| MANNA FROM HEAVEN Families find relief (and miracles) for autoimmune diseases from a nutraceutical By Barbara J. Nosek |
Nevada Woman
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Walking Tall
She had only been married to Don
for a few months the day Jaclyn
Palmer, age 24, noticed that her
right hand had turned purple and
was cold, swollen and numb. It
quickly crept up her arm and down
her right leg. She soon lost the
ability to walk on her own, using
first a cane, then walker and finally
a wheel chair. This all occurred
in the space of five months. Her
doctor said that she had the symptoms
of multiple sclerosis but they
would have to wait until the lesions
showed up on an MRI to give a
definite diagnosis but he said it was
probable MS.
Close friends of the family, whom
Jaclyn had known since she was a
little girl, heard about her fivemonth
trial of going from a happy
newlywed full of life, to a wheel
chair. “They got me a starter kit
and then said to buy Ambrotose [a
Mannatech product],” says Jaclyn.
This was on July 3, 2002. On July
12, Jaclyn awoke and was able to
stretch her legs. On July 14, Jaclyn
used a cane to walk from the
handicapped parking space at a restaurant
to the booth, where she
would celebrate her first anniversary.
On July 16, Jaclyn walked
with no assistance. On July 20, Jaclyn
went to the gym and worked
out for the first time in months.
Jaclyn had set an appointment with
Dr. Blaine Purcell when she first
began to take the
product to see
“what he thought
about it.”
By the time she
arrived to see
him, she was
walking on her
own power.
She had only been married to Don
for a few months the day Jaclyn
Palmer, age 24, noticed that her
right hand had turned purple and
was cold, swollen and numb. It
quickly crept up her arm and down
her right leg. She soon lost the
ability to walk on her own, using
first a cane, then walker and finally
a wheel chair. This all occurred
in the space of five months. Her
doctor said that she had the symptoms
of multiple sclerosis but they
would have to wait until the lesions
showed up on an MRI to give a
definite diagnosis but he said it was
probable MS.
Close friends of the family, whom
Jaclyn had known since she was a
little girl, heard about her fivemonth
trial of going from a happy
newlywed full of life, to a wheel
chair. “They got me a starter kit
and then said to buy Ambrotose [a
Mannatech product],” says Jaclyn.
This was on July 3, 2002. On July
12, Jaclyn awoke and was able to
stretch her legs. On July 14, Jaclyn
used a cane to walk from the
handicapped parking space at a restaurant
to the booth, where she
would celebrate her first anniversary.
On July 16, Jaclyn walked
with no assistance. On July 20, Jaclyn
went to the gym and worked
out for the first time in months.
Jaclyn had set an appointment with
Dr. Blaine Purcell when she first
began to take the
product to see
“what he thought
about it.”
By the time she
arrived to see
him, she was
walking on her
own power.
Autoimmune Diseases
According to the American
Autoimmune Related Diseases
Association, Inc., autoimmune
disease is now the third major
category of illness in the
United States and many
industrialized countries.
Autoimmune disease is a category
of diseases that includes more
than 80 serious, chronic illnesses
that are triggered when the body’s
immune system mistakes its own
tissues as foreign and then attacks
itself, causing various diseases that
can involve almost every human
organ system. Following are some
of the more familiar diseases
thought to have an autoimmune
component:
• Allergies
• Antiphospholipid syndrome
• Asthma
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Cardiomyopathy
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Crohns disease
• Fibromyalgia
• Graves disease
• Hashimoto’s disease
• Diabetes
• Juvenile arthritis
• Mixed connective tissue disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myasthenia gravis
• Pernicious anemia
• Psoriasis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren’s syndrome
• Lupus
• Ulcerative colitis
diseases from a nutraceutical
According to the American
Autoimmune Related Diseases
Association, Inc., autoimmune
disease is now the third major
category of illness in the
United States and many
industrialized countries.
Autoimmune disease is a category
of diseases that includes more
than 80 serious, chronic illnesses
that are triggered when the body’s
immune system mistakes its own
tissues as foreign and then attacks
itself, causing various diseases that
can involve almost every human
organ system. Following are some
of the more familiar diseases
thought to have an autoimmune
component:
• Allergies
• Antiphospholipid syndrome
• Asthma
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Cardiomyopathy
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Crohns disease
• Fibromyalgia
• Graves disease
• Hashimoto’s disease
• Diabetes
• Juvenile arthritis
• Mixed connective tissue disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myasthenia gravis
• Pernicious anemia
• Psoriasis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren’s syndrome
• Lupus
• Ulcerative colitis
diseases from a nutraceutical
He relates the story of a co-worker’s
mother who was a steroid-dependent
asthmatic, and though
********** products were still new
to him at the time, he told them there
was anecdotal evidence that the
products could help her. He left for
a short trip and returned to the news
that for the first time this mom could
walk on a treadmill for an extended
period of time without getting out
of breath. And she also was able to
wean herself off of the steroids.
Shortly thereafter, Dr. Purcell would
use that experience in a life and
death situation. And that brings us
back to Kathy Smelly...
"I feel like I was reborn"
When Kathy says that today, there
are really two interpretations. One
refers to the night in 1996, when it
appeared she might finally lose her
life-long battle with devastating
asthma. She had dealt with one drug
after another (she counts 87 different
ones that she’s taken), which she
says in turn made her susceptible to
a variety of other afflictions.
All too often she would find her
work day interrupted by the need for
a date with oxygen. Sometimes it
would mean a hurried trip home,
sometimes her husband would have
to deliver the device to her work,
sometimes the ever-vigilant security
guards would use the house machinery
- and sometimes it was a fast
track to the emergency room.
And she would revive. Time and
again. But then came the night when
she didn’t. It was an even faster
track to the hospital that night in
1996. And when she arrived, as she
was told later, she was clinically
dead. Kathy went through the classic
markers of a brush with death,
including the sensation of being
“thrown back.”
Her husband had called Dr. Purcell
who they’d previously only known
as her father’s HMO physician. She
recalls Dr. Purcell saying nothing
else has worked... let’s try this. “At
that point, I would have tried anything,”
she says and so she started
on ********** products right away.
“The most miraculous thing was that
in three or four months I noticed a
big difference - I could breathe, I
wasn’t getting short of breath - but
within six months I wasn’t using any
of these [drugs].” And that’s the way
it’s been ever since.
At age 65, she works every day without
interruptions or medical emergencies.
She feels good. She feels
strong. Kathy was reborn not only
into life itself but, even better, into a
brand new healthy life.
mother who was a steroid-dependent
asthmatic, and though
********** products were still new
to him at the time, he told them there
was anecdotal evidence that the
products could help her. He left for
a short trip and returned to the news
that for the first time this mom could
walk on a treadmill for an extended
period of time without getting out
of breath. And she also was able to
wean herself off of the steroids.
Shortly thereafter, Dr. Purcell would
use that experience in a life and
death situation. And that brings us
back to Kathy Smelly...
"I feel like I was reborn"
When Kathy says that today, there
are really two interpretations. One
refers to the night in 1996, when it
appeared she might finally lose her
life-long battle with devastating
asthma. She had dealt with one drug
after another (she counts 87 different
ones that she’s taken), which she
says in turn made her susceptible to
a variety of other afflictions.
All too often she would find her
work day interrupted by the need for
a date with oxygen. Sometimes it
would mean a hurried trip home,
sometimes her husband would have
to deliver the device to her work,
sometimes the ever-vigilant security
guards would use the house machinery
- and sometimes it was a fast
track to the emergency room.
And she would revive. Time and
again. But then came the night when
she didn’t. It was an even faster
track to the hospital that night in
1996. And when she arrived, as she
was told later, she was clinically
dead. Kathy went through the classic
markers of a brush with death,
including the sensation of being
“thrown back.”
Her husband had called Dr. Purcell
who they’d previously only known
as her father’s HMO physician. She
recalls Dr. Purcell saying nothing
else has worked... let’s try this. “At
that point, I would have tried anything,”
she says and so she started
on ********** products right away.
“The most miraculous thing was that
in three or four months I noticed a
big difference - I could breathe, I
wasn’t getting short of breath - but
within six months I wasn’t using any
of these [drugs].” And that’s the way
it’s been ever since.
At age 65, she works every day without
interruptions or medical emergencies.
She feels good. She feels
strong. Kathy was reborn not only
into life itself but, even better, into a
brand new healthy life.
A Transforming Experience
When ********* products went to
work on a woman suffering from
ALS, commonly called Lou Gehrig's
disease, it made believers of
patient and doctor alike. Dr.
Michael D. Schlachter, a board
certified internal
medicine/pulmonary
disease physician, who also serves
as medical director of intensive
care at Summerlin Hospital,
describes this disease as
“debilitating progressive
and terminal.”
Life and times were pretty dismal for
Ethel Stratton, the ALS patient, who
had been sent to a nursing home to
die. When Dr. Schlachter saw her,
she had been paralyzed from the
neck down for the previous three
months and was expected to live no
more than another three months.
The doctor had only recently
learned of *********, and on the
premise that it couldn’t hurt her but
maybe, just maybe, could help, he
started her on a program rich in
these glyconutrients. He picks up
the tale 10 days later when he
walked into her room and found
Ethel with a big smile on her face.
“Nothing, “ he says, “could prepare
me for what I was about to
experience next. She mouthed the
words ‘watch this’... and raised her
legs off the bed. Everything I had
been taught in medical school told
me that what I had just seen was not
possible. It was the only time in my
medical career that my knees
actually became a little weak.”
When ********* products went to
work on a woman suffering from
ALS, commonly called Lou Gehrig's
disease, it made believers of
patient and doctor alike. Dr.
Michael D. Schlachter, a board
certified internal
medicine/pulmonary
disease physician, who also serves
as medical director of intensive
care at Summerlin Hospital,
describes this disease as
“debilitating progressive
and terminal.”
Life and times were pretty dismal for
Ethel Stratton, the ALS patient, who
had been sent to a nursing home to
die. When Dr. Schlachter saw her,
she had been paralyzed from the
neck down for the previous three
months and was expected to live no
more than another three months.
The doctor had only recently
learned of *********, and on the
premise that it couldn’t hurt her but
maybe, just maybe, could help, he
started her on a program rich in
these glyconutrients. He picks up
the tale 10 days later when he
walked into her room and found
Ethel with a big smile on her face.
“Nothing, “ he says, “could prepare
me for what I was about to
experience next. She mouthed the
words ‘watch this’... and raised her
legs off the bed. Everything I had
been taught in medical school told
me that what I had just seen was not
possible. It was the only time in my
medical career that my knees
actually became a little weak.”
“I have my life back”
Dawn Perry was a basically healthy
adult when she was overcome with
a serious illness in January 2000
that would remain a mystery until
June of that year. Then came the
definitive diagnosis: systemic
lupus, one of the most destructive
autoimmune diseases. For Dawn
almost that entire year was
marked by migraine headaches, red
and swollen joints, angina, mouth
sores and unbeatable full-body pain
that reached an apex on November
28th, when she recorded in her
journal, “can’t move, everything
hurts.” Serendipity intervened on
that very day when she received a
call from her aunt in Iowa. When
her aunt heard of Dawn’s condition
she mentioned she had heard
of “this new product” and that
there was a doctor in Las Vegas
that worked with it. That day
Dawn was in touch with Dr.
Purcell and the next day she was
on a Mannatech program.
The next day there was less pain
and her mouth sores had
diminished. The journal records ups
and downs, good days and bad, but
steady progress. Finally on January
2, 2001, her journal trumpets
“woke up pain-free!” After that
some pages are empty because
“I’m too busy living.” but January
18 does document, “more energy
every day no aches, no pains,
no sores.” Today she says, “I can
live again. I have a life!”
Kathy’s X-rays today show no
signs of asthma. Dawn’s blood
tests show no indicators of lupus,
and Jaclyn is out of her wheel
chair. Now that they have learned
first-hand the profound effects of
these simple but necessary sugars,
life is sweet.
Dawn Perry was a basically healthy
adult when she was overcome with
a serious illness in January 2000
that would remain a mystery until
June of that year. Then came the
definitive diagnosis: systemic
lupus, one of the most destructive
autoimmune diseases. For Dawn
almost that entire year was
marked by migraine headaches, red
and swollen joints, angina, mouth
sores and unbeatable full-body pain
that reached an apex on November
28th, when she recorded in her
journal, “can’t move, everything
hurts.” Serendipity intervened on
that very day when she received a
call from her aunt in Iowa. When
her aunt heard of Dawn’s condition
she mentioned she had heard
of “this new product” and that
there was a doctor in Las Vegas
that worked with it. That day
Dawn was in touch with Dr.
Purcell and the next day she was
on a Mannatech program.
The next day there was less pain
and her mouth sores had
diminished. The journal records ups
and downs, good days and bad, but
steady progress. Finally on January
2, 2001, her journal trumpets
“woke up pain-free!” After that
some pages are empty because
“I’m too busy living.” but January
18 does document, “more energy
every day no aches, no pains,
no sores.” Today she says, “I can
live again. I have a life!”
Kathy’s X-rays today show no
signs of asthma. Dawn’s blood
tests show no indicators of lupus,
and Jaclyn is out of her wheel
chair. Now that they have learned
first-hand the profound effects of
these simple but necessary sugars,
life is sweet.
Dr. Schlachter subsequently treated
another
ALS patient who had unfortunately
lost the ability to swallow because
her
particular form of the
disease primarily affected the
upper body
nerves. She was willing
to give the Mannatech
program a 6-month trial,
and at five and a half
months woke up one
morning to find she could
indeed swallow again.
He’s currently treating
yet another ALS case
with these glyconutrients Dr.
Michael Schlachter, MD
another
ALS patient who had unfortunately
lost the ability to swallow because
her
particular form of the
disease primarily affected the
upper body
nerves. She was willing
to give the Mannatech
program a 6-month trial,
and at five and a half
months woke up one
morning to find she could
indeed swallow again.
He’s currently treating
yet another ALS case
with these glyconutrients Dr.
Michael Schlachter, MD
athy has a normal day at work. Dawn
is heading for Hawa. Jaclyn is working
outon a treadmill. So? Well, what makes
this
all qualify as headline news is that in
the not-so-distant past, for these
particular go-getters, all of those activities
would have been squarely in the
realm of the unthinkable. After all,
Kathy had life-threatening asthma.
Dawn suffered from systemic lupus,
and Jaclyn had a probable cause of
MS (see Walking Tall).
And what may be even more remarkable
is that it’s one single resource,
based on the science of nutrition, that
has allowed each of them to return to
normal lives, living just like other
folks. The research and development
was pioneered by a company named
********* that now presents the resulting
products under the same
name. These glyconutritionals, as
they’re called, are all created on a
foundation of necessary biological
sugars that actually work at the cellular
level.
Do they prevent or cure? No, not exactly.
What they do instead is provide
the body with necessary superpowers
that kick start the immune system to
mount its own natural defenses -
to the max.
Las Vegas physician
Blaine Purcell
brought ********* patented glyconutritional
products to the attention
of his friend and peer Dr. Schlachter,
a pulmonary specialist who also
serves as medical director of the
intensive care unit at Summerlin
Hospital. Dr. Schlachter, in turn,
would use it for the first time as a
last resort for a critically ill ALS
patient (see A Transforming Experience).
Both doctors have found it to be an
effective reversing agent for any
number of diseases, many of them
of the autoimmune variety. A case
shown here demonstrates the
allconsuming
effect the autoimmune
condition, asthma, can have on the
life of its victims. And what can
compound the problem, as Dr. Purcell
notes, is that “people who are
suffering from asthma often will
have allergies, and a lot of allergic
people will be asthmatics.”
is heading for Hawa. Jaclyn is working
outon a treadmill. So? Well, what makes
this
all qualify as headline news is that in
the not-so-distant past, for these
particular go-getters, all of those activities
would have been squarely in the
realm of the unthinkable. After all,
Kathy had life-threatening asthma.
Dawn suffered from systemic lupus,
and Jaclyn had a probable cause of
MS (see Walking Tall).
And what may be even more remarkable
is that it’s one single resource,
based on the science of nutrition, that
has allowed each of them to return to
normal lives, living just like other
folks. The research and development
was pioneered by a company named
********* that now presents the resulting
products under the same
name. These glyconutritionals, as
they’re called, are all created on a
foundation of necessary biological
sugars that actually work at the cellular
level.
Do they prevent or cure? No, not exactly.
What they do instead is provide
the body with necessary superpowers
that kick start the immune system to
mount its own natural defenses -
to the max.
Las Vegas physician
Blaine Purcell
brought ********* patented glyconutritional
products to the attention
of his friend and peer Dr. Schlachter,
a pulmonary specialist who also
serves as medical director of the
intensive care unit at Summerlin
Hospital. Dr. Schlachter, in turn,
would use it for the first time as a
last resort for a critically ill ALS
patient (see A Transforming Experience).
Both doctors have found it to be an
effective reversing agent for any
number of diseases, many of them
of the autoimmune variety. A case
shown here demonstrates the
allconsuming
effect the autoimmune
condition, asthma, can have on the
life of its victims. And what can
compound the problem, as Dr. Purcell
notes, is that “people who are
suffering from asthma often will
have allergies, and a lot of allergic
people will be asthmatics.”