We have created a check list for a place to start. All of it may seem overwhelming, but hopefully this will be a good place to start the healing process.
Good suggestion: Assemble a support team. This is not an illness you can fight on your own and the medical field really has nothing to offer. Get friends, family, children, siblings on your side. Only add the people that will help you get well not help you die. I (Kay) was really the only one on Kim's team, but more distant team members included friends and family and children that prayed for us. The team members need to understand all the points below and understand how important they are for your well being.
Check List for ALS Treatment, Stage 1
Things to Eliminate:
Power of the Mind -- develop PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)
Good suggestion: Assemble a support team. This is not an illness you can fight on your own and the medical field really has nothing to offer. Get friends, family, children, siblings on your side. Only add the people that will help you get well not help you die. I (Kay) was really the only one on Kim's team, but more distant team members included friends and family and children that prayed for us. The team members need to understand all the points below and understand how important they are for your well being.
Check List for ALS Treatment, Stage 1
Things to Eliminate:
- _____Check your home for toxic chemicals: bleaches, cleaners, sanitizers, etc., and eliminate.
- _____Eliminate all processed food that contain preservatives, sugars, vegetable oils, etc., like aspartame, MSG, corn syrup, rice, wheat, aluminum, fluoride, nitrates and nitrites.
- _____Eliminate all soft drinks and fast foods. (No fries and greasy burgers)
- _____Eliminate all chemical fumes, perfumes, deodorants, cosmetics, (even Chapstick)
- _____Eliminate toxic soaps. Toothpaste (get fluoride fee), shampoo, hand & bath soap, laundry soap, dryer sheets.
- _____Reduce carbohydrates and fried foods.
- _____Eliminate alcohol and tobacco.
- _____Start taking 4000 mg of Vitamin C daily. Vitality C is excellent brand.
- _____Start using coconut oil, as ointment on weak muscles and 6 to 8 tablespoons with food.
- _____Get Magnesium. ReMag is an excellent brand with 100% absorption.
- _____Take a glutathione supplement. Wellnesspharmacy.com sells a 5 oz bottle (I t. per day) now a prescriptions is requited. Eat an avocado daily and get good sleep in dark room with no electronics. No cell phone.
- _____Take Vitamin D3, with Vit K2 and Mg. Vitamin D levels should be 60-90. Get D levels checked if possible.
- _____Take Turmeric. 750 mg per day or 500 mg if it contains black pepper.
- _____Go to a gluten free diet. (No grains with gluten such as bread & pasta.)
- _____Implement ketogenic (high in good fats) and Terry Wahl's diet (high in fresh vegetables).
- _____Increase hydration. Try to drink at least 3 quarts of pure water per day.
- _____If swallowing is an issue (Bulbar ALS), start drinking carbonated water until your throat heals..
- _____Learn ways to detox your body. Google ways to detox or search our updates.
Power of the Mind -- develop PMA (Positive Mental Attitude)
- _____Invoke divine assistance. Pray a lot. But remember that God helps those who help themselves. (Pray as though everything depends on God, then work as though everything depends on you.)
- _____Read positive, uplifting books and listen to good uplifting music.
- _____Paste positive clippings around your home and/or workplace.
- _____Do not allow negative input from family, friends, doctors. Tell them you are going to beat this and believe it yourself by vocalizing it daily.
- _____Find some people you can serve, beyond your immediate family. Care centers are a great place to find people that can lift you up by letting you serve them. Great therapy.
- _____ Find a way to keep doing what you enjoy doing, for as long as you can. Refuse to give in to this disease. For me, it is golf.
- _____ A change of attitude will change the outcome. (One of our PALS said that she added spirituality as we had suggested and said that it has made a huge difference for her.)