As I discover more and more while writing, it is fascinating to delve into the findings of other doctors and researchers, to follow their reasoning as they interpret and give meaning to data, thus drawing conclusions that appear to be valid for all human bodies, for all patients alike. There is a sense of safety in such generalizations, and I have found many of them to be true when I applied them in my medical practice. Which is why they are shared here, because they make a valid statement. The science behind ozone and chelation, or colon hydrotherapy does allow us to make certain predictions regarding the outcome of a treatment. This is, so to speak, the 'good' news.
The 'bad' news is, that the timing, the ‘when’ and ‘how’ of things to happen, will always be individual. This is because the process of getting and staying well can only traveled as a path, or a personal journey, no matter what the statistics or the science have to say. Another bad news is, the process can end in either complete success or only partial success. It can also remain inconclusive or turn into failure, very often simply because it was abandoned prematurely. What do I infer?
A recent study done in Germany regarding people actually taking or not taking the drugs their physician prescribed them suggests that, at least in Germany, a good 30% of the patients do NOT take their prescriptions. Even if they proceed to the pharmacy to buy the medicines, they then store them in unopened packaging in the medicine cabinet in their bathrooms, or simply throw them away. This actually makes sense. People don’t always do what they are told to do. The same common wisdom would likewise explain the percentage of inconclusive treatments that I give, as well. People being people, they do not necessarily follow through on advice or instructions. They act according to the meaning that they interpret into the situation, and no input from the outside will ever sway them.
For example, a while ago I had a patient who had come to me to take a short detoxification program. We did the usual preliminary tests and examination and determined that, despite certain weaknesses, she was not in a bad state of health. However, when she started her program I suggested that in the event of more severe cleansing reactions she should consider prolonging the treatment for a few days to allow for all the toxins to be flushed out of the system that the saunas and footbaths were starting to eliminate. After five days of treatment, she determined that she had enough. I asked her how she was doing. She complained about feeling sluggish, tired and of slight aches and pains in the kidney area. I advised for three more days of treatment to complete the process, but she declined, I was sure to her detriment. It is not a boost to anyone’s self-confidence, or trust in her own life and body, when a healing process is aborted and thus ends on a negative note.
Quite a different case was that of a middle-aged man suffering from diabetes, functional impotence and severe depression. Right from the start, he was very motivated to get better, as he also understood that such would require his full participation. Surprisingly, he already started feeling some improvements after only five chelation treatments – his diabetes under control, his blood pressure normal, and the depression a bad memory of the past. Nevertheless, he continued with the full program, knowing that it would take time to fully heal his diabetes.
His turned out to be one of the success stories for Healthy Healing Center. Frankly speaking, I was surprised about how quickly things happened for him. Based on what I believed I knew when I started treating him, I would have estimated that the unpleasant detoxification phase would have lasted for seven to ten treatments, before any palpable improvements could occur. In his case I was wrong, albeit not regarding the outcome, only regarding the speed of recovery. The recovery happened much faster than I would have anticipated.
With regard to timing I was also wrong in another case involving a client who was in much better shape physically than the patient mentioned above. Although to all appearances fit as a fiddle and only taking chelation and ozone treatments as preventive medicine, it took this patient eight chelations to feel their benefit, as his detoxification phase lasted longer than I would have anticipated. Again, I was not wrong regarding the outcome, but wrong with regard to the timing.