CAN OLIVE LEAF EXTRACT BE THAT GOOD?

Yes!  See this recent medical article in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

A NOVEL THEORY OF DISEASE

My great grandmother used to jokingly say, ” Be careful of what you want, you might get it.” I’d dreamed of being a writer.  It had come true.  All day and half the night I sat, happily lost in fictional worlds, barely noticing my worsening symptoms.  Back in April  I learned how sick I was: Abnormal EKG, Chest Tight, Short of Breath, Hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, hand, ankle and pulmonary edema, and more. One night I woke nauseous and breathless with the room spinning.  I noticed that. When I saw what drugs my doctor prescribed after my hospital stay (Valsartan-Hydrochlorothiazide, Crestor, Victoza, MetFORMIN), I remembered the Chinese doctor and his herbs (see About Me). China’s been practicing herbal medicine for thousands of years. Modern western medicine is only 249 years old if we date it from the discovery of the smallpox vaccine; 167 years old, if we date it from when washing hands with antiseptic before treating patients was introduced.  Not long.

Now for a revelation. On the Internet searching for natural cures, I eventually came upon three different books published at different times by different authors which all had the SAME theory of disease: Bacteria, viruses and parasites (microbes) out of control in the human body because of a compromised immune system cause all illness (unless congenital, I assumed, or from injury). What? Each book gave a different method of ridding ourselves of the little buggers and restoring health.

THE THREE BOOKS

In late May I found  Dr. Hulda Clark’s The Cure for all Diseases. What a claim!  Only because I’d discovered the title on an herbalist site I trusted, did I investigate.  It gave complicated ways of preventing pathogens (bad microbes) from invading us. Luckily, Dr. Clark also gave a super easy method of killing them all at once: zap ourselves with a very low level current for three 7-minute sessions, waiting 20-30 minutes between each zap. The book was full of case studies. Trouble was, she said we might get reinfected if we didn’t follow her complicated avoidance procedures. I knew I wouldn’t. As a result, I didn’t pay much attention to this wonderful book at first.

In August I found The One Minute Cure: The Secret to Healing Virtually All Diseases. The author said all pathogens (those bad bacteria, viruses and parasites again) were killed by oxygenating the body. He recommended drinking an increasingly strong version of the concoction in his book three times a day for 23 days until the maintenance level was reached.  Since the major ingredient is dangerous before proper dilution, I won’t mention it here.

Last but hardly least, I found Dr. Morton Walker’s splendid 1997 book entitled Olive Leaf Extract (OLE). It detailed original research, his and that of others. Dr. Walker also thought the problem was pathogens the body couldn’t control. He reported cases of OLE curing everything from measles to Herpes and AIDS! AIDS? That did it. I promptly bought some OLE and asked hubby to build me Dr. Clark’s zapper from the schematic in her book. We’re both EE’s, but he’s the more hands-on one. Dr. Clark also sells one on her website. (Hubby found an inexpensive version for sale here.)

HOW I USED THE BOOKS

DR. CLARK’S ZAPPER: It was ready in June. One session and I went from too weak to rise and wash my own dishes to full of energy the very next day. My blood pressure and blood sugar numbers didn’t decline very much at first, but I felt like I was no longer at death’s door.  Amazed, exhilarated, and buttressed by a growing belief in simple cures for what ailed me, I stopped taking my remaining prescriptions.

THE ONE-MINUTE CURE: I tried the author’s concoction for a day or so, but my stomach just wasn’t happy.

OLIVE LEAF EXTRACT (with occasional zapping). In mid-August I began taking two 500 mg tablets (standardized to 20 oleuropein) before each meal. Only one tablet before meals is suggested on the bottle, but no toxicity was reported and I was in a hurry.  Soon I added a tablespoon of Barleans Organic Olive Leaf Complex every other day, just because it was liquid and sounded fresh  Here’s the 500 mg OLE capsule I’m taking now.  A 100-day supply is less than $30. While Ebola’s around, I plan to keep taking OLE.

THE RESULTS

My average systolic pressure steadily declined from the 150’s to the 140’s by the end of August.  Then it fell to the 130’s and finally to the 120’s, stabilizing for a while in each range then continuing its downward trek. Diastolic declined from the 80’s to the 70’s.  My morning blood sugar swooped steadily down from an average of 182 in June (occasionally rising to 300-400+ in the day), to normally just around 100 now.  I have the feeling if I zapped more, it would have sped things up, but the zapping tired me, like Dr. Clark said it might. I think it was because of the diastolic heart failure. [She warns that the zapper hasn’t been tested on those with pacemakers].  When hubby zaps, he feels nothing except more energy.

By late September, my lungs had cleared of phlegm entirely.  I could do breath exercises again during meditation without getting winded. My hands and ankles  were no longer swollen. I stopped feeling pressure in my chest.  Every day I had energy! I could clean my house, drive, go out without fear of collapsing.  On 9/24 I visited the cardiologist my doctor sent me to. My  EKG was fine and he doesn’t want to see me again for six months!

ABOUT STOPPING MEDS

By the time I stopped taking my remaining prescriptions, I was convinced I could cure myself without them.  This brings me to the placebo effect. What do I mean? It ought not to be possible for even one person’s illness to improve from simply taking sugar pills, much less for this to happen to thousands of people in clinical tests over time.

To me, the placebo effect is absolute proof that our bodies respond to our minds and what we believe.  THEREFORE, IN MY OPINION, IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR MEDS ARE HELPING YOU, YOU SHOULD KEEP TAKING THEM.  I stopped them all only because I felt certain my alternatives would work and only when I saw some proof of that.

WHAT ELSE DID I DO?

I added a daily 10-15  meditation, an incredible four-minute intense exercise called Tabata, and three water fasts to the above.  I’ll describe them in my next post.  Olive Leaf Extract was the key, but I  do believe these helped a lot.