Regain Turnaround

Chris and Katrina married in 2017. Since 1995 they had been on their independent health journeys, independent of any public or private health services and independently of each other. Their healthy journeys coincided when they met while Katrina was still a very crippled arthritis with no hope, no life, and existing on disability living allowance. Chris had restored his health already, from an osteoporotic bone loss of 28% and from 3 tumour masses in his liver.

Chris had been a head of department at a secondary school and was therefore very at ease with self-learning and understanding research and academic papers. As he began to adopt better nutritional habits influenced by his reading of research trials from across the world, his bone loss began to reverse as evidenced by his regular scans at the hospital. His osteroporosis consultant had never heard such a thing, certainly in none of his other patients. Chris discovered one reason why this might have been; when he told his doctor what he had been doing that had produced such a good result, his doctor said that as he was retiring soon it wasn’t of interest to him. No patient would ever hear of Chris’ successful health restoration!

Chris decided instead, to share his research with other people who were suffering from various health problems and this was going to be his mission. The research papers that he had seen covered many, many aspects of health and disease; he had discovered that medical science often knew the ‘answers’ even when medical practice was slow to embrace them, if it ever did.

Chris shared his findings with Katrina, and she incorporated what Chris had discovered with what she had already been pursuing.

 Katrina’s health problems began as a toddler when she was treated with 2 years of non-stop antibiotics for what turned out to be asthma. From that time on Katrina remembers not feeling as vigorous as other children, experiencing various symptoms that were uncomfortable and were signs of a gut microbiome (gut flora) imbalance. By age 9 Katrina was diagnosed with severe bowel disease and developed osteoporosis from the overuse of steroids which is often the primary treatment. The treatments used, and still prescribed to sufferers today, were so debilitating that her hospital consultant realised in the nick of time that to save her life he would have to remove the ‘treatment’! 

At 16 when she began to realise that medicine had no answers for her, Katrina walked away from her consultants and concluded that she could do better by herself. There had been too much trauma, too many side effects, with too many unknown future repercussions!

A hospital consultant had suggested that diet was the cure. He hadn’t said which diet unfortunately. He could only hint that if Katrina followed ‘a diet’ for 5 years, she would be cure. ‘I can do that!’ said an overly optimistic 16 year old Katrina! What she hadn’t realised was that the definition of ‘diet’ would lead her down into many BIG, and dark rabbit holes! However, under her own care Katrina was at least functioning better than when under medical supervision.

By age 20, arthritis began to spread through Katrina’s body, crippling and deforming most of her joints. All she could comfortably do was to sit in a chair and not move, not even a hand, to avoid the throbbing agony. Katrina functioned socially, in her rapidly shrinking social life, by dosing up on pain killers so that at least temporarily, people couldn’t tell what was happening to her. Upon returning to a medical consultant in the hope that this time they might have an answer for her, upon the recommendation to take chemotherapy for her arthritis, Katrina walked away! There was nothing that anybody in medicine could do for Katrina, it was down to her own efforts from then on!

Katrina and Chris hear doctors lament that people are causing themselves danger by using nutritional and dietary therapies; if Chris and Katrina hadn’t taken this action for themselves their lives would now be very different, and it is likely that Chris wouldn’t have made it this far. Who knows where Katrina would be and what kind of life she would be having?!

So....where lies the danger?....

Katrina’s past symptoms include, but are not limited to, allergies, skin rashes / psoriasis, dry itchy skin, asthma, bleeding urinary infections, bladder weakness, constant colds and flu, very low blood pressure and dizziness, extreme muscle fatigue, hair loss / thinning, bald patches, brain fog, constant sinus congestion, muscle and joint pain, cavities, gum disease, abscesses, depression, and more ….!