I created this website so I could talk to people about my passion: natural health
About 20 years ago I took my daughter to the doctor for her first visit to the surgeon who was going to be putting tubes in her ears. When I was sitting in the doctor's office I happened to talk to a woman who told me that if my daughter was stuffed up and couldn't hear very well I should take her off milk products for a week. I was aghast! Are you kidding me? She will die without milk? She is only a little girl. She needs milk. What kind of weird advice is this anyway I thought.
I kept my appointment that day but when the surgery date got closer and closer I freaked out and called a few days early to cancel. I couldn't put my little girl through it. But, I had to do something for her problem. So, I took her off milk. It worked! What I found over the years was in the winter she would go off milk and cheese for a week if she was stuffed up and she would be fine. It was quite enlightening and also empowering to think something so complicated could be solved so easily.
A while later I realized one of my children was allergic to DM (Dextromethorphan). She had a cough, I gave her the cough medicine, and her breathing became laboured. Not associating it to a reaction but rather to her bad cold and cough, I took her to the doctor. She was checked out but by now she was not experiencing it anymore. So, I took her home and gave her more cough medicine later on. She started the breathing problems again. I called the doctor, she is getting worse again. I finally figured it out for myself and associated the laboured cough with medicine. I had used a decongestant before but never with DM.
It seems obvious now but back then I was very much looking to others to fix some of the simple problems I could fix myself. There are other examples but that is why I wanted to start this website. For the small "reactions" in my life (like a headache, a rash, a cough) I have started to examine a little more closely what I could do naturally without a lot of fuss to make me feel better (drink more water, stop using that paticular hand cream, lay off the milk for a while) .
I also feel that organic, green, eco-friendly, natural health products are the best medicine for the body and the earth..