A GLAMOROUS LIFE?

There is nothing is glamorous or fun when someone doesn’t feel well.

What you might see in this picture:

Hair, makeup, nails, wardrobe by glam team professionals on a TV/Film set?

What you don‘t see in this picture:

Sore throat, a cold, sinus trouble, fever, and more.

Here is my daughter on set in Canada. While it might look nice—getting nails done, hair styled, wardrobe, etc…there’s nothing nice about not feeling good. We didn’t think much of it because so many of the cast and crew members seemed to have had cold and sinus issues while filming. Seasonal pollen was a contributing factor as was travel, long days, allergies, etc.

With ten hour days, multiple days a week for a month…there’s no time to be sick.

Filming must go on.

IT GOT WORSE

Immediately after we finished filming and returned home from Canada we had to turn right around and drive to Orlando for an audition. The cold symptoms and fever may have been gone, but suddenly, extreme nausea set in. It was sickness from dairy and cheese. Going forward we could cut dairy out. But this day, there was no time to be sick—the audition appointment was minutes away.

The audition must go on.

We had made it through most of elementary school with few sick days, maybe a short lived bug one a year. Yet, so many mystery symptoms that got worse by 5th grade?

The problem(s)

A number of mystery symptoms took their toll on my daughter’s health and had gotten significantly worse through elementary school…and we were able to heal them:

Fevers (103+)

Stomach pain (sometimes severe)

Sore throats

Acid reflux

Allergic reactions to certain foods and skin care products

Headaches

Sore joints

Muscle tremors/shakiness as fevers struck

Extreme fatigue

Nausea

Dark under eye circles

It became so bad that my daughter couldn't even get through her dance classes without feeling sick, shaky and extremely fatigued. It was never like that before.

Something had gone seriously wrong. With repeated temperature spikes, it had to be more serious.

A virus or bacteria? It was clearly not the common cold or seasonal bug, but what to do!?!?

WHERE TO BEGIN?!

We had tested for strep at the pediatrician’s office many times during elementary school--always negative. We had her stomach checked early on as well—no problems.

Therefore, I would try a different route make an appointment with my friend Catherine, a medical intuitive, to see if she could help determine what was behind the problems. We were open to her advice.

It was discovered there was severe bad bacteria, such as strep, causing problems. Bad bacteria in her stomach had gotten so severe that it caused a cascade of problems affecting her overall health.

THE SOLUTION(S)

-Remove gluten, dairy, and eggs

-Cut out all the troublemaker foods that fed the problems/pathogens ❌dairy, ❌eggs, ❌gluten.

-Added a variety of healing foods (lots of fresh fruits, vegetables)

-Added quality vitamin & mineral supplements, such as Zinc, B12 and more.

-Drank celery juice regularly

The result(s)

It has been over three years and the symptoms we dealt with for so many years are gone:

Fever free for over three years! No sore throats, no acid reflux, no stomach pain, no tremors, no dark circles under eyes, no extreme fatigue and more.

Pathogens were killed and/or minimized; thus, creating a stronger immune system.

And the whole family has made this a way of life. We all feel better and didn‘t realize how ‘not good’ we felt previously.

Forever thankful to our friend Catherine Carrigan and to Anthony William aka ‘The Medical Medium’ who helped find solutions to the problems that enabled us to become symptom free 🙏!

Winnipeg, Canada - on set filming a Christmas movie. My son and I were visiting my daughter while filming. See the green drink in the background. It sparked a conversation on celery juice, a conversation on Anthony William, and other green drinks!.

WE WERE WRONG ALL ALONG

All these years we thought we were eating healthy. We had cut out refined sugar, artificial flavors and colors, preservatives, and had a vegetarian diet for several years.

It wasn’t enough. After all…

Organic pizza is still pizza—gluten and dairy.

Organic Mac and cheese is still cheese and gluten.

Organic Ice cream is still ice cream—fat and sugar, sometimes with with additives and other gums, etc.

In order to get better, we had to change everything we thought was right and ‘healthy’. That included removing gluten, dairy, and eggs. We’ve done it and we’re forever thankful we did.

If anyone ever wonders why we carefully make the food choices we do—this is why. To go from sick with symptoms for so many years to symptom free in recent years….there’s no going back.

It’s that dramatic of a difference.

Read the full story here.

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UPDATES:

November 2021 we made a follow up appointment with Catherine as a check in. Michaela’s immune system was over 80%. Significant leaps in comparison to the 22% in late 2019.

January 2022 we had to plan to film for two months in Canada. It would be the first major filming project since covid and since we’ve cleared my daughter’s symptoms. How would it go on set for two months?! It’s hard to be dairy free, gluten free, egg free, etc. To our surprise, we got to set in Canada to find out the director of the film is dairy free, gluten free and had an entire list of vegan friendly restaurants in the Montreal area that his assistant put together. The Child Labor Coordinator was also dairy & gluten free. We weren’t the only ones!