot hold sodium. The repeated coffee enemas, saunas, and the reactions to the glandulars and food accelerated my salt wasting and there I was.

So I was released from the hospital and put on Florinef, a drug that helps keep the sodium in the body. I called Wilson to tell him what happened, and he actually shouted at me. He accused me of "doing it wrong" and stated that "my female brain could not comprehend the instructions properly" I was completely disgusted by him and his program. I stayed on the Florinef for a few weeks and then gradually weaned off and switched to loading tons of Sea Salt , as I'm not one who likes to take anything pharmaceutical.

I had abandoned the idea of NB completely, but then my friend Marie64 suggested I reconsider it, and that she had been working with a woman who supposedly was different than Wilson and used an approach closest to Paul Eck. So I contacted TV for a consultation.

First of all, she charged me almost double what Wilson himself charged me for a hair test. When I spoke to her, she was very pushy, hardly let me even speak. It was like a big ol sales pitch. I asked to see a few of her hair tests so that I could see how well her program works. Of course, she declined. I told her about my salt wasting, and she was very dismissive about it, saying that my issues were all blood Sugar problems (this was not the case at all, I had a bigger problem with food allergies which I had not yet figured out). But she did say no enemas and no saunas, which I did like...until later when she suggested Liver Flushing but I'll get to that.

So she put me on a zero carb ketogenic diet and sold me even more supplements than Wilson did. She told me that if I bought the supplements through her, I would get a discount (she sold me all giant bottles of everything and I actually paid more for them then I did with Wilson). I spent about $400 on endomet supplements, plus her $200 consultation and then some more "specially formulated" herbs from her so she got me for about $700. But I was so desperate to get well it seemed worth it at the time.

So I started this very high fat zero carb ketogenic diet and continued to wither away. All of the foods were super high in salicylates and amines, and I slowly began having violent reactions to everything I put in my mouth. I could not tolerate the supplements at all (I took 1/4 pill from each bottle). When I called her to tell her what was happening, again she said it was blood Sugar and healing reactions from a "copper dump". I bought a glucose monitor and began keeping track of my blood sugar, which I discovered was in diabetes range (only after I went back to eating carbs and Sugar did it normalize again). Finally after a few weeks more of narrowing my foods and losing the ability to get out of bed (again), I called her in desperation. She suggested that I do a couple Liver Flushes (yet another barbaric practice that sends the system into pure violence) to "cleanse my liver of the copper and the florinef". I followed her instructions and again, ended up in the hospital. I'm not the only one who has been harmed by these purges, there are plenty of others on this forum who have too..but that is another subject entirely.

After my release I called her to tell her what had happened and she informed me that my case was just too complex for her to deal with anymore. I said "what about all these supplements?" and she told me to contact the lab. So I contacted the lab and they told me they could not refund me because I had purchased them through her, but they would give me a "store credit" (for what? more supplements to make me sick?). I called her back several times, left her several messages, and she would not even return my calls. So I was stuck with $400 worth of useless supplements, and this woman had fled with $700 of mine like a thief in the night.

So that's my TV and NB experience. Although I'm gonna catch hell for saying this, I will be completely honest with you. NB is a load of crap. Anyone can become an NB "practitioner", all they have to do is pay Wilson $500 bucks and take an at home study course and pass a written exam. Usually takes about a month. So in one month you too can become a doctor! And Wilson himself is a chauvinistic nutcase who belongs in the asylum (just read his articles about rape, religion, and politics).

The NB diet is the fasted way to kill your metabolism as well. I used to be a member of an NB facebook group in which I met many people who were on an NB program for YEARS with little to no improvement. I can't even imagine how much money those poor people got taken for.

Supposedly I was "copper toxic" although it was apparently some sort of ghost copper because it never showed up on my tests. In the real world, I am actually histamine intolerant which means that I have excess histamine in my body and this is actually connected to a deficiency of copper. Also (according to TV's own site) copper toxicity leads to excess aldosterone...ummm I've got RSWS and SADH (anti-diruetic hormone insufficiency aka no aldosterone). So How is it again that I am copper toxic?? No one has been able to answer that one yet. I can only wonder how many others have been lured into this copper boogey man tale..oh yeah...plenty. there's a whole other forum for it :)

Now before I get lynched, I will say that I'm sure there are really people out there who have copper toxicity but I highly doubt the numbers are as great as these NB practitioners would like us to believe.

At the end of the day its a business (from my experiences a scam actually), set up to slowly drain the wallets of the sick. I've not met one person yet who has been completely healed on NB. In fact, most of the AF veterans like myself who I met years ago have abandoned the program entirely.

I hope this information was useful to you in whichever direction you decide to go. And for those who are ready to lynch me, bring it on :) This all had to be told.