Unlike most people, when I hear a diagnosis from a doctor I politely turn down their offer of drugs and go home to find out what is the cause and how to correct the imbalance. On this occasion it was for my two year old son Esteban who has been coughing for the last six months on and off. Mostly in the mornings and after exercise. Three doctors examined him in Bali and told Sabrina & I without question it was not asthma. But couldn’t say what it was.
Here in France we thought we would get another opinion and it took the doctor just a few seconds listening to Esteban’s chest to make his diagnosis. He felt certain it was asthma and that the doctors in Bali were mistaken. According to him there is no cure for asthma and Esteban would most likely need a Ventolin inhaler for the rest of his life.
Genetics
We quizzed him on what the cause might be and after establishing Sabrina also suffered from asthma when she was a child he concluded that it must be genetic.
Suggesting that Esteban was doomed from birth does not resonate with me at all, for it is my belief that assuming a child is not born with a disease, any imbalance they experience in their body begins as something external.
Could it be that eating habits passed on from parent to child over the course of many generations give the appearance of genetics?
Something for you to consider the next time a doctor slaps the genetic label on your situation.
The conversation turns ugly
The doctor had already started writing a prescription for the inhaler when we followed his diagnosis with a simple question, ‘is there a natural alternative?’
I felt as if he was laughing at us when he responded with a simple no.
We politely explained that we wouldn’t be taking an inhaler until we had done further research. He seemed aggravated by this and somehow the conversation moved on to vaccines. His aggravation turned to anger when we explained that our children were unvaccinated. He gave us his modern medicine speech and ended by calling us ignorant & uncultured. We figured it was time to leave at this point.
I managed to take this photo just as we were leaving his surgery.
A lovely sales cabinet of different inhalers for all those who don’t choose to go home and do the research.
I am able to smile at doctors like this in the knowledge that it is not their fault. The have been educated by a system which feeds off profit and does not account for the simplest permanent cure of all: diet & nutrition.
A close/up on asthma
It is estimated that over 300 million people suffer from asthma and this number is increasing rapidly. According to the World Health Organization asthma is responsible for more than 180,000 deaths worldwide each year and it is the most common chronic illness among the world’s children.
Conventional medications for treating asthma include anti-inflammatory drugs, steroids, “anti lgE” drugs and inhalers (bronchodilators).
While these drugs may help quickly open up the airways, they do not come without risk.
Conventional drugs used for treating asthma, particularly steroids can impair immune function and lead to more serious health problems… studies show that steroids cause permanent, debilitating effects after a single dosage. Dr. John Mills, chief of infectious diseases at San Francisco General
What is the risk free solution?
It took me no more than a few seconds to find hundreds of people online claiming to have permanently healed their asthma through nothing more than a improvement in their diet.
My more devious side wants now to send an email to our new doctor friend with some links to further his education. I shall resist however for this man most likely believes the internet is full of lies and would consequently dismiss the idea without further consideration. Personally I cannot imagine why hundreds of people would feel moved to lie about this on the internet when they have nothing to gain from it. We all know what the drug companies stand to gain by keeping us reliant on them.
Foods which cause asthma
The following list includes some of the culprits:
- trans fats or refined oils
- conventional dairy
- added sugar
- gluten
- processed carbohydrates
- preservatives
The lack of nutrients in certain ‘foods’ stresses the body, making it less able to neutralise toxins and more susceptible to asthma.
Foods which cure or prevent asthma
The following list includes some of the foods which will help:
Brightly coloured carotenoid foods such as tomatoes, carrots and leafy greens
Foods with folate (vitamin B9) such as green leafy vegetables, beans and nuts. Folate helps to reduce allergic reactions and inflammation
Foods with magnesium such as greens, beans, nuts, cocoa: magnesium can induce bronchial smooth muscle relaxation and allow air to get into and out of the lungs more easily
Garlic, onions and mustard seeds
Broccoli, broccoli sprouts, Brussels sprouts and other cruciferous vegetables
Foods with vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid)
High-fiber foods
Sugar & bread
Since discovering sugar & bread Esteban has been able to think of little else when imagining food. His first word of the day is currently ‘Cake!’
Sabrina & I have most likely aggravated the problem by restricting these items initially, leading him to desire them even more and we realise now there has been a direct correlation between his declining nutrition and increase in coughing.
Radical Unschooling
We are in the process of installing a radical unschooling methodology into his life, meaning that not only will he have complete freedom around what he wants to learn, but also around food choices, screen time & bed time. If you are interested to learn why we are doing this please check my article HERE
With insufficient nutrition Esteban is suffering now but it is our hope that when he realises & embraces his complete freedom again he will go back to using his intuition around food. Oddly enough just yesterday after three days of eating bread, chips & cakes we put a plate of raw vegetables in front of him to see what would happen… and he ate the lot. For the first time in months.
Moral of the story
If we stop messing with the energy of our children’s experience by implementing our rules around food and simply trust that they are much more in tune with their body than we are, it is my belief they are more likely as a consequence to have a healthy experience of this world.
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