Sulack - Unhealthy Anonymous: Exposing the Greatest Threat to Your Health and Happiness

Copyright 2015Dr. Pete Sulack

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If you know the enemy and know yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred
battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy,
for every victory gained you will also suffer
a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor
yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

SUN TZU

T hey have come from far and wide over the last decadepeople with no hope. Individuals who have been to specialist after specialist, but who still remain confused and hopeless about the answer to the question, What happened to my health, and how can I get it back? Weve learned how to extend the length of human life, but what good is it if the quality of that life is lousy?

Do you feel lousy? Are you too tired to do all the things you dreamed of doing? Do you take multiple medications every day? Do you spend a lot of time managing your symptoms? If so, you are not alone, and I would say to you, There is hope! If you are one of those people who is searching for answers to your health problems and has put up with dehumanizing surgeries, has been put on medications that have worse side effects than the original conditions, this book is for you! I humbly say to youthis is it! Not the next fad diet or medical craze. Simply, these are the steps out of the mess you are inthe 12 steps to silencing the silent killer: Stress!

We all talk about stress; we all know it is harmful to our health; but we dont ever really address the stressors in our lives. We dont treat the stress systemicallyat its source. We treat the symptoms of stress like high blood pressure, weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, sexual dysfunction, or heart disease; but we dont really treat the stress! We have an enemy in the camp whose face is familiar, whose habits are obviousan enemy with whom we sleep and eat. If we dont neutralize this enemy, we will lose the battle for health and happiness. These 12 seeds or stepping stones will do that. They are the necessary steps to transform your life and healthto help you recapture what you thought was gone forever!

If the captain of the Titanic had realized the importance of slowing down and had recognized the danger of that iceberg in the North Atlantic, history would have turned out differently! So if you are having a health crisis, or if you are headed toward that inevitable iceberg, take heart! You are about to change your own history! Personally, I would rather be at deaths door and be moving in the right direction than to assume that everything is fine and be moving in the wrong direction. Together we will right the ship of your life and get you moving in the right direction.

Will it be new? Absolutely! Will it be uncomfortable and challenging? Sometimes. A lot of what I will share in this book will be a new perspective or paradigm of health. Once you begin to see the need to slow down, and realize the danger of the icebergs ahead of you, change will come naturally, and you will regain a vibrancy, youthfulness, and joy you never thought possible! Until the enemy of stress is exposed, we will never get the victory! So, lets get started!

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the liedeliberate, contrived, and dishonestbut the mythpersistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichs of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. JOHN F. KENNEDY

Deanna had no idea what to do. She had been suffering for nearly 30 years. She had been to numerous doctors, and desperately needed some real answers. Almost 20 years ago shed had two radical surgeries to remove her colon as a treatment for the ulcerative colitis she had suffered with for almost a decade. While this seemed to help, she still wondered why none of the experts had really ever understood her condition or knew how to manage it long term. Surgery had seemed a last resort; and even after shed had that surgery, she found herself constantly returning to the doctor to manage the symptoms that continued to plague her.

Sometime after surgery, she was diagnosed with Hashimotos Thyroiditis, another autoimmune disease. This caused her tremendous anxiety because she knew that most autoimmune issues can eventually lead to more serious health conditions and even death. It was one of the reasons she had agreed to have her colon surgically removed in the first place, and now it seemed as if she were right back where she had started. The doctors gave her prescriptions to manage her Hashimotos. Feeling some relief from her symptoms, she assumed she had finally found her path to recovery through surgery, medication, and regular checkups.

Despite her medications and constant checkups, about three years ago she began to experience a new series of bizarre symptomsnine months of severe hives, frightful chemical sensitivities requiring her to carry an EpiPen at all times, constant heart palpitations, burning feet, restless legs, insomnia, a benign tumor on her parathyroid (which she had to have surgically removed), vision disturbances, bowel troubles (even though she had no colon), hormonal havoc, distressing fatigue, raging anxiety, and uncontrollable weight loss. If all of that wasnt bad enough, depression hovered over her constantly, saturating her mind with dark thoughts and emotions. She wasnt sure what to do. This was no kind of life.

Deannas health issues affected every part of her existence. She was forced to leave the job she loved as a middle school teacher. Over the next two years, she saw 16 different doctors who prescribed a number of different dangerous medicationsenough to stagger the imagination. Despite these, she saw no real change in her symptoms, and her health concerns grew steadily worse.

Deanna wasnt a quitter! She knew she hadnt been brought into this world to suffer without reason. She knew that for every problem there is a solution. She prayed for guidance, and she had faith that she would receive that guidance. She began to study how the body works, and spent hours on the Internet trying to understand her ailments and the possible diseases causing them. She continued to pray and meditate daily over the information she found, looking for what she should do next. As Deanna continued to look for answers, she found out about our clinic and made an appointment for a consultation.