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These amazing statistics are the result of a collaboration between farm- ers and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), considered by many to be the world’s premier agricultural university, which shares their innova- tions directly with farmers—and not just Dutch farmers. Recognizing the need to feed as many as ten billion people by 2050, the university has more than a thousand projects in more than one hundred forty countries and has formal pacts with governments and universities on all six continents. About half of their graduates come from Third World countries in Asia and Africa.
For those interested in learning more about this sustainable system that can both feed and educate the world check out National Geographic, Sep- tember 2017.
Jim Stellick Colorado Springs, Colorado
OSTEOPOROSIS AND
ARTHRITIS COMPLETELY CURED
Being in pain for years—plus being told that there’s no cure—is as
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scary as it is devastating. Luckily for us, doctors can be wrong.
When I was forty-five, I started noticing that my knees hurt each time I kneeled. A couple of years later I took the bone density test and was diagnosed with osteoporosis in my back and hips and osteopenia in my arms. The doctor said it was normal given that meno- pause had already begun for me and that I simply needed to take a calcium pill daily and a calcium fixative pill once a month.
I started feeling slightly better, which continued for around eight years, until the pain in my knees came back, and stronger. For this they gave me corticosteroids, and they didn’t explain what was happening; they actually told me it was something I had to get used to for it was, again, “normal” for osteo- porosis to be increasing and spreading.
When I was fifty-six, I got a new doctor who also said my condition was “normal.” I was also diagnosed with arthritis as my body was stiff every morning when I woke up. With all of these conditions, my energy was van-
ishing and so was my joy for living. I tried a couple more doctors who all said the same: there was no cure and I had to get used to the idea that eventually I would need the help of a walker.
That became my main motivation for seeking some answers outside of medical practice, for I was completely sure I didn’t want to be unable to walk for myself if I had legs, and my body had been perfectly functioning all of my life. This was all mysterious and unclear, and I was starting to suspect it could be a matter of incompetence, so I went to ask Google—now I understand I should have asked Google before— and the only enlightening information I found was in Spanish from Spain. I learned of some really expensive al- ternative treatments that seemed to be working, but we don’t have these here in Perú, and the price of the main ones was out of my reach anyway.
I did find some places where they would apply “ozone” though, which I did while thinking how I could access the other treatments in Europe. In the midst of all this, I decided to radically
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