Ann Boroch - Healing Multiple Sclerosis: Diet, Detox & Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery

HEALING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS:
DIET, DETOX & NUTRITIONAL MAKEOVER FOR
TOTAL RECOVERY

H E A L I N G
M U L T I P L E
S C L E R O S I S

Diet, Detox &
Nutritional Makeover for
Total Recovery

Ann Boroch

Foreword by Ann Louise Gittleman

QUINTESSENTIAL HEALING, INC. PUBLISHING

LOS ANGELES

Library of Congress Control Number: 2006901724

Copyright 2007 by Ann Boroch. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, and information storage and retrieval systems, without the written permission of the publisher.

ISBN: 0-9773446-0-6 (paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9773446-2-8 (eBook)

Published by Quintessential Healing, Inc., Publishing

Ann Boroch

Web site: www.annboroch.com

Phone: 818.763.8282

Cover design: Allison Boroch, Designing Elements

Web site: www.designingelements.com

Interior design and production: Robert S. Tinnon Design

This book is intended to serve only as a resource and educational guide. I cannot assume medical or legal responsibility of having the contents of this book considered as a prescription for anyone. Treatment of health disorders needs to be supervised by your physician or licensed health-care professional.

To my mother :

You are my Rock of Gibraltar

and

to those heroes who

have the courage and tenacity

to conquer disease

C O N T E N T S

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

T
his book is the product of much time, reworking, and editing, and Im grateful to everyone who has helped me to shape it:

• Monica, thank you for making my vision of this book become a reality.
• Allison, thank you for your creativity with the cover.
• Bob, for the production, design, and layout.
• Rena and Sarah, for the careful editing and the eagle eye.
• Nigel for guidance in putting this book out there.

As is true for us all, my journey has been blessed with much support and guidance along the way. I want to express my sincere gratitude to:

• All my friends, teachers, and health-care professionals who have helped me reach this point.
• My patients, who have taught me to be the best I can be.
• The late Dr. William Crook, who was a model of courage in writing his truth and helping so many.
• Dr. Bob, you are a shining lightthank you for being there and supporting my healing journey.
• Peter, you cleared up the cobwebs and gave me the confidence to be a great healer.
• Linda and Perry (Pa), for helping me during my darkest days.
• Josh, for your support and belief in the work I now do.
• Mom, youre my biggest cheerleader and have always been there for me.
• Irene, for your loyal support.
• Jasmine, because without you there was no hope or light at the end of the tunnel. I am eternally grateful for your magnificent gift.

F O R E W O R D

T
rue healing is like peeling the skin of an onion. There is no one single cause, and the various layers differ with each individual.

As the author of twenty-five books on health and healing, I believe with all my heart and all my soul that there is an answer to every diseasewe simply have to look in the right place. The body is an incredible system with an infinite capacity to heal, provided that we lessen our toxic load and provide the right nourishment and environment for regeneration to occur.

The sad news is that today we are living in a sea of toxins that is making us fat and making us sick. For the first time in history, cancer overtook heart disease as the number-one killer of all Americans in 2004.

According to the National Cancer Institute, there are over 100,000 chemicals used by Americans in household cleaners, solvents, pesticides, food additives, lawn care, and other products. And every year, another 1,000 are introduced. One new chemical enters industrial use every twenty minutes. The average person living in twenty-first-century America is now contaminated with up to 500 industrial toxins, the majority of which havent been tested for harmful effects. The CDC has been keeping an eye out on our collective body burden for a while and has found that we are all 100 percent polluted.

Over the past sixty years, our diets, lifestyles, and environment have undergone a revolution, placing a huge burden on our bodys detoxification organs. Our tired and overloaded livers are being exposed to more toxins than they can handle, our GI tracts are sluggish and constipated without enough fiber-rich food; we are lacking critical nutrients needed for the livers detox pathways, and the livers detox enzymes are being inhibited by common medications, excess sugar, caffeine, and trans fats.

Cancer rates have risen between 20 and 50 percent since 1970. Breast cancer will impact one out of eight American women if we live long enough. Asthma has increased by 75 percent since 1980. The diagnosis of autism has increased nearly 20 percent every year.

Type 2 diabetes is epidemic among young people in their thirties, while the incidence of autoimmune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis has gone through the roof.

And so, I am very pleased to say that Ann Borochs book is right on the mark!

Her tumultuous four-year journey of reversing multiple sclerosis taught her firsthand to examine the layers that the body and mind take on to create disease. The result of her journey is a landmark book that identifies and unifies seemingly unrelated root causes that go beyond petrochemicals and targets candida/fungus, diet, silver fillings, parasites, vaccinations, geopathic stresses, trauma, and genetics, which are underlying hidden factors present in almost all autoimmune diseases. Best of all, Ms. Boroch provides workable, natural solutions for a practical self-help program that anybody with a desire to get well can follow.

Written in four parts, consisting of her personal journey, the causes of MS, and the solutions, Ms. Borochs book also provides a wonderful treatment section chock-full of user-friendly charts, supplementation programs, recipes, and resources.

Ann Boroch will inspire and enlighten you. By following her program, you will not only experience more energy, heightened vitality, and mental clarity, but your overall health is sure to improve. Ms. Boroch is to be congratulated for her courage and knowledge that disease is a wake-up call to clean up your act from the inside out!

ANN LOUISE GITTLEMAN, PH.D., M.S.

New York Times best selling author of
The Fat Flush Plan,
Before the Change, and
The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet

P R E F A C E

M y doctor leafed through page after page of my medical chartEEG results, neurological exams, evoked potential tests. I had undergone two weeks of tests hoping to learn what was causing the spasms, numbness and tingling, and other neurological symptoms that had left me barely able to walk on my own.

Well, Ann, he said, the good news is, you dont have cancer. The bad news is you have MS. With those words, I became a statistic, one of an estimated 500,000 North Americans, and three million people worldwide, who are afflicted by the debilitating disease of multiple sclerosis.

Incurable experiment with chemotherapy slow the inevitable deterioration.

He went on speaking, but I was so much in shock that his words made no sense to me. Traditional Western medicine had failed to cure me of serious mononucleosis five years earlier. I had no confidence that it could help me now.