I just got word back from our naturopathic consultation with Dr. Erica Zelfand that Adahlia’s hair test showed heavy metals.
Which ones, I don’t know yet. If its iron, well, that is unsurprising because she is iron overloaded at this point.
If its not just iron that they found, this has big implications. On one hand, it is scary and upsetting. I trusted this house. The water. We moved here when I was pregnant, after all. We thought it would be healthier than my apartment with a flooded basement and mold in the unventilated bathroom. My poor, poor developing baby!! What an influx of emotion and swirl of thoughts.
On the other hand, it is hope-inspiring. I have long suspected that something is attacking Adahlia’s system (a toxin, a virus) as well as mine. With with the amount of healthy lifestyle and energy healing work I do, for her to simply be weak just doesn’t make sense. As anyone with any training can tell, Adahlia’s vital force is strong. So what’s affecting her? Is it in the house? Is it in the water? What’s going on?
Well, if its something like a heavy metal toxin, we can clear that out of her system! And then she should be able to recover. But in a way, I can barely believe it. With more children being diagnosed with DBA every year, I would imagine that a doctor out there somewhere has checked them for heavy metal intoxication.
Right?
Meanwhile, if its just the iron overload that has showed up in her hair, I will be both relieved and sad — sad that we cut off her beautiful baby curls from the nape of her neck without creating new hope for a cure. (Its silly, I know. To be truthful, the result is that now she looks like a little pixie with a asymmetrical, hip haircut. Very adorable.)
The good news is that whatever the results say, I have already actually begun a system to remove iron and major toxins, including heavy metals. A week or so after Thanksgiving, we started us both on homeopathic spagyric medicine. I had attended a seminar on their use in conjunction with Chinese herbs to treat difficult, chronic, and degenerative diseases like Lyme disease. Spagyric medicine is alchemical medicine. Homeopathic medicine is medicine diluted in water so that the chemical molecules are no longer present, and just the energy of the medicine remains. Homeopathic and spagyric medicines are very popular in Europe as low-cost, effective health care. Critics of the homeopathic and spagyric process refer to it as hocus-pocus or placebo. Proponents of this sort of combined medicinal process tout its effectiveness and its virtually absent side-effects.
This particular company, based out of Germany, takes pains to separate the yin and yang nature of the herb through an alchemical process before recombining and diluting it homeopathically. Those who study alchemy admire their work. They’ve won awards for innovation and their products came recommended by practitioners I trust who have had great results with them.
And so far, I have reason to believe in their efficacy. First, I have experienced improvement with them, and second, I’ve seen changes with Adahila.
Adahlia LOVES the medicine. She is very eager to take it. And she’s a pretty good little barometer of what’s good for her. Just as important, her poop has changed. It has become drier (clumpier, almost pellet-like) and very dark. Blackish at times; other times green.
What does this mean? That on some level, it removing something, most likely iron, out of her system.
Hooray! The big question remaining is: Is it chelating enough?
That remains to be seen.
But if she has other heavy metals in her, it should be able to chelate those out, too.
(I would be surprised if she is poisoned with aluminum, as I took steps several years ago to reduce our exposure to it by switching to all stainless steel cookware, etc.)
Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as our latest mystery unfolds. I have hope that things are turning around, even if it is slowly, and I know that positive thoughts and prayers for recovery go a long way towards making it a reality!
Much love to you and yours.