Page 8 - Fall2020

Letters

yesterday morning because such expo- least move your bed far away from the joyless existence. I couldn’t understand
sure “rips her out of her socks.” electric meter. why. Plus my kids had cavities, narrow
She goes barefoot whenever pos- Patti Rogers palates, behavioral stuff, asthma and
sible and on Sundays enjoys going to a Miami, Oklahoma caught every bug and illness that was
lake on the other side of Bern. going around.
She explained when growing DON’T FORGET THE MINERALS! About five years ago I met a soil
up she had a lot of health issues. I’m I’ve been on a WAPF diet journey scientist at a farming field day, and
guessing her immune system was not for fifteen years, constantly upgrading he spoke about soil health and human
the best, and perhaps this is why she is my family’s diet to where I’m very health being connected (which I already
so sensitive today. She tells me that 5G happy with how we eat. I have three understood). I asked him afterwards
is not nearly as bad as all the gadgets children, ages eight, eleven and four- why my kids still had cavities when we
we have. (Of course she agrees that teen. My health started to go downhill had such a great diet. He suggested I try
5G is bad, but 4G is just as bad, only after the first child was born (all great Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA).
different) and explains that the worst home-births, all breastfed till two). It So we started on that journey. We sent
exposure is our own doing. went into steady decline over ten years, our hair to Analytical Research Lab
She sleeps on a mattress on the despite my WAPF diet. I was eating in the States (started by Dr. Eck, it’s
floor (no box spring with metal coils), pasture-raised animal meat and fat, one of very few labs that put out good
and uses the Swiss Shield cloth on one organ meats, bone broths, local sea- data) and got back some information
window and on her feather blanket to food including shellfish and fish eggs, that showed us which minerals we were
help shield her while she sleeps. pastured eggs, raw dairy, home-made deficient in, had excess of, and which
I recently bought an EMF tester cheese, raw aged cheese, home-grown toxic minerals we had on board. We
from Germany and will do my best to or local, organic vegetables and some started the whole family on a mineral
make others aware of the dangers. fruit, home-made stone-ground spelt supplement program—specific to each
Judith Mudrak sourdough bread, lacto-fermented sau-
Bern, Switzerland erkraut and kimchi. I made milk and individual (taking magnesium, calcium,
water kefir, and kombucha. We take zinc, selenium, etc, depending on what
ELECTRICITY AND THE HEART fermented cod liver oil and butter oil. we needed).
About fifteen years ago I had to However, my health was in decline. The change in the first two years
wear a heart monitor, which showed I saw doctors, specialists, naturopaths, was profound. I feel like my life
that my heart was missing beats and homeopaths (one homeopath I saw ev- changed completely as my health im-
had a horrible rhythm. I was in my ery month for four years), osteopaths, proved. Not rapidly, but steadily, until
late thirties and had no real ailments. kinesiologists. I saw an Ayurvedic I felt like a completely different person:
We had recently had a house built and doctor and did panchakarma. I took lots of energy, slept eight hours straight
had moved in and lived there for a few Standard Process supplements for about a night, clear-headed, mentally robust,
months. six months and did the GAPS diet. I and happy. Content. That was the best
My doctor asked me where the tried everything. My symptoms were part. My kids’ teeth seemed to harden
electricity came into the house and fatigue, lethargy, no energy, an inabil- up, their behavior changed (happy too),
I realized it was about two feet from ity to sleep properly, waking at three bed-wetting stopped and they slept
where I slept. He laughed and told me in the morning, brain fog, moodiness, better. The changes continued and we
to move my bed as far away from the anxiety, muscle spasms and back ache. phased out the supplements after four
meter outside my walls as possible. On paper I had a great life (lovely fam- years. We did not change what we ate
After that, I never had another issue. ily, beautiful kids, supportive partner, at all while taking the supplements. I
So if you can’t change your room, at fulfilling work) but my reality was a believe the health changes were because
6 Wise Traditions FALL 2020