My dad started smoking when he was 12 years old, was a rebellious teen and left high school to join the Navy in 1962. He married my mother, Judy @ 21 years old and had 6children. He drove 18-wheelers across the country for a living. There was no time to stop to think about food or change a behavior and there certainly didn't seem a need to, after all he liked meat, potatoes, gravy and all the other truck stop slop as he called it. Driving in and out of truck stops, eating a high fat red meat diet, drinking coffee, alcohol, smoking cigarettes and getting no sleep was his lifestyle for more than 35years. His was a hard life! Needless to say he was not a likely candidate for a dramatic lifestyle change. But...as GOD would reveal, my dad's poor lifestyle choices resulted in having 1 foot in the grave by age 57. He was forced to look at change, so, here's where I came in, well....I came in a little sooner in his life than here, but only as his daughter.

I started talking to my dad SERIOUSLY, about making some changes and he was at least motivated to quit smoking. Now.....at 1-3 packs of cigarettes/day, that was no small feat. But, he sought out a hypnotist and got the job done, he quit smoking. I continued talking to him about diet, supplements and exercise, but this was to much, surely by just stopping the smoking he would improve enough to squeeze a few more years out of his body, he was satisfied with that. My dad was not an easy man to reason with and very set in his ways. However, as the next several years revealed, his health was dramatically declining and he found himself in trouble once again just as predicted by his doctors and myself. My dad called me in October 2004 the day before his 2nd cardiovascular surgery in a 3 year period. This time the prognosis was not very good (he had just taken the first step of his second leg into the grave and he knew it).

All I heard on the other end of the phone was a depressed man that didn't think he was going to see but one more earthly day, I said, "DAD HANG IN THERE, when you get out ot the hospital, I am going to show you how to get well, really well!" There was some level of hope that he mustered in his voice after I said that, I could just hear it!

Well GOD was with my dad that day and gave him a third chance to clean up his act, He got out of the hospital with only an angioplasty, WAY better than they thought, however, he was jacked full of pharmaceutical medicine, high BP meds, pain killers etc...,you all know the drill. About a week later I called him, he was in great pain and very depressed, but here was the pivotal moment. I said, "DAD.....stop taking those painkillers, I am sending you some nutrients (Mg and choline along with Pain Guard FortŽ ) and I want you to find a Dr. in your area that does chelation".

"WHAT LATION?", he said. Within a couple of weeks on the nutrients, he was able to get up off the couch, hope returned to his voice, he became VERY motivated & open to what I was saying. He started searching for an alternative doctor near his home in Ohio. He called to let me know that he had found someone, I was shocked. He scheduled 30 chelation treatments and was talking a new language. My mouth over the next 8 months never stopped hitting the floor every time we would talk. He was like a new person, filled with hope, joy, purpose and life. He started feeling a bit better within just a couple of treatments, but had still not done much with his diet. I revisited this with him and told him to go to the library for a few book titles. He said, "OH NO, I am not going to the library, I haven't set foot in a library or read a book in over 40 years, I am not going to start now", I really didn't know if he could read. I asked, "DAD, can you read?" OH man, did that fire him up! The next thing I know, he's at the library and had read three books, one called the blood type diet "Eat Right For Your Type" by D'Adamo. He started eating right for his A- blood type and walking. I wrote a cardiovascular nutrition protocol for him, while addressing the mineral consequences of chelation and within the next few months my dad started detoxing & shedding weight. He started feeling tremendously better at this point. My dad was becoming so excited about the way he was feeling that he became starved for knowledge, He got a computer, which about gave ME a heart attack and started researching alternative medicine online. Oh, did I tell you what his e-mail address is, "altmedicineman@aol.com ". What a transformation! This rough and gruff guy that I grew up with was dramatically changing. He got an e-mail address, was online all the time and was very excited about what he was learning in alternative medicine. He was constantly challenging me with articles and papers he would find on the internet, we were talking everyday. So needless to say, some wonderful healing was going on here for both of us.

OK....so he has an e-mail address, he's feeling much better, he's researching on the internet and now he's talking about going back to work. But, there's more to hear. He finds, on his own, acam.org, an alternative and complimentary medicine site that directed him to another practitioner in his area. They specialized in chelation, intravenous hydrogen peroxide therapy and some other forms of high level wellness therapies. He finished his chealtion there with a few hydrogen peroxide IV's as well and he went back to work after only 7 months, 50 lbs lighter, eating right for his type, feeling better than he has felt in 30+ years and enlightened on how powerful the human body is when it comes to healing itself. All it took was his will to change his life's choices, unburdening the body, supporting it nutritionally and moving. Not to mention the power of the mind as he became excited to learn and change. He started telling everyone about what he was doing and he has started to change others lives as well.

He feels fantastic about that and we, he and I, have a wonderful new & loving relationship! I thank GOD for all the second, third and fourth chances that he gives to us My DAD is one of my human hero!!