Apr 24 2010
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Hi Christine! It is REALLY providential that I clicked on your link first while visiting “Fat Tuesday”. I was praying and asking God for some help with my health and possible adrenal fatigue problems.
I am a homeschooling mother as well. I have had 4 children in 6 years, my oldest being 6 and my youngest 3 months. I have been continuously pregnant and breastfeeding for the past 7 years!! I had mono when I was abt. 22 yrs old and was diagnosed hypothyroid after that. I’ve been on levothyroxine now for 13 years. I discovered WAP after the birth of my first son, but only really drank raw milk at first…..did nothing else. After my 3rd child I really started doing all of the soaking, souring, sprouting, butter, coconut oil, fermenting stuff. AND THEN, while eating WAP and trying to carry on a normal exercise regime(along with a severe lack of sleep and all of my homeschool/mommy duties) I REALLY crashed. It was so disheartening, as I was drinking kefir shakes with raw egg yolks and doing so much more with our diet. BUT my diet has proven to NOT be enough. Every time I exercised I would get sick. I ended up going on 2 antibiotics in 2 months….and hadn’t been on any in years. THEN I went to my dr. to check out why I was so incredibley tired……he checked my blood and told me my ebpstein barr levels were high (in a nutshell I had “mono” again…although it is a bit different the 2nd time around). How could I rest? How could I heal?? I was so very frustrated…..and then within a month I was pregnant with #4!!!
So tell me, what you would recommend for me PLEASE!!! I am so very tired again and feel as though I’m fighting something off all of the time. My personality is to go go go. I just started trying to exercise again too—I guess that’s out??? My problem with doing any sort of detox is that I am, you guessed it, breastfeeding. This is why I have not done any sort of special diet besides WAP…I’m afraid of what it may do to my babies (either while pregnant or nursing). Is there anything I can do….chlorella or Kombucha, or GAPS….without hurting my baby. I just want to heal.
Thanks so much and God bless,
Molly
p.s. my husband is from six nations reservation in Ontario. I am emailing from Ohio(:
Hi Molly,
Boy do I ever feel for you girl! It is so incredibly frustrating to think you are doing everything right, and your body is not healing. My advice would be to give Pam a phone call or email. She is absolutely amazing! I truly believe that having your hair tested and doing nutritional balancing will help to solve these issues you are having. When I started the program, I was still nursing my third baby, I think she was about 18 months old. Pam and Dr. Wilson felt that it was more important to begin balancing my biochemistry and receiving nutrients than the detox I would experience. Remember that whatever imbalances and deficiencies you have, you will be passing those to your nursling as well.
Nutritional balancing is a long road, but it works! You’ve really got nothing to lose! I hope that helps!