Hello everybody! I'm Mary, Jack's wife, and I run the BioMeridian Nutritional department in our clinic in Salt Lake City. I'm excited to be on the Doug Stephan Show! I was talking to Doug yesterday telling him how much I wish the women of the world knew there were options to their health care, and Doug asked me to come on as a guest and tell the story of my return to health...
Almost twelve years ago I found my first breast lump... I state that so calmly now, but many of you, I know, have felt the sheer terror of that moment yourself. I had just watched my grandmother slowly die of breast cancer in my mother's bed a few years before, and this sent waves of panic in me that cannot be described. I initially fell to the floor in panic...I remember rocking on the floor with my knees to my chest, just trying to breath. I was 37 years old and "way to young" to have this happening. After all, my grandmother was in her 80's! But eventually I got up off the floor and promptly went into denial. I had just gotten divorced and felt very alone in the world. Some time later I called my sister, and to her great credit she flew into town just to go to my mammogram appointment with me. Looking back, she must have been very frightened also after going through our grandmother's death too.
I remember the test being uncomfortable and frightening but I didn't cry all the way through it because of pain...tears were the only response I had when coming face to face with my denial. I remember the Radiologist was in a hurry to read the test, (it was lunch time or something) and he stopped counting my breast lumps on the film at 17. He said there were too many to count, so it was established, I had Fibrocystic Breast Disease. He said not to worry, "everybody has it," and just come back when it's cancer.
And that was it. That was the end of it until "they" could come up with some drug to make them go away, or they felt it was time to cut them out - or off... And that was all I knew. That was the answer from on high, the holy of holy's had spoken and there was nothing to do but wait...and panic...or just simply go into denial. So I didn't think about it, didn't talk about it, didn't bring it up when I met Jack and eventually married him. At least not much. Sometimes it would squeak out in breathy gasps when life just got too much and I had to open up a little about some of my biggest fears.
But basically I just lived my life and found myself pregnant (which was a huge surprise) and tried to keep myself healthy for the baby, but worrying I wouldn't be around to raise him. Medicine offered me no advice, no nutritional help, no comfort, no hope.
About 5-6 years ago, our son was in school and I started to work part time in my husband's clinic. We had more time to research now and we went to every nutritional seminar we could find because I knew this was the only hope I had of ever making a dent in this "mysterious appearance" of breast cysts. They were now very hard and Jack's could feel more in me all the time.
We happened on a Standard Process seminar one day in Mesquite, Nevada where the President was speaking, and then another one in Salt Lake City where Dr. Michael Dobbins gave us some hope that there could be a way to help my "disease."
To make a long and scary story short, I embarked on a journey that was completely new to me, one of honoring the intrinsic intelligence of the body, which in the end changed the path I was on of mastectomies, disfigurement and probable early death.
I now have no, zero, nada, not even one breast lump! They are all gone. And also gone are the days of complete endocrine distress and almost failure. My thyroid was in such bad shape that I used to get these "chills" that would almost put me into a seizure to the point I would think my heart was going to stop. I also couldn't stand up for any length of time...I was always looking for a chair everywhere I went. (This was in my 20's and 30's!) And my moods! Well, I have two ex-husbands that can tell you about those! Crying all the time, exhausted, blaming everything and everybody for my moods. I was a walking endocrine nightmare! But now all those symptoms are gone. I have tons of sustained energy, no more massive ups and downs because of the incredible sugar intake I had to have just to get through the day. No weakness, no chills, no yeast infections, no bladder infections and a very calm and funny personality...(most of the time :-D) But most importantly, I don't have any breast lumps, cysts, or that dreaded Fibrocystic Breast Disease! (I rescinded the "decree" btw!)
I just want the women of the world to know there is something you CAN do besides sit around and wait for the time bomb to go off! And I am not a superwoman of any kind. I don't eat perfectly, I don't exercise like a maniac (and mostly not at all), I don't get enough sleep, and I expose myself to the same stresses and pollutants of life that most of us just can't avoid. But I have baby'd and taken care of myself these last few years by FEEDING my body just like I would my most precious little baby. I have been pretty good at staying on my regime of regaining my health... and I have cleansed, cleansed, cleansed my body.
You can call our clinic at 801-523-1890, go to our website: jackstockwell.com or email me at: office@jackstockwell.com and we can give you information on the protocols I used and the cleanses we have perfected - if I do say so myself! We are pretty damn good at balancing the craziness of your life with incredible nutritional support. I didn't have time for snythetic anything in my life and I sure wasn't going to try all the crazy health fads and "miracle cures" that kept coming and going, i.e., certain berry drinks (you know who you are), alkinize or die (very bad science), multi-level everything, algea, vegetarianism, no fat, no salt, no red meat, no dairy, no fun.... No, I found Standard Process and the incredible no nonsense of brilliant Dr. Royal Lee and their whole food solutions and cleansing and I never looked back.
And if there is enough interest I will try to post my protocol's and cleanses here. They are very easy to do, it just takes some time...my breasts lumps were gone in about four months (really) but it took much longer to regain my health and change the reason for the lumps being there in the first place. But it was well worth it. I think now I'll be around to see my sons wedding and maybe have some grandkids! I must mention, besides my grandmother, my sister was diagnoised with breast cancer (in her lymphs) two years ago, two of my aunts on both sides of my family have had breast cancer twice and one is dying right now. And I have had uncles die and cousins with cancer also. So cancer was a very real gentic factor and fear in my life that I now have real hope to avoid.
Dear Mary,
This Easter afternoon my husband came running into my bedroom to get me up to read your article. I thought here we go again to try something else that will not work. But I read it and saw myself in you. Everything that you have experienced I am going thru. You have given me alittle hope and would like to know more of what you have done to get yourself healthy. My thyroid has nodules and not working I have had multiple cysts in each breast They removed 3/4 of the right lobe of my liver that had a cyst attached to the gall bladder and cancer of the outer lining of the uterus. I can relate to the need of sugar for the energy the cold and hot spells that go to the bones core. I am willing to do anything to get better. My husband has had to put up with the same mood swings that you discussed. If you could please e-mail me or call would be wonderfull. My e-mail address is jivetter@hotmail.com and phone # is 813 531 4495.
I thank you for your article.
Joyce Vetter
Posted by: Joyce Vetter | April 12, 2009 at 03:56 PM