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How I Reversed My Son’s ASTHMA.

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How I Reversed my Son's Asthma

It took me a while to get up the courage to write this post.

I didn’t quite want to say my son is cured of asthma, even though we haven’t had to use any inhalers or steroids for over a year. Saying any chronic illness is “CURED” is pretty bold and I felt like “REVERSED” is a much better word. Could my son still have the tendency for asthma? Will he have a flare-up in the future? Maybe. But right now, he’s doing amazing. And I wanted to share his story.

The Merry-Go-Round (also known as healthcare):

It took 6 months of doctor’s visits before my son was officially diagnosed with asthma. He was two years old, and he would become tired and flushed after any amount of physical exertion. He would then complain of a tummy ache, start to cough, and then throw up. It happened like clockwork.

Our family doctor wanted to focus on the tummy ache and recommended a pediatric gastroenterologist, who recommended a endoscopy to rule out any serious digestive ailment. After the endoscopy, we were sent away with a clean bill of health and a “shrug of the shoulders” diagnosis. The only clue we had was that the anesthesiologist who assisted in the endoscopy told us that he noticed our son didn’t have very good “lungs,” not to mention some pretty massive tonsils. He recommended we “check that out” as well. We went away from these string of experiences with a big fat question mark.

“Thanks a heap, Doc! How much do I owe ya?”

Our only solution was to restrict physical activity. Poor kid. Let’s just say we had a lot of indoor fun time. Not very healthy, but as young parents we thought we were doing the best thing for him.

We noticed the wheezing and coughing and subsequent vomiting would also happen whenever he got a cold. One time the wheezing and coughing got so bad that we were introduced by our doctor to the nebulizer, also known as the SPECIAL MACHINE in our family.

Over the course of 6 years, I have literally spent hours administering nebulizer meds to my son.

After the 3rd or 4th cold and subsequent round of prescriptions, my doctor said, “Well, let’s just officially say your son has asthma. But don’t worry. Every kid has asthma these days. He’ll fit right in.” I kid you not.

From my nursing background I was able to use my stethoscope to assess his wheezes and coughs. This helped so much because I could assess his breathing before administering meds. I believe EVERY parent should own a stethoscope and learn how to use one. You will be able to tell the difference between a cough and wheezing and effectively reduce unnecessary medication.

Sickness teaches and nutrition heals.

When my OWN quest for health began and I started to look to nutrition for health, my eyes were opened to a whole new way of living and healing.

Ever so gradually, I made changes to our family’s diet. Our original diet consisted of:

  • Regular meat and eggs
  • Cow’s milk and cheese
  • White flour
  • White sugar
  • Vegetable oils
  • Soda
  • Fishy crackers
  • Organic eggs
  • Raw goat’s milk but still-pasteurized cow’s cheese
  • Whole grains
  • Part refined sugars and part honey
  • Fruit snacks
  • Fruit leather
  • Healthier vegetable oils
  • Soda once a week
  • Fast food once a week

All of this turned into a diet full of…

I was so obsessed with my own healing that it took time for me to notice that my son wasn’t having any more attacks. At first, I thought it was because he wasn’t getting as sick. There really weren’t a lot of colds or flus in our house anymore. Even if there were, they were 1-2 days long at most.

At my son’s 8-year-old checkup, our pediatrician recommended a flu vaccine. Although I did vaccinate my children as babies, I told the pediatrician we would pass. He promptly told me that if my son got this year’s flu that he would literally end up in the hospital. His history of asthma, he said, made it too risky to skip the flu shot. I again declined and he told me I just sealed my fate.

“Thanks a heap, Doc. How much do I owe ya?”

{I would like to say that I am not totally against doctors. I have a very good medical background and also believe there are some amazing docs out there. This one just wasn’t one of ’em.

Well, the doctor was right about one thing. My little Ethan did get the flu.

And it was no fun for about 4 days. But guess what else? He did not get one wheeze or cough or even a hiccup. He had a fever and felt yucky. But that lovely nebulizer stayed stored in the medicine cabinet, where it still sits today.

We’ve gone a year without any asthma medication, except for one time that Ethan became flushed at a soccer game and I freaked out and made him take a puff of Albuterol even though he said he was fine. He wasn’t wheezing at all. I was just being a mama.

The biggest change that I believe REVERSED my son’s asthma was…

I noticed a significant reduction in my son’s asthma when we made the switch to raw goat’s milk. Actually, that was one of the major reasons we decided to raise and milk goats. Since goat’s milk has smaller protein and fat globules than cow’s milk, it digests in about 30 minutes compared with 3 hours. So much easier! My son also had a lot less phlegm from drinking goat’s milk, which I believe is an indicator that it helped with his asthma. Phlegm = inflammatory response.

Before you comment: You may think this milk sensitivity was just a tendency in my son, but in fact MANY asthmatic children have undiagnosed milk sensitivities allergies and improve greatly on raw milk.

When our goats were dry and we had to purchase milk for a few months, we bought raw cow’s milk and he did fine on that too. When we decided to buy some store-bought organic, (but pasteurized and homogenized) cow’s milk, I noticed him coughing right away. Even I felt like I personally had a stuffy nose and phlegm in my throat. Homogenization makes the globules even bigger and harder to digest, which causes a lot of problems.

What I think made the asthma go away altogether was our huge reduction in processed foods. I don’t purchase any processed food anymore, although being kids, they get some probably a couple times a month from a soccer game or birthday party. I let them make their own decision whether or not to partake in that food because I don’t believe in depriving them.

I am confident that as long as we continue with our Traditional Whole Foods lifestyle, continue to drink raw milk and avoid processed foods as much as possible, my son will not be suffer from asthma.

 

My son went from needing an inhaler and steroid every day, to only needing it when sick or during physical activity, to never needing it.

So take it from me, nutrition can reverse and heal your body. I hope this inspires other moms out there who spend their nights up with that nebulizer that it CAN get better. Just try to educate yourself and be brave enough to make changes to your family’s diet. A little change can go a long way!

You can drink raw cow, goat, or even sheep milk! I’ve tried it and it’s amazing–and I’m super picky! If you’re worried about raw milk, (I was too, at first), know that there are millions of raw milk drinkers out there that do perfectly fine and haven’t once been made sick from the milk. We personally keep our milk very clean and healthy, as do MANY raw milk farmers. If you’re interested in searching for a raw milk source near you, try searching with this Real Milk Finder.

I wish you the best. Remember, changing your family’s diet happens one step at a time. But small changes can bring about great miracles!

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How I Reversed my Son's Asthma

Sources:
https://www.realmilk.com/health/asthma-or-brucellosis/

ABOUT DANELLE

DaNelle started to take an interest in a healthier lifestyle after suffering from two debilitating chronic diseases. On a mission to create a farm of her own, DaNelle forced, or rather 'lovingly persuaded' her husband to purchase a ranch home on an acre of land and transform it into their very own urban farm. DaNelle blogs at Weed 'em & Reap where she writes about the sustainable backyard farming, traditional food, & natural remedies.

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  2. I have asthma for almost 2 months now, it starts when we have sports fest in our school. While we are playing track and field I feel something in my chest, I’m having a hard time to breathe and I felt dizzy that time. Our coach told us that it’s better for me to try swimming because it will help me to breathe clearly. But my friend told me to try marijuana instead of swimming can help me to reduce my hard time breathing. I don’t know who will I listen to. Has anyone tried marijuana as an alternative medicine for illness? Can somebody help me with my problem? Thanks in advance.

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  3. To stop asthma use paradigm shift. Lip pressure controls relaxation of chest airways. Concentrate on using lip force to relax lung airways by a reflexloop of the autonomic nervous system.
    1) Press on skin between nose and upper lip with fingers and feel a sort of “inhaler effect”.
    2) Now change over to getting this effect by pressing lips together.
    3) Get used to this.
    4) Sleep with mouth shut.
    5) Get off medication with appropriate advice.

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  4. I had a mild bronchitis, and was carrying on ok. When one day on Dec.22nd 2017 I had a little breathing problem and my doctor admitted me to ICU ward for one day and general ward for the next 3 days and in the course he pumped with 30 injections and was discharged. My problems started from that time onwards and I get breathing attacks regularly. It became worse on 25th Feb.2018 and was admitted again and this time I was in ICU ward for 3 days and general ward for 2 days during the course he pumped me with 40 injections, thus making it a total of 70 injections in 2 months, and he also advised my wife that I should me admitted another 4 to 5 times in 2018 and next year I should get a lung transplant. I thought that enough is enough and I started to get ayurvedic treatment. Just last week one person advised me about unpasteurised goat’s milk and I have been now taking it for the last 6 days and hope for the best

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  5. I had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for 15 years. My first symptoms were dry cough, chest tightness and shortness of breath. My first chest x-ray only showed bronchitis. Finally I went to a pulmonologist, After many tests it was a CT scan that showed COPD, and scarring in my lungs. I quit smoking 17 years and 6 months ago. But the damage has been done. I got to the point I couldn’t catch my breath and was coughing so hard I thought the top of my head would blow off. The day after I had the scan I was on oxygen the next night and was on it 24/7. December 2017 my pulmonologist and I decided to go with natural treatment and was introduced to Mbeki Herbal Clinic natural organic COPD Herbal formula, i had a total decline of symptoms with this COPD Herbal formula treatment. The infections, shortness of breath, fatigue, dry cough and other symptoms has subsided. Visit Mbeki Herbal Clinic official website
    I have had great improvement with my over all respiration with this product and i breath very much easier, i can never be thankful enough to nature

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  6. I have been diagnosed COPD and chronic emphysema and also the antitrypsin deficiency for over 12 years. My principal symptom has been a heavy feeling in the chest. I cannot breathe well while lying flat on my back or on my right side.
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  7. I’ve had issues with my body being easily tired and joint pains since. Drinking Au Bon Broth has helped me improve my health. I can say that there really are benefits to drinking bone broth and it’s not just a fad.

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  8. It took me to about reach about 45 years of age, to finally catch on, that an unknown intolerance to gluten and cow’s milk dairy products, were the triggers for my lifelong asthma. After I spent a year on a Candida diet, detoxing gluten and dairy from my diet, my asthma literally disappeared entirely without a years time. I didn’t use meds or inhalers at all for the longest time (with my doctor’s supervision and permission, while I experimented with the food withdrawals). Only when I backslid, and went back to eating small amount of gluten, and butter, did my wheezing sneakily return. I wish I had known this years ago. My sister has had severe asthma all of her life, and her lungs are scarred from her childhood coughing bouts and asthma attack. How much pain and suffering we could have avoided, if we had only known, it was from FOOD!! :O and not some hereditary genetic curse that could only be controlled with medication.

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  9. I have struggled with asthma for years. I recently bought vitamin d3 and it has really helped. I also noticed that corn is a trigger food. I also understand that exercise reduces asthma attacks. I am trying theses things and am eating a fairly organic diet and it seems to be working. Now I just need to figure out how to host my immunity! God bless you all!

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  10. Incredible… I have been having exercise induced asthma (which I believe is Hay-Fever / Ragweed / Autumn Allergy related) off and on pretty much my whole life. I had eczema as a kid and would always spit up the formula. I now see in my adult life similar patterns going on, because when I drink straight cow’s milk (I even tried RAW milk with the same reaction), I end up with sulfur burps (smell’s like rotten eggs). The weird part is, anything else I eat that happens to be milk derived, I have no real symptoms (except now, I believe it’s causing my allergies and asthma – especially when I lift weights or exercise, I get jittery and can’t catch my breath). My mom was also diagnosed with Celiac Disease (allergy to wheat). I think wheat and dairy products are the culprits to allergies and asthma.

    Side-Note : I have tried goat’s milk and was fine with that. I had no sulfur burps when drinking goat’s milk, but I much prefer to drink almond and/or coconut milk instead of any animal dairy products!

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  12. My 12 years old sone was diagnosed with asthma after one week persistent cough. No family history of asthma. Doctor was very fast to hand in the inhaler and Rx. (Though they get commission for this, so why not). My son is now 15 years old and I have successfully controlled his asthma just by doing one thing. Never use inhaler, steroids. I researched hard and found that jaggery is the best thing which keeps your lungs clean and strong and that is why I started giving my son around 1-2 grams of jaggery every day. For more information please read http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov “Enhanced transloction of particles from lugs by jaggery”. The easiest, cheapest and sweetest way to keep the asthma at bay. All industrial workers (like people work in coal mines and construction in India) keep consuming jaggery to keep the lungs problems aside.

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      • I know this comment is over a year ago. Jaggery is the unrefined sugarcane product from India. That’s what was used in India before refined sugar & it still used in preparing desserts & medicinal preparations. I’ve seen small conical shaped ones in the Mexican food aisle but they don’t taste the same & they are hard as a rock. Good jaggery is dark brown & usually a huge bowl shaped or small & the outside is slightly flaky & they taste almost like fudge with hints of citric acid. I’m sure you can buy them online.

  13. Please help! I have had asthma all my life. 3 years ago we switched to 100% Organic diet, no processed (meaning junk and unnecessary things like juice or chips) foods. NO EXCEPTIONS. I took food with me wherever we went. Parties, dinners, parks, special occasions, weddings. I didn’t care about the comments others were making, this was best for us and I don’t believe in “cheating” when it comes to health. My little ones (7 and 4) love the way we eat and have never wanted to eat what others were eating. Even when offered they would decline. I make almost everything from scratch. Copying your list, we do everything the same except for

    Organic meat
    Organic eggs
    Raw goat’s milk and cheese, with only occasional pasteurized cow’s cheese-we don’t have dairy save for butter as we don’t really care for it
    Whole grains prepared properly-i stopped gluten after finding it was responsible for my daughter’s eczema and it messed me up in many different ways including bloating, headaches, sugar spikes, fatigue
    Only honey and sucanat
    Organic butter
    Lard-we never felt the need since we always use olive, coconut and grass fed butter
    Coconut and olive oil
    No soda
    Homemade broths
    Fast food rarely ever- NONE EVER, any food we eat has been prepared only by myself
    Fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables

    I know you are not a specialist, but honestly, that doesn’t even matter anymore in today’s world. I find that real stories from “regular folk” like you hold more truth than what the “doctor’s say”. And if it worked for your son, why not try? What’s the worst that could happen; I’m healthier? hehe. Could you say that’s its because i don’t eat gluten and dairy that I’m not reversed? I’m seriously asking for advice!!

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    • I forgot to mention that I noticed gluten also gave me asthma more often. I trialed it for 3 weeks and without fail, I had asthma immediately after having gluten which is why i thought it would disappear with the absence of it :(((

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      • I Jo, I’d suggest the problem in your diet might be cow milk. I don’t have asthma but generally, milk is really acid, and is just unecessary in a diet. I fought 3 years of migraines and acid refluxes by stopping the consumption of cow milk products. Instead I have sugarfree oat milk instead 🙂 and cheese, well, unfortunately nothing instead, but it’s that or acid refluxes and migraines. x) Hope it helps you with your asthma!

    • Hi Jo,

      I can understand how frustrating that might feel to try to sacrifice and do everything possible, and still not see results. One thing that helped me a TON was doing a hair mineral analysis. That helped me see gaps in my nutrition and I could supplement accordingly. There are a lot of great hair mineral analysis doctors, I use Garrett Smith in Tucson, AZ.

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      • Hi Lisa,

        I actually put that we don’t have any dairy save for a bit of organic grass fed butter every once in a while 🙁

  14. We are vegetarian and slowly transitioning to gluten and dairy free for my sons asthma! Wish us luck! Being veg was pretty effortless but dairy gluten free has many more challenges! I am an RN as well and I will do anything in my power to avoid steroids in my young child! I am so happy this worked for your son! How inspiring! Thank you for sharing!

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    • Have you thought about nourishing herbal infusions. Mullien? I have been drinking Mullien infusions for almost two years to heal my lungs from smoking for over 20 years. I’m 37 that used steroids for my psoriasis. I drink around 8 to 12 quarts of linden a month. Five to seven quarts of stinging nettle a month. Comfrey only about four quarts a month. I drank two quarts of Mullien each week sometimes three to heal my lungs. I rotate my infusions as I feel what I need. Red clover is also great for lungs. Susun Weed! In fact I was so inspired and really love the herb world. I want to open a small dried herb shop with my own homemade body butters and make oils and tinctures and tell people to make their own or buy mine!!! I ordered butters from moutian rose herbs for years to heal my psoriasis!!! Always looking at the dried herb not knowing anything about them, and one day this woman I thought looked like lsunshine was on the cover. I said she looks like sunshine but no thanks. I thought to myself. I don’t like gimicks. I was there for the butters. I gave her a chance. Cleared my skin right up with a few months. Unexpected. It’s great. And I feel good. You may not like everything she teaches or says daily or weekly but you might like some things she says and use it.

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  15. I’ve had asthma since I was born. It was intense when I was young, right up until I turned about eight. Then it cleared up pretty well. It returned briefly when I was 12, but disappeared (mainly) from the ages of 14-20 (except for one instance where I pushed myself too hard… couldn’t handle the mountain my camp group was hiking). After twenty it has returned, more severe than I ever remember.

    Asthma waxes and wanes, is my point. The changes to your lifestyle may have contributed to aiding your son’s symptoms, but there’s a good chance that they had very little to do with it. The only thing you can do to reasonably protect from asthma is to make sure your air is as clean as modern convenience can make it. Then you hope.

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  16. I have asthma and I have to use my nebulizer every day…. The strange thing is – I never ever had problems up until after I had a really bad case of pneumonia. And ever since then I have never been breathing quite the same. Though yes I agree a healthy diet is important – but what do you say to someone whom is 1 – lactose intolerant and doesn’t drink milk except in when I have to cook with it. And even then I use Almond milk. I already eat healthy food for the most part. But still have no luck with reversing the affect of asthma. I hate having to use that damn nebulizer and I would love to not ever have to use it again.

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  17. My son was “diagnosed” with asthma a year ago at age 3 after spending 3 days in the hospital with pneumonia. Although he’s on Flovent inhaler with the spacer, he has never ever had a single asthma attack. At the most he gets a little stuffy and sometimes has a slight wheeze, which in my opinion is from being congested. This medication really sucks for a young child, it gets him hyper and sometimes uncontrollable. He was never like that before, and only started once he began taking Flovent. And I don’t believe in coincidence, things happen for reasons. But I honestly think he really doesn’t have asthma, and I want to take him to a specialist to find out what’s really going on. I don’t really care for the doctors in my area, it seem like they go in and check you out really quick and then get rid of you like you’re some sort of nuisance to them. But I really like your article and am going to try this the best I can along with going to see a pediatric specialist in respiratory diseases. Thank you for all the wonderful ideas and tips and congratulations on your sons well-being with this disease.

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    • One thing to consider is that maybe he isn’t having attacks BECAUSE he’s using the Flovent. What you should definitely do is talk to one of the doctors or your son’s asthma nurse about changing from Flovent to something else, like Clenil, which does the same thing but is a different steroid.

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  18. Switching to nutritional diets can do wonder for any disease even lots of disease can be prevented from arising by these high nutrition foods. So if you have started to avoid fatty and unhealthy food then half of the battle is won.

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  19. Just stumbled across this, what a fantastic story! So good to hear some good news on this subject for a change.

    I started to get asthma symptoms in adulthood and know just how frightening an attack can be – can’t imagine how a child would cope with it, must be absolutely terrifying. Really pleased to hear that you’ve found ways to get a positive result, well done.

    I recently wrote a post on how changing the heating in your home can also have a dramatic effect on respiratory problems (https://underfloorheatingexpert.com/health-benefits-underfloor-heating/). Did you know that radiant heating can reduce the amount of dust mites in the home by up to 80%? Unbelievable stat.

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  22. I would love to give this a shot for our four year old with asthma. Do you have any posts about how to start or transition? I sort of feel clueless with the whole “whole foods- going organic” thing. I feel like we eat healthy, but I would love to go 100% with it four our four kids.

    Thanks! Becky @ Yourmodernfamily.com

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  23. Oh, I’m so glad I stumbled across your blog just now. Thank you so much for sharing your story! I too have pretty severe asthma, from age 13 – present (age 55), but over the last year and a half I have been discovering the very same thing (better late than never). I cut out process food and bev. & started drinking raw milk and I (and the whole family) are never sick anymore (Praise the LORD). I still do have asthma, but I have discovered that processed food brings on wheezing within seconds. Your article has encouraged me to be super vigilent in eating ONLY clean food. (we use EO’s too!). So happy to hear your son is doing so well. Yes, I think you have “cured” him. 🙂 Rejoicing with you!

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  24. Thanks for sharing your story. It reminds me I really need to share how powerful nutrition is when it comes to fighting pulmonary function diseases.

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  25. Hi. I must say that, I really do believe on you blog. I’ve been diagnosed of asthma and worst of it level up to severe coughing , my doctor gave us a lot of medicines, for phlegm , Claritin for allergies and antibiotics., for over a years I always taking medicines and still after a couples of months I still have cold and I loss weight . One day.. A family friend recommend raw milk, I’ve tried it and it really works.. My coughing is not like before that during sleeping hours I can’t sleep because of coughing, but when I tried the raw milk, I didn’t experience to cough. And now I really believe RAW MILK. IT HELP ME A LOT.

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  27. Hi DaNelle,
    I was also almost in tears after reading this. Five years ago after my aunt died of cancer and I adopted her 13 year old son and moved in with my mother to help raise him and my two sisters we changed our diet drastically from the canned/processed/fast food we were eating to a gradually more traditional diet, day by day, year by year. We had no real blue print, we went off blogs and instincts.
    We just bought our first batch of fresh eggs a couple of weeks ago thanks to this blog, fresh goat milk will be ready in a couple of days! There is truley no better feeling than seeing your family healthy and happy. We put the nebulizers in the closet about a year ago also! No more inhalers! No more allergies! Really, it almost like magic.
    It also gives the bravery to raise children under with confidence in other aspects. And it shows. I can say all my teenagers are smart as heck.

    Thank you for your blog!

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    • Wow Raquel! This brought tears to my eyes! Thank you so much for commenting! I truly feel that we can make a big impact on our health by making changes in our diet! I’m so proud of you!

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  28. Wow! A rational medical sceptic! I applaud your rational but healthy attitude towards life. These days it seems like parents feel obligated to take an “all or nothing” attitude towards both their own and their kids’ health, i.e., if you’re going to do draw then you have to do “raw everything.” If you’re going to do mostly veg, then you should go vegan, and you should shield your kids from every single last cookie they may receive at Grandma’s house. I live in a pretty crunchy granola town and I often get sideways glances when I just shrug at the occasional “processed whatever” my toddlers get at their part time daycare. I just tell people, “We eat so healthy at home that I can afford to relax and trust their bodies to remain healthy when they’re away from me.” Additionally, even the grandparents are on-board because it makes these particular grandkids super easy to spoil… All it takes is a cup of strawberry yogurt or a cookie! No need for over-priced candy or brand new battery operated gee-gaws!

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  29. My name is Dhaval Jani. after reading your story i couldn’t hide my tears. because i m
    facing the same situation you already had. this is the same story in my house.
    my son is 4 years old. there is no history of asthma in our home. it just happened when
    he was 3 years old. the only thing i m doing is not giving up. your story has inspired me.
    go back to nature. go back where we came from. my son has been on strict diet for year.
    no all purpose flour, no fastfood no nothing. but he still gets wheezing. should i try goat milk? and also thanks for your story. very inspirational.

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  30. My son is 6. He’s had asthma symptoms since he was 3. Every cold or virus would turn into a chest or sinus infection. He was a nebulizer for 2 years and is now on an inhaler. I took him off of cows milk 2 months ago and he’s doing much better. He’s had 2 colds and did not need any antibiotics! I can’t have a goat where we live, but do you have any recommendation on a goat’s milk that I can buy in the store. I just found Meyer’s goat milk in a quart size in the dairy section dairy. I’ve also seen canned goat milk. Any recommendations? Any help would be appreciated. 🙂

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  31. Thank you fir sharing your son’s story. My oldest also had asthma when he was younger. After to many doctor visits and hospital stays we thought it would never improve. Around the age ten we stopped taking the daily medications, switched to a healthier diet, no flu shots and more exercise. I can proudly say my son is now a Marine with NO asthma issues and no daily medications.
    It warms my heart to hear of another family that was able to overcome asthma.

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  32. You’ve inspired me to raise a dairy animal when we get a house in the country. I love your blog! How do sheep compare to goats as far as their milk and the ease and cost of raising them? They just seem easier and gentler but maybe not.

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  33. Be careful. I am an asthmatic, I have been since diagnosed at 14. Mine is allergy related as well. I have changes all of my diet to organic and still to no avail. I wish the best for you and your young son that your journeys continue down this path.

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  34. Hello! I’m curious if your son ever had to take oral steroids (prednisilone) and if so for how long? I love what you’ve posted and am gonna try it ASAP but right now my son has been congested/wheezing for a couple weeks and is on his third round of steroids which I hate! I was just hoping you could share with me on your experience with this situation. Thanks for the info:)

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    • Yes, my son did have to do steroids. We even did a daily steroid for a while there. It’s definitely something I’d try to work towards not needing, but sometimes in the midst of inflammation it is necessary.

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  36. I have COPD and I am determined to reverse it! Thank you for this article. It has given me encouragement and helpful advice!

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  38. Nice article, thanks! My husband has asthma and I’ve been wanting to try switching to raw dairy for a while, but it’s hard to find a convenient source for it here in my part of California.

    Just wanted to clarify: you mentioned homogenization makes the fat globules “even Iarger and harder to digest,” but I thought homogenization actually reduces the size of the globules through high pressure spraying in order to keep them uniformely suspended in the milk. Did I read something wrong?

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  39. My daughter is milk-allergic and she has just started to develop a wheeze when she exercises (and bronchitis when she gets sick.) She had numerous food allergies which are now being crossed off one by one. She eats plenty of grass-fed ghee and high-vitamin butter oil (both homemade) and takes cod liver oil daily. I’ve been working my way up the good-better-best chart and am keeping track of it with magnets on my fridge. Most things we get are better or best now! I’m hoping with time and real, nourishing food her body will heal itself. Your post gives me hope! (her wheezing is definitely NOT caused by dairy products, though!)

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    • I am experiencing the same thing as you have only a year later. My son, age 3, has started asthmatic symptoms. It first began with the virus that circulated last fall. We’ve had 3 repeat occurrences though. He’s always been allergic to dairy, so he uses almond milk for his beverage. Thus dairy can’t be his issue. We eat healthy homemade mostly organic food and have done so for most of his life. Thus I feel discouraged. His flare-ups are increasing instead of decreasing. The last flare up involved a tummy ache which was a new symptom. The other times it always seemed to result from a cold.

      DaNelle, any thoughts on the tummy connection to all this since he doesn’t eat any dairy and does mostly follow your recommended nutritional plan? (The only non organic he eats regularly is calcium fortified oj.)

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      • I would focus on boosting his immunity, and getting him outside in fresh air and dirt. It sounds simple, I know, but it can help for asthmatic kids who are triggered by illness to build immunity from bacteria outside and to get fresh air:)

  40. I am facing the same problem with my son who is now 3 years old. It took almost a year and half tondiagnose his problem. He complains the same tummy pain-coughing -throwing out.is it possible for me to talk yo you….or chat with you.
    Swapna

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    • I don’t do personal calls, but it is good to rule out other things, in my son’s case, it was asthma, but it would be a good idea to get your son checked out by a holistic doctor first.

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  42. I wish I had known about healing foods when my asthmatic son was eight. He’s now 18 and it’s very difficult getting him to dump the junk and eat more nutritionally dense foods. I’m still working on him. Great article! Btw, I have LaMancha dairy goats and our milk tastes like cows milk too. However, I think the butterfat in the Nigerian milk keeps the flavor from turning goaty as quickly.

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  43. Hello! Thank you so much for the enlightening story. My older two kids, aged 4 and 2, have been consuming pasteurized cow milk for a very long time. Bronchitis. allergies, eczema are the common things that we noticed. I put my daughter off dairy, and feel that she does not cough at all and during the doc’s visit, her chest is declared clear. However, my 2 year old son relies primarily on milk. He has more bouts of uncontrollable cough and his lungs are full of phlegm. Luckily, I was able to find raw goat’s milk in my area today (I live in Dubai). I have been searching hard as to whether to boil the milk or not before giving it to my kids. There are mixed responses. Can you please share if you boil your milk and if yes, then for how long? Thanks a ton.

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  44. I am surprised that you have continued to eat grains. We found that eliminating grains ( basically eating Primal/Paleo style) drastically helped everyone in the family. My daughter doesn’t have asthma attacks anymore and none of us have had a cold or flu type bug that has lasted more than a day. I used to wake up every morning congested or with a runny nose, but not anymore.

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  45. My 8 yr old daughter has been diagnosed with Asthma a few years now. Not that severe,
    she only needs her meds during attacks, which usually occurs 1/mo. We have learned to treat her at home with nebulizer, qvar, albuterol. I’ve tried all sorts of home/natural remedies, nothing has really worked her attack went through the 4 day cycle and then she was fine….
    At the end of her last attack I stumbled upon black seed (cumin) oil. After reading some online reviews (and youtube), I was determined to try it that day. We gave her a tspn that night, and it worked wonders, her cough subsided very quickly (< 1 hr) and she slept like a baby. I've also used the oil on her eczema for a month now, and it has worked wonders, almost totally cleared it up. I continue to give her the oil and capsule form at least 4-5 times/week. It's been 6 weeks now, and no attacks, no need for any meds ! You all should try this for your kids.

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  46. My sons asthma gone in 12 days eating a raw fruitarian/vegan diet. I would never allow anyone in my family to eat or drink from from another species lol. wow. SHEEPLE SHEEPLE SHEEPLE , USA USA USA, I NEED MORE SHOTS I NEED MORE SHOT, DANCING WITH THE STARS DANCING WITH STARS
    milk is liquid death, liquid cholesterol, liquid hear disease,liquid constipation, and liquid contamination…THOU SHALL NOT KILL AND FIRST DO NOT HARM

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  47. I loved reading this, as I went through the same thing with doctors for both of my kids. The straw that broke the camels back, was when my daughter had a severe outbreak of eczema, and then a secondary infection (because of scratching) which she hid from me so she wouldnt get reprimanded for scratching. I found it on the back of her legs and it had turned black! I panicked, went to kaiser, the docs looked at it, left, and came back in with HAZMAT suits on. They thought it was the skin eating disease. After a very long day and a ton of painful antibiotics ( she was 5) and finding out it was just a secondary infection, still no answers on why my daughter had eczema and asthma so bad. I decided to not do this anymore and find out myself. So there I was looking for a solution, very first thing was dairy so I Took that out of her diet, and MAGIC. No eczema, no asthma ever again. Literally! She is 20 and has not ever had one attack or even a slight bit of itchiness, Im glad you shared, most people don’t know that their kids might have an immune deficiency or lack of enzymes that prevents them from eating certain foods. Its all about money for the pharmaceutical companies and shameful that some docs are just drug dealers.

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    • While I’m glad – very glad – that removing dairy worked out so amazingly well for your daughter (maybe she had a dairy intolerance or even allergy manifesting as asthma and eczema?) I have to chime in and say that where money is important for pharmaceutical companies, as it is for all companies, it is not ‘all about’ money and I am very glad that my docs are ‘drug dealers’! Seretide 125/25 and Montelukast 10mg have literally changed my life. I have gone from on/off/on/off ice hockey, and struggling after short periods and definitely being unable to run, to being able to play 5 minute shifts on the ice, not having missed a session in months, and even chasing a friend up three flights of stairs the other day didn’t even leave me with a tight chest. This is all corroborated by my peak flow results (from 150 mornings and 190 evenings to 320 mornings and 330-340 evenings) and my spirometry results. I have tried stepping down or stopping a medication as well as all the possible lifestyle mods but it is dangerous for me to do that. Pharmaceutical companies produce meds for the good of other people. If GSK hadn’t produced Seretide I might well be dead or seriously ill. If Merck hadn’t produced Singulair and other companies followed suite with generics (Montelukast) then I would still have difficulties with ice hockey and the ice rink.

      Just a thought. But very glad for you and your daughter 🙂

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  48. My 3 out of 4 of my kids are mild to moderately asthmatic. My son is currently on singulair, two neb treatments of pulmicort (daily and indefinitely), and albuterol via neb. as needed (which is chronic and multiple times a week). We are about to embark down the road of the Childrens Hospital and see a pulminologist bc ‘something just ain’t right’ here. No 4 year old should be on meds like this ALL the time just to breathe AND even after albuterol he is still wheezing. There’s never NOT a wheeze to be honest (during fall and winter). So I’m totally investigating our diet now and the milk thing you mentioned has me totally interested. THough my son showed no allergy to milk a few years back, he threw up every time he drank/ate it. I’ve since reintroduced it to him and since there were no problems of vomiting so we continue to serve it to him. Now, I’m thinking otherwise but there are no raw milk vendors around here. Would you recommend another alternative? I’m not a fan of soy as it contains estrogens. Perhaps almond milk? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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    • Lori, my son loves plain almond milk! You can even venture to make it on your own, He tried coconut and didnt like the taste.

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    • Try blackseed (cumin) oil for your children’s asthma. Apply it morn/eve on their eczema. It has personally worked miraclse for my 8 year old asthma/eczema. Natural, organic, no side effects – I love it !
      I’m also giving her coconut milk + tbspn coconut oil(extra virgin) + tumeric(dash) + honey (warm).
      Gerry

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  49. This is so amazing. I love reading your blogs. My husband and I just started down this road of traditional eating. We are thinking of getting two Nigerian dwarfs. Two questions for you if you have time to answer.1. Do you have a favorite book on raising goats? 2. I have read that all wheat today is so modified and has so much more gluten that it is bad for you.(that actually included corn and soy too) How do you feel about that and the GMO foods today?

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  51. Thanks for a great article.I have been inspired to make a change in our life because I want my daughter to heal. However, I have no idea where to buy a goat and a bull for meat and how to feed it. Do I plant grass for them to eat or ca they just graze on whatever grows pn our land .Also, where do I buy chickens that lay eggs that are organic and haven’t been bread or manipulated in a lab? And are chickens for meat different than the ones for eggs (meaning different breeds)? Thank you very much for inspiring us.

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  52. Your page has turned from actual people replying to spam ads about loans and random crap,is there a way to clean up the people leaving spam on your page,though i find it informative and i to have noticed a huge massive difference in eating foods that are not processed and went from eating red meats to only fish and chicken,im slowly making it there with the diet thing but noticed a huge change as well with sugar cravings,if i add more fruits and veggies i dont get sweet cravings nearly as much,i dont drink pop either.I also am lactose intolerent and so was my lil brother and i think my son will be as well.Never tried goats milk,but drank hay milk,soy milk,coconut milk,almond milk and the latter.Those i also was fine with,just cant handle the store milks very well but dont know where to get raw cows milk or goats milk.

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  53. My three year old has asthma. He was born into a family that eats gluten free (all sprouted/soaked gf grains) grass-fed organic meat, free-range eggs, 98% organic diet. He’s never had fast food, and rarely has white (organic) sugar. He gets raw, organic dairy and cheese. He was breastfed until nearly 2. Unfortunately, he still has asthma. He nearly died before his first birthday because of uncontrolled asthma/pneumonia. He is on an experimental protocol where he only gets the steroid nebulizer when he’s actually sick, and that has worked well, and he hadn’t needed it for a year before his most recent attack. Perhaps he does have an issue with dairy though, even though it’s raw and completely grass-fed. The farmer from whom we get our meat, eggs, cheese, and milk also milks goats, so maybe I should try him on the goat’s milk. Thanks for the thought!

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    • Whether milk is raw or pasteurised (just a point on pasteurised milk; there are no health risks and in fact it is much riskier to your health to drink unpasteurised milk) it doesn’t change the proteins such as casein which are responsible for allergic reactions. So it might be an allergy rather than just an intolerance.

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    • Yes, it is the dairy for SURE! Whenever I drink straight milk (even RAW MILK) I end up with bad sulfur burps (they smell like rotten eggs). Some people just cannot handle dairy in any form!

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  54. We are going through the same thing with my 6 year old son. It started last year with cold season (same exact scenario you described) and continued even worse through allergy season. We made the switch to raw cow’s milk during that time and have been making more and more progress with a real food diet. BUT we all just got our first cold of the season. For most of us it was barely a blip, but for Sam all this asthma-stuff is going on 2 weeks now. So …my question I’m HOPING you can help me with is what do I do for right now while we’re working on healing his body through dietary changes? Were there any short-term things you had luck with? Should I push to get a nebulizer sent home with us? Any natural home remedies give a little relief? Morning is his worst time, so getting him well enough to make it to school on time is a challenge. The more he coughs the worse it gets!

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  55. I have lactose intolerance, asthma and severe environmental allergies, plus a tree nut allergy. I will have to look for raw milk the next time I go to the store. Thanks!

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  56. Our dairy feeds organic raw milk to more than 80,000 people every week from 625 stores in CA. The stories are never ending about how raw milk heals the immune system and the gut. If you have: allergies, asthma, excema, IBS, Crohns, frequent colds, ear infections, lactose intolerance, milk allergy….raw milk is your new best friend. Scientists in Europe think that they may have found out why raw milk is so good for allergies. It may be the raw whey protein that stabilizes the MAST cells and keeps histamines from being released. Of course, we do know for sure because raw milk is an extremely complex food and many different systems are working together to make it all work. Nearly All of these systems are inactivated by heat. The design of raw milk as natures first food for all mammals is a true wake up call to all of us. It contains the seeds of life that are critical to the optimal survival of a baby when it is weakest and building its very fragile immature immune system and digestive tract.

    It is a human crime that the massive raw milk studies performed in EU are denied by the FDA. Google: PARSIFAL, Gabriela, Alex, Amish, Pasture studies. Just add the words ” raw milk studies” after these huge research project names. You will be blown away. Your gut will be eternally grateful!!!!

    All the best,

    Mark Mcafee CEO OPDC Fresno Ca

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  57. I love this. My daughter was 5 when they diagnosed her with asthma. We would go into the drs. Offic re so much they new us by name. They kept upping her meds everytime we went in the office. At one point she was on a medication not recommended for under 13 remember she is 5. I still felt like nothing was working so I stopped all together giving any steroids or extra medication all she used was her inhaler. I took her back to the dr and told her I was done. I am finding another way she then told me I was stupid for not following drs orders. That is no lie. Then she said who cares olif one of the medications side effects is stunted growth and she is a girl so she doesn’t need to be tall. Seriously, lets say I don’t go to that dr. Anymore. I did research of my own. I cut back on gluten it is an inflammatory and milk and also proccessed foods. Holy cow has it made a huge difference in her life. She only occasionally needs her inhaler just when the pollen count gets high because she is allergy induced asthma, but that has become so rare that I see us headed in the right direction. It goes to show we really need to watch what we out in our bodies. Thank you for sharing your story

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  58. A hobby farm sounds like a lot of fun. I had family members who lived on a farm and I had the opportunity several years ago to raise my own pig, chickens, turkeys, and goats. The eggs were great and the pork and turkey was the best that I had ever tasted. I know longer have any of these animals and they no longer have the farm but I do still eat antibiotic and hormone free meats and eggs. I try to stay away from processed foods as much as possible and eat real foods. I also have an intolerance to dairy and I now drink either almond or coconut milks. I have also found out that the products that we buy for our homes (cleaning products, laundry detergents, soaps, shampoos, etc.) have toxins that are affecting our health and the health of our children including asthma, allergies, ADD, etc. I have been fortunate enough to be introduced to a company who specialize in natural, eco friendly products for our homes. By removing the toxins from our homes we will also be removing these ailments that are affecting our children. Please take a look at the below website and specifically look at the section marked as “Children’s Health” “Chemicals and Children”
    https://www.ahealthcafe.com/try-it-now

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  59. Thanks for this. I’ve been slowly building my hobby farm and never actually made some momentous decision to raise my own food. It just sort of happened. Chickens? Oh I like chickens, we had them as kids. Fresh eggs are yummy. Hmmm, I remember rabbit meat being pretty tasty. I should get some rabbits. Oh look, a lady has some pygmy goats only an hour away. Pygmy’s would be way easier to handle than our big Boer goats (both boys)….so here I am learning about goat milk. I am all about growing my own food, now. I have one son with lots of allergies and asthma. He also happens to be a dairy addict. He drinks a LOT of milk, and his snacks of choice always include cheese and yogurt. I’m pretty sure he consumes more dairy than the rest of us all put together. I hope I can get him to try some goat milk and maybe we can get his asthma under control instead of the endless shots and meds that sometimes mess with his emotions and mood.

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  60. Oh my gosh, when I got to the end, your story hit home to the letter. I went four years on traditional medications for asthma and GERD, with very similar medical experiences – “shrug of shoulders” diagnosis and “it could be….”….our medicine cabinet was stocked with every type of cough medicine, traditional and homeopathic, on the market….I had frequently heard that his constipation/unhealthy gut was the source of his asthma from the health food store people but dismissed it. I started down my own gut healing journey and when his doc refused to refill his scripts unless I put him through a workup that included pulmonary function tests, endoscopy and colonoscopy. He was 5, and I refused to put him “under” for this. I started seeing a chiropractor and at the same time said “no more dairy”….I don’t think I was truly committed to it, I think it happened by accident….he was home for five days, where we had no milk except the raw goat….and the symptoms went away….went back to daycare and symptoms reoccurred immediately…..went back and forth a few times before I realized it and said “no more dairy at all”….and dropped him out of daycare when they wouldn’t comply (they are state funded and without a doc note, would not provide him with anything but cow milk and even with note, could not provide goat milk and would not allow us to bring our own). Symptoms gone and off ALL meds. Yes, he still wheezes, but it is a true wheeze and it’s rare…no cough and even after six weeks of new school and exposure to new germs, no illness….I know there is more to clean up in his diet, but currently we live with my parents and it’s hard to convert him when grandparents undermine my efforts. We will get there…..funny, not one doctor in four years suggested I change his diet…they all just prescribed another pill “to try”.

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  61. Hi there. My friend Melissa directed me to this page. My 2.5 year old daughter has an asthmatic response every time she gets the sniffles. We’re in the middle of dealing with an episode right now and she’s in rough shape. We drink almond and coconut milks and eat organic cultured butter, raw organic cheeses, and organic fruits and veggies with some fast/processed foods thrown in the mix so we’re basically at your middle stage. Do you think moving to the raw milk would be more beneficial? Any tips to help make the full changeover? Farming in any form is not in the cards as we live in an apartment where we can’t do anything except something inside. That should hopefully be changing in the future, but for now, I have extremely limited options and no more farmers market in a few weeks

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    • Cary, could you “make friends” with the farmer’s at the market, and buy direct (the dairy anyway) and just buy organic at the store as much as possible? there are many online sources for organic foods, including grass fed meats (US Wellness Meats) too. Are the almond and coconut milks hand made or store bought (which contain a bunch of chemicals)? Bone broth, fermented foods and probiotics may help big time. Also find a good chiropractor – that made ALL the difference with my sons frequent “sniffles” and “dribbles”. Doc always can tell when he is fighting something without me even telling him, just by touch. He can start “something” and after one adjustment, be symptom free the next day.

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  62. Out son too seemed to benefit from a whole food diet, until he (fully vaccinated) contracted pertussis with his partially and non vaccinated siblings. He has dtruggled ever since. It’s been months.

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  63. Thanks for sharing. My daughter and I are allergic to the lroteina in milk so allerfic that we can’t drink soy aince the proteins are ao close alike. My doctor said that a lot of people have asthma from eating cheddar. I started going to a chiropractor that does some natural medicine and he said rhat most people allergic to milk could drink cows milk if they got it freah and unpastuerized, its the pastuerization that changes the molecular compos ition and that’s why we can’t sigest the protein. I’ve been too scared to try it, we drink almond milk but after your article I think we will. Our asthma is allergy induced.

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  64. Hello,

    Thank you for your post! We have recently switched our almost 2 year old to raw goat’s milk after doing some asthma research. What would you say is the second most important switch to make if we are trying to ease into the whole food world? We try to avoid processed food as much as possible, but I’m curious as to what you found to be second most significant.

    Also, did you just stop with the daily inhaler and see what happened, or did you wean your child off slowly?

    Thanks!

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    • I would say of course #1 (if you have asthma or allergies) is switching DAIRY first, then after that, I would say #2 would be FATS. That means I would get rid of vegetable or seed oils that have high numbers of polyunsaturated fats, and stick with more stable saturated and monounsaturated fats. So, I’d eat butter, lard, tallow for my animal fats, and then use olive oil and coconut oil as my plant-based fats. After that, it’s pretty much just watching the processed food & focusing on high quality foods.

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  66. This is awesome. Just to tell my story in case there are others who are in the same boat-I had asthma since I was 9. I was on various medications. I grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and would have a lot of trouble in the summer (wheat harvest) and winter. Even after I left home, going back to Kansas would always bring it back. Otherwise it was off and on. Then it seemed to get worse. Fast forward to 2 years ago. I starting reading and changed my diet to be more Weston A. Price. Then my family and I (Husband and 5 kids) went on the Gaps diet for 6 months. With all that, I was off all medications and my asthma had improved by about 90%. Which was great, but every once in awhile, it would sneak in. I still never took meds, but I had to watch it. (Nettles also helped.) Then I started heavily supplementing with magnesium, in various ways (transdermal, orally, etc.). It wasn’t until 4 months after taking a high dose of magnesium daily (and tolerating it well) that I suddenly couldn’t tolerate such a high level and I had no asthma! I had my magnesium RBC checked and I’m at 5.0. I still assume that I have a tendency for asthma but I do believe that I’m not likely to ever have an emergency with it and need drugs. It’s hard to believe that 2 years ago I barely believed I could ever say I was Asthma free!

    About the milk…I’ve never liked milk too much, though I don’t avoid all dairy products (milk kefir for one.) (Homemade ice cream for 2) It’s an interesting connection. I’ve also heard that lactose intolerant people are targets for mosquitoes and I definitely am a mosquitoes delight. I’d like to look into this more.

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    • Magnesium has been a great help to myself and my son as well. We take “Natural Calm” at night and it helps regulate our bowel movements and helps him fall asleep easier too.

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  67. I feel like I could have written this post! Well, except for the goat’s milk part. Tried it. Didn’t like it. But thanks for the tip on the variety of goat…I may have to investigate that.

    After 8 years on allergy and daily asthma meds for me, and about 2 years for my daughter, I was so done with the “huh, seems OK to me” routine at the doc when the kid was sick and on antibiotics every 3 months. Being sick every 3 months is NOT. NORMAL! So, we got rid of processed foods. Then we switched to raw organic milk. 3 days later, her perpetual asthma cough was gone! THREE DAYS! I was shocked, but not necessarily convinced. We ran out a few days later and since it is a 45 min drive to t he farm, we instead went 5 min to the grocery store. Within 3 days or less, the cough was back. Hmmmm. So, we tried again. When the cough was gone again after doing raw milk, I was sold.

    We still do some pasteurized dairy in the form of yogurt (although minimal because she gets phlemmy and I haven’t figured out making raw milk yogurt yet). Our cow’s milk cheese is also raw. It took me a long time to get used to the flavor of pastured milk, but this summer it seems to have settled in. And we will never look back. We are at 20 months with probably not a sip of pasteurized or conventional milk, and 20 months with no asthma meds, even during the one illness that we got hit with after a week vacation on a ship with no access to our traditional foods! I don’t know how critics can argue with evidence like that!!

    Can’t wait to explore your blog more! Love what I have read so far!!

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  68. At 40 I was diagnosed with asthma because physical exertion brought on the same set of symptoms your son had. I was an avid gardener who spent weekends outdoors doing hard physical labor and to find myself coughing, wheezing and having trachial spasms just because I tried to dig a small hole frustrated me immensely. I spent the next 5 years on every asthma med that existed and it MADE ME WORSE. My lungs stayed wet and I coughed up masses of phlegm. Finally, after I got sick of it I just got off the meds cold turkey. Know you’re not supposed to but I did. I’m 54 now and still have the occasional bout of “asthma” but I’m going to try your idea of diet changes and see what happens. I’d really love to be able to exercise again, especially my gardening.

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  69. I was diagnosed with asthma when I was in second grade. It was never terribly bad until I moved to Kansa in my early 20s. I discovered a wonderful place called Brum’s Ice Cream and Dairy. The milk was wonderful and I consumed more mike then I ever had. I few years later moved back to California and stopped drinking milk. My diet did not change in any other way other then milk. I still each cheese, Ice cream and all other dairy produces I just do not drink milk. Like above I was using inhaler every few hours nebulizer and miserable allergies. My asthma is completely gone and I have very mild allergies from time to time now. I had 4 of my brothers who also have asthma and several others remove milk from there diets with the same results. I know believe milk is the cause of most if not all asthma.

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  70. DaNelle, I love your blogs and your website! I just recently began following you, but it’s like I have a thought, and you post something about it. I just wanted to say, of my 9 children 3 had chronic asthma, so bad with 2 of them that they required daily nebulizer treatments. When I was faced with a switch to formula for the older of the 3 (my 5th), a dear wise friend turned me to Meyenberg goat milk powder. I know it isn’t the same as fresh raw goat milk, but I knew I didn’t want to feed my babies some nasty chemical ridden formula and that cow milk was a known antagonist for wheezing and fluid build up and that goat milk was higher in fat, more like human milk and thus more easily digested. So I have used it for every baby since and they have flourished…and at about 18 months they no longer needed any asthma meds! I have been on a health journey myself since just before our 4th child when I was diagnosed with Systemic Lupus. I am amazed how much I am still learning, how much more information is out there now. Thank you for all of your sharing! We are expecting chickens in a couple weeks and you have made me confident in deciding to raise our own ND goats. I am hopeful to start raising bees next summer. We’re in Michigan, so our window of opportunity is small for beginning new outdoor 🙁 Thanks so much for your willingness to put all you learn out there for all of us!

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  72. The best way to prevent asthma is to become a vegetarian, avoid all milk and yogurt products altogether. It is okay to drink goat’s milk or raw cow’s milk.
    Secondly, always buy fresh food which is full of prana (vital energy), stop storing food in the frig more than one night, practice some yoga and meditaation. Also, practice kapalabhati pranayama and other pranayamas, and you will find a remarkable change in your energy and you are bound to get rid of asthma.
    Never use allopathic medicines. Look into the benefits of ayurveda and take an oil bath if not every day, every other day. For more information, google for yoga for asthma, also ayurveda for asthma, etc. I am a certified yoga instructor, 80 years of age and am healthy without any disease.

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  73. Great post. My son developed juvenile asthma before the age of 1. That was back in late 1970’s BEFORE the prevelance of Big Pharma and toxic meds, antibiotics run amok and Monsanto ruining the food chain totally BUT the beginning of GMO’s, antibiotic and growth hormone additives in the food chain (cows for milking, meat and poultry too). Doctors are so very fast to throw meds and nebulizers at kids. In our case I “cleaned” up the house environment, stopped spraying cleaners or Lysol in the air, started giving my son home made veggies, fruits (he wasn’t even on whole foods yet when he was diagnosed) and would not let anyone who smoked into the house. Those were the days of “fire retardent” kids clothes and THAT chemical was in almost every article of clothes but I went out of my way to find untreated cotton, hemp and the like Don’t forget that the SKIN is the LARGEST ORGAN of our Body and EVERYTHING that touches it goes transdermally right through the skin into our bloodstream.

    A smart friend, a few years later told me to have my son start playing a REED instrument, and as he started playing the Clarinet his lungs got stronger and stronger. We went from visiting the Respiratory Therapist in the Emergency room every 2 weeks down to never in the course of 1 year on the Clarinet! Playing a reed instrument is gentle on the lungs but builds them up, naturally.

    I love your dietary changes. Please note that there are many ENVIRONMENTAL chemicals that we never think about in our clothes, cleaning products etc. that need to be addressed too.

    We now are Asthma free and my own Respiratory Bronchitis is long gone. I am insuring that my body stays strong with the ability to HELP ITSELF by doing all the above and using Laminine, which wakes up the body’s own Stem Cells and then THEY Repair, Rejuvenate and Rebuild whatever needs fixin’. It also supplies the body with 22 amino acids that are necessary for wellness and continued good health and way back when my son was an infant, this would have been just the thing to get us over those infant years. It is a blessing to me NOW, especially as a NON GMO, Organic, Pescatarian (only fish from the Sea, not Farm raised) eater. You should do your own research for what is right for YOUR ASTHMA family member. This may help you. https://BackToAhealthyFuture.com It sure helps us!

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  74. Many thanks for this post. My family and I are seriously considering purchasing raw milk (most likely cow’s, still looking at local resources for goat’s). My son has asthma and it took our dr 2 years to get me to admit it. Now I am so beyond over this illness and have heard nothing but great things about raw milk reversing its affects. Our stories are similar and I again am grateful for your sharing!

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  75. Completely agree with every statement. My daughter was born a micro-preemie, which immediately put her in a high risk for any respiratory issue becoming big and nasty. She was taking live vaccines to prevent RSV, and then she did end up contracting it anyway. She had nasty complication from RSV – she was literally inhaling her food while swallowing, and that caused numerous aspiration pneumonias. Then she was put on a feeding tube to help her throat heal. She was eating all organic food from the day 1, so we felt it was just something she was going to have all her life.
    When she got off the tube, she recovered fully, but her asthmatic wheezing episodes were regular and predictable. Every weather change, environment change, going to a different classroom (getting introduced to new bugs) would set her off, and every little set of sniffles would throw her into a prolonged asthmatic reaction that will last for weeks. Steroids and preventative meds were a must. She was seeing a pulmonologist regularly.
    I did some reading and decided to switch her to raw cow’s milk from a local farm. Within 3 months she stopped having wheezing episodes. That was over 3 years ago. Since then, she switched schools, moved to another city, another climate. Nothing! She recovers from her colds remarkably quick (we never medicate her). She never has allergies, digestive issues, not once an ear infection. She’s the tallest in her class. She may catch a cold now and then – typically when the weather changes dramatically, like 30 degrees difference overnight in either direction – but her reaction is minimal, and recovery is swift. I can’t say good enough things about raw milk. Since we moved to another state, we had to reassess our choices for local milk. We switched to goat milk. We drink it raw only, never heated, and I make kefir from it and also farmer cheese.
    My coworker has a son with severe lactose intolerance (here is the PC term that’s coined by who know whom), and chronic asthma. He heard about my raw milk adventures, and finally decided to take a plunge. Since he started – not one asthma attack, and the kid guzzles the milk like no tomorrow – no more “lactose intolerance”. BTW, people who are said to be lactose intolerant in 99% cases are intolerant to pasteurized and homogenized milk. They never have reaction to raw milk.
    Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Science behind this is surely relevant and interesting, but experiential proof is so much more important!

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    • Well in my case, any form of Cow’s milk (even RAW) causes me to have sulfur burps (rotten egg smelling and tasting). I stay completely away from Cow’s milk now. Goat’s milk is fine, but I stay away from that too. Coconut Milk and Almond Milk are much better and they both have 50% more calcium than cow milk.

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  77. Hmmm, if only I could get my husband on board with this. He has had asthma his whole life and pretty bad too. Uses his inhalers on a normal day at least twice. When he gets a cold, it’s only a short time before we head to the ER. Maybe I will email him this in hopes he will read it. 🙂

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  96. I was in the hospital for 10 days when I was 4 years old because of asthma. For me it seemed to get worse when I started school (probably because the only options for something to drink are milk or the water fountain). I have never really liked milk, the taste is not appealing, so I would opt for chocolate milk when given the opportunity. Anytime I would run I would have an attack and I always got asthmatic broncitis in the winter.In the summer my pollen allergies used to set it off as well. I had this problem until they came out with zyrtec. I was on that until I was 19. I was also on accolate. When I was 19 I was in college, I stopped drinking milk and became more active. I also went through a deworming regimine and have not has a problem with asthma sice. Oh and I stopped taking all my meds. I think you are so right about the milk and asthma connection as well as diet. I am so happy not to be plagued with asthma anymore. I never knew what it was like to live until my asthma was gone!

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    • Do you no longer have the pollen allergic reaction that sets off the asthma? I am having hay-fever Autumn allergies that cause exercise induced asthma. I can not lift weights or exercise from August to around November during Hayfever season. I can’t catch my breath and then I get jittery and feel like I’m about to die because of it.

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  97. Ok, thanks so much for this post, I was linked in via the Elliots. I have been trying to help my daughter with this type of diet for 5 or 6 yrs now and she STILL has asthma. though not as bad, She also is hypothyroid and adrenally fatigued. Part of what i’m dealing with is she is stubborn and is not consistent with her meds. She is also very addicted to sugar. She is adopted as is her little biological sister and they came that way. I have to hide any sweets that we do make in my room or they will eat them all in one day and no one else gets any. I think it’s a genetic thing. But we do have a cow and even before that we were on raw milk for years. She gets a tude if I try to push things but I am tired of her asthma and so is she! She is 15 going on 25. She is homeschooled but like you when they are out of the house I do let them make their own decisions. She always choose crap! Not much I can do for her there. Do you think she might do better on goats milk? Thanks, Sue in CT.

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    • She may do better on goat’s milk because it is a little bit easier to digest. I know that I see a difference in my son between raw cow’s milk & raw goat’s milk. I think the reason for this is HIS body’s sensitivity to it, like most asthmatic kids. Most people do fine on cow’s milk. But when your dealing with maybe a sensitivity or inflammatory response, it’s wouldn’t hurt to try goat’s milk. Nigerian goat’s milk that is 😉

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    • It doesn’t hurt to try stuff but always bear in mind that not everyone with asthma can come off their meds. It’s also dead important that she takes her meds while she is on them. Emphasise to her that she could die if she doesn’t, and maybe take away privileges until she starts using them properly! I know this post is a bit old but I’m guessing she is probably about 17 now and if she’s not there yet, she really needs to be, and needs to understand that you’re not going to let her go to uni or stay in halls/dorms/away from home if she isn’t using her meds right. It might sound harsh but it’s really important and this is a pretty good method!

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    • Yes she’ll do better on goat’s milk. I only have a reaction to cow’s milk (even RAW). Any form of cow’s milk will cause me to have sulfur burps (burps that smell and taste like rotten eggs). Get her away from all cow dairy products!

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  98. I love this story. I healed my daughter as well. When she was 3 years old, she was severely asthmatic, on 5 prescription meds, nebulizer every 4-6 hours every day, had an antibiotic resistant superbug called Klebsiella Pneumonia for 9 months, failure to thrive, and IBS. We lived in crises mode for a year. We never slept. She missed 3 months of school. The more meds she was on, the sicker she became. I took a leap of faith and turned to holistic medicine and nutritional healing. It changed out lives so dramatically that I was once a professional mechanical engineer and I am now a Holistic Health Coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She never takes prescription drugs now and she is active and thriving. Even better then that, as difficult as it was, our whole family healed in different ways through nutrition. “let food be thy medicine”. We can’t keep living like this! With love gratitude and aloha, Jenny Mons http://www.beachesnutritionalwellness.com

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  99. I must respectfully disagree with your entire case for milk and I hope I will have given you something to think about here. I also have moral reasons for being vegan and I think it is equally important to ask what is best for the animals because they also have rights and free will, they just lack vocal chords to tell you this. It is not a personal choice to eat meat, it is just murder. Animals do not choose to become your food or to give up the milk they made for their babies, this violates their free will. Many people don’t even consider that animals have free will and rights, but they definitely do. More and more people are beginning to see this, the sacredness and unity of all of life, and are choosing to eat compassionately.

    As far as nutritional benefits of raw milk, you can get plenty of the nutrients and enzymes in plants that you could get from raw milk. In fact, plants exceed raw milk in Vitamin A by a large margin. Vitamin A is in raw milk as 6% of your percent daily value in one cup. In comparison to plant based sources of Vitamin A: a medium sized red pepper has 75%!, average tomato 20%, mango 32%, half a cup of green peas 34%, fortified oatmeal 14%, one cup of 7 grain plant milk 15% and 30% Vitamin D. If you need more Vitamin D, enjoy some sunshine.

    Enzymes in raw milk:
    1) Amylase – the most commonly found enzyme in plants, particularly abundant in sweet potato, corn and starchy grains like oats, wheat and barley
    2) Catalase – also found in potatoes, carrots, wheat sprouts, lentils, sunflower seeds
    3) Lactase – not needed by humans
    4) Lactoperoxidase – identical to peroxidase found in saliva and gastric juices
    5) Lipase – nuts and seeds
    6) Phosphatase – citrus fruits, berries, broccoli, cabbage

    It is evident you do NOT need milk to survive, Asian cultures do not consume any dairy and they get along just fine!

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    • I believe we must agree to disagree 🙂

      Vitamins A,D,E,& K are all fat-soluble only available in animal sources. Plants only contain proto-vitamin A, and must first be converted to vitamin A by the body to be available for use. Even healthy adults can’t do this efficiently, and the young and old may not be able to do this at all.

      The Japanese, who have the longest life span of any nation in the world, are not vegan or vegetarian. Although they eat few dairy fats (they do consume some dairy), they eat a significant amount of fat soluble vitamins from eggs, pork, chicken, beef, seafood, and organ meats. They also eat shellfish & fish broth on a daily basis.

      A study of over 40,000 Japanese subjects found that over a sixteen-year-period, “those who ate the most eggs, dairy products and fish had a 28% lower risk of stroke than those who ate the least” Ibid., p.24

      Coming back from vegetarianism myself, I know that my current traditional diet makes me feel AMAZING! I am no longer hungry, tired & weak. Instead I feel nourished and full of energy!! Since switching back to animal products(raw & grass fed), my cholesterol has gone down, I have lost an additional 10 lbs, and my hormones have stabilized. I’m grateful for all the foods God has placed on earth including the animals that I am able to care for and receive food from.

      P.S. I actually own a special breed of goats that can talk. I asked them if they were okay with giving me milk and they were cool with it.

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    • HHAHAHAHA! I love it! We have a cow and I think she’s ok with us giving her plenty of hay and silage all winter when there isn’t much to eat in the country. We also give her water 3 times a day which she would otherwise have to forage for as it is frozen all winter. We also give her shelter if she wants it or she can go outside whenever she likes. We see to her health as well and all her other needs. We are grateful to her for sharing her wonderful milk and we love her and she loves us. She bellows when she hears my husband get home because she loves him and loves milking time. he brushes her and talks kindly to her and pets her.
      She just stands there and enjoys the grains and love. It’s give-give relationship.

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    • Hahaha, sixgunsue, I’m glad you liked that comment! Like you said, it really is true! Our animals love us! If we’d let them come in the house they’d gladly take us up on the offer. My respect for animals has increased since caring for. And bonus, we get delicious milk!

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  101. Hi Kimberly, thanks for commenting! I actually believe that milk IS in fact good for us. Not for the calcium, but for all the vitamins, nutrients & enzymes including the fat soluble A & D. The lie we have been told is that raw milk will make us sick. Humans have been drinking raw grassfed milk from goats, sheep & cows for thousands of years and I believe the allergies and problems with it today stem from the poorly fed animals and the processing done to our milk. (pasteurization, homogenization, reducing fat)

    I also agree that God has placed a plentiful amount of plant based foods for us to enjoy! There is so much awesome variety on the earth today!

    I believe the problem isn’t meat & dairy at all. What is always overlooked is that those cancer patients who cut our meat & dairy also cut out PROCESSED foods. I believe that processed foods are the true cause of cancer today. Eating all kinds of foods (meat, dairy, fruits & vegetables, grains) in their most natural form I believe is the key to true health!

    On top of everything, I believe that we all have the inspiration to eat the way we choose! I support anybody on a healthy journey and I hope you find great health & healing!

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  102. I’m so happy that your son is better! I actually found this blog because my cat has asthma and I am convinced it is from something I am feeding her so I will be changing her food to all organic. I recently became vegan and learned that so many of today’s health problems are linked to a diet too high in meat and dairy (cancer, heart disease, diabetes). I also learned there is a huge myth that we should drink milk because we need calcium for our bones, but actually dairy proteins have an acidic effect on the body and the body uses calcium to neutralize the effects of this which leads to a net calcium loss. I had a milk allergy when I was a kid and haven’t drank it since but I was shocked to know milk makes osteoporosis worse or even causes it. Healthier alternatives are any number of plant based milks like rice milk, almond milk, and coconut milk. It is not surprising at least 60% of the adult population is lactose intolerant when you think about how nature designed us as mammals and that we should only drink milk as babies. It is best to get your calcium from leafy greens, almonds, brazil nuts, sesame seeds, etc. because these are all alkaline sources of calcium with a great number of other health benefits. Please spread the word, this is a huge lie we have been told! More info can be found here:

    https://saveourbones.com/osteoporosis-milk-myth/
    https://www.makingpages.org/health/calcium.osteoporosis.html
    https://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/hurtful-food-cows-milk-and-kids-arent-made-for-each-other.html

    I also understand that some people have been cured of cancer by cutting out dairy and meat entirely (vegan) which I think more people should also know about but I also feel going totally organic is the way to go, genetically modified food causes health problems that people are also not being informed about!

    https://www.responsibletechnology.org/doctors-warn
    https://magicstarer.hubpages.com/hub/GMO-Food-Allergies
    https://rense.com/general35/av.htm

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  103. My 7yo was raised on a whole foods/ NT diet and raw milk as well as kefir, and heck, breastfed til he was 3.5. Our diet isn’t flawless, but for the most part is very nutrient dense and fully organic, often local, free of processed foods,etc. He still has asthma, albeit not terribly. When we took food sensitivity tests, he came up as positive to dairy, so we cut dairy out entirely, even the raw and fermented kind. He hasn’t really improved at all, and in fact now needs symbicort during winter months now. I think it’s a bit discouraging to many to think things can be totally reversed via nutrition. We have what we have, genetics wise. We can work with it. I don’t feel we can make all conditions disappear. My son’s daily life has never been impacted by his asthma though, and he mostly just needs his albuterol and flovent with colds. I do feel that it could have been worse, perhaps far worse, if he weren’t fed a nutrition diet.

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    • Have you looked into Functional Medicine and getting some testing done? My aunt, who is a chiropractor, has had a lot of success with this. Also, whenever anyone has any issues, the first thing she does is take them completely off gluten. It is worth being super strict, though it’s super hard to make the transition. https://www.functionalmedicine.org/about/whatisfm/ best of luck to you.

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      • Actually, chiropractors are not licensed or qualified to make decisions about people’s diets. There is no value to being ‘gluten free’ unless you actually have an allergy or sensitivity such as Coeliac Disease, which can be tested for by IgE and IgA blood tests respectively (although people with gluten allergies typically have very poor results on skin prick testing due to the skin not being permeable to gluten) or by some biopsies done during an endoscopy. It is important when ‘trialling’ things yourself to bear in mind the placebo response (where your brain thinks something might work or will work and can cause you to feel less pain or experience fewer symptoms, even though the physiological process itself is continuing or even worsening, as is so often the case with alternative medicine or treatments, including dietary changes, and asthma).

        In short, ‘Anonymous’ is right: everyone is different and diet is not the be-all and end-all of disease. It really isn’t. In fact, in many many peer-reviewed studies (which I am willing to cite if you like) it has been shown that diet modifications such as non-GMO, gluten-free, raw milk, all organic etc. are actually mainly ineffective in people who do not have allergies or sensitivities to these. (As a side note, ‘sensitivities’ or ‘allergies’ to GMOs are not to the GMO component but actually to the plant itself.)

  104. Great story! We are on the same road. My 7 year old hasnt used his inhaler or nebulizer in over a year. I credit our whole food diet and also chemical free(almost) home. I wish I could get raw milk here in Md but it is illegal:(

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  105. This is SO fantastic! What a gift of good health for your son! It sounds a whole lot like my story (asthma, milk, etc.), but he’s about 20 years younger than I was when I discovered the problem. Just curious – It sounds like you soak whole grains now. Does he ever have trouble with soaked/sprouted wheat? My asthma definitely improved when we switched to raw milk, but it still flares up when I’ve had too much wheat (even soaked). Have you noticed anything like that in your family?
    Again, I think he will look back as an adult and be SO thankful for the changes you helped him make in his diet at a young age that are sparing him from a lifetime of asthma. Go super-mom you! 🙂

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    • As long as we soak or sprout I don’t notice anything, but once we start eating white flour and grains not prepared properly I hear him coughing more.

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    • So much appreciate reading all of this. I have a story but will skip it because it is so similar to all these I am reading. What I would like to add is about wheat. I would highly recommend giving it up…I have and my rewards have been great. Read the book by William Davis, MD, titled “Wheat Belly”. My results have been that I have reversed diabetes, type II, asthma, and eczema. Our food today is literally killing us. If you don’t know about GMOs, please educate yourselves. My husband and I raise our own food organically and for the biggest part that is what we eat. Anything I buy at the grocery is organic and whole. For milk, I make almond milk. I refuse to eat any of these additives these days. Turmeric is a must in my home as is ginger and garlic. It is such a blessing to read all these comments and the article itself to know that I am not alone.

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      • Yes; if you don’t know about GMOs /and all the fantastic work they are doing in countries without our privileges/ then please educate yourself /because your selfishness is not working and the health risks are the same as with any other food you will consume in your life/.

        Just putting in some corrections there.

  106. Great story! We healed my son’s eczema years ago by taking him off pasteurized cow’s milk, so I’ve seen allergic issues heal with simple changes as well. And good call passing on that flu shot! We’ve done a ton of research on it and have discovered that there are no good, independent scientific studies that demonstrate its effectiveness anyway! According to the Cochrane Collaborative (widely considered the gold standard of independent scientific research and reviews), in average conditions, for every 100 flu vaccinations only 1, at most, set of flu symptoms is avoided! You would have had him pumped full of a lot of toxins for nothing.

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    • But that is 1 person who could have become seriously ill or even died.

      The reason that there aren’t any good studies about the efficacy of the flu jab is because the flu jab changes every year so not only would you not have enough time to conduct a full, scientifically accurate, good, conclusive study, but your results would also be absolutely moot by the following year and would be rendered invalid by science.

      And how can you possibly say that they would have ‘pumped him full of toxins for nothing’? For starters, that is scaremongering: if you want to avoid the levels of ‘toxins’ in flu vax, you should probably stop eating fresh fruit, too, as they contain hundreds of times more formaldehyde, thimerosal (which is not actually mercury by the way) and other chemicals (cyanide in apples, for instance) than the flu jab. Secondly, how could you possibly know that that boy would not have been that 1 in 100? The flu vaccine could have saved his life. And finally, even if he still got one of the strains of flu the shot was intended to offer protection against his shot was a contribution to herd immunity which could, if we actually went about it properly and a lot less selfishly than we currently are, have saved the life of someone like me who needs a two types of inhaler and a tablet daily just for the asthma, and currently in pollen season I am using Serevent 25mcg 2 puffs bid, Flixotide 125mcg 2 puffs bid, Montelukast 10mg 1 tablet at night, Salamol 100mcg 2-4 puffs 2-4 times a day, Benadryl Relief 1 tablet bid, Avamys nasal spray 2 sprays once a day, and steroid tablets + antibiotics as needed…

      It is very selfish to not vaccinate on the principals of ‘oh it won’t protect my kid anyway’, ‘vaccines are full of toxins’ and ‘well there’s no evidence in scientific journals which proves it works’ (the latter point is hypocritical given the amount of things people will start doing or stop doing based simply on anecdotal ‘evidence’ on the internet) because not only is the whole toxins thing bull anyway, but it’s not about your child. It is about everyone. There are flu jabs for everyone these days, including people with needle phobia (nasal), people with anaphylactic egg allergies, people who want to avoid preservatives, and people like myself with anaphylactic allergies to latex. Almost all of the flu vaccines are inactivated and therefore are safe for immunocompromised people. So there is actually no reason at all not to get the flu vaccine. And by not getting it…well, you are doing much, much more harm than good.

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  107. I had asthma for over 40 years. For the last 30+ years I was using two medications daily to control wheezing. I had tried acupuncture, homeopathy, herbs, etc. Nothing made any difference. But when I eliminated gluten the wheezing completely disappeared. When I gave up all grains, my seasonal hay fever and chronic tendinitis also disappeared! The GAPS diet has done wonders for me!

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  108. We have had the same thing x 3 kids happen here…it is so wonderful, and I love not having the nebs, inhalers, Prednizone and countless antibiotics anymore. Going on two years here with my son who had moderate asthma not having so much as a sniffle. Good for you…and keep on going! My 3 year old and I have been on GAPS for almost a year – we had a little more stubborn issues…but the same wonderful healing has been finally taking place… We too are so thankful. 🙂
    Heather

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  109. Thank you for sharing this story! 🙂 I had similar success with my son. In a recent visit to the pediatrician, the idea of our cleaner eating and homeopathy being the catalyst for the “reverse” was dismissed. It was suggested that my son “outgrew it.” Perhaps. But, we’ll stick with the cleaner eating. 🙂 So thankful for what we are learning!

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  110. I feel like I was reading my own story with my daughter!! We too switched to raw (cow’s) milk from a wonderful organic farmer. Within 3 DAYS of starting on it, I noticed her cough (or constant clearing her throat) was GONE! GONE…in 3 days! I didn’t really believe it though and when that gallon of raw milk ran out, I bought store milk. 3 days later she was back to coughing (that is her symptom…not wheezing but coughing). So we switched and haven’t looked back. And today has been 1 year and 8 days since we last used any allergy or asthma meds. For me that is after 8+ years on Zyrtec, albuterol and finally, several years on Singulair. And that was STILL getting a respiratory illness every 2-3 months! For my daughter, that meant 7 years of getting sick every 2-3 months and the last 2-3 on zyrtec and on and off albuterol and they were thinking of starting her on Singulair. It was ridiculous. And I am happy to report we made it through 2012 without a SINGLE respiratory illness. It is nothing short of a miracle!!! Can’t wait to read more of your story!

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  111. I’ve had a similar situation myself. In the summer of 2010 I was selling handmade items at a farmer’s market and was given so much leftover produce that I decided to incorporate them into our diet and started participating in Meatless Mondays. I also noticed that I felt congested every time I had milk, so I switched to almond milk. From there I started taking more steps to a whole food, plant heavy diet. For the past few years I have not had 6 months of chronic bronchitis, no more asthma, we have not gotten the flu only an occasional head cold that lasts a day or two and is very minor, we’ve lost weight, and the icing on the cake came when I gave up gluten three months ago and my daily migraines and fibromyalgia are now almost completely gone. It’s amazing how much more energy I have and I’m on a normal sleep schedule that I was never able to keep before.

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  112. Danelle, my own personal story is similar but with a few differences. I acquired allergies and asthma when I was about 35 years old. I now can trace it back to after receiving a flu shot. Soon after I was suddenly allergic to cats and dogs after having them my whole life. I then started to have asthma attacks often and was tested for IgE allergies which showed no food allergies. I started reading books on nutrition and in “The Makers Diet” read that raw goats milk helped with asthma. I bought two milking Nigerian goats and consumed raw milk for years. My asthma never did get better. Then I met a nutritionist that suggested I be tested for IgG Food Antibodies. I was highly intolerant of the casein in milk, eggs and beef. I eliminated all three from my diet and now five years later I am asthma free and went from taking several medications to taking nothing. After finding out about the dairy intolerance I went back to my doctor and was tested again for IgE dairy and eggs. That test showed nothing. I told him of the IgG test results and he dismissed the results. You see, he is now out a customer and that is why allergy docs don’t support the IgG testing. By eliminating the foods I no longer need him or his medications. I still have my goats, they are pets now. But feel great and don’t get sick like I used to either. Nutrition can cure everything. I am convinced of it.

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  113. Isn’t it amazing how much food has to do with our health? I wish it had not taken me until 30 years old with two special needs kids to learn this important lesson, but there it is! And there are lots of people still trying to keep that info under wraps, but they can’t shut us up! 🙂 Keep preaching it, and so will I. Love your blog!

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  114. Love your story…my daughter was diagnosed with asthma and through diet and chiropractic measures, she is doing great:-) i too had a doctor tell me after not wanting to give my daughter the flu vaccine, “you don’t want her to die.” I kept my sense of humor and eternally wrote her off as a doctor…

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  115. Great story…You should look up Epidemic Answers ..they are doing a documentary on this…healing 7 families who have anything from severe eczema to asthma to autism..check it out write about it and encourage your family, friends and fans donate to see it come to life!
    I did the same with my 5 year old son…I did not vaccinate or give him any meds…I was lucky to have a ped that walked me down this path of healing…many nights of rocking and moving from room to room trying to keep him calm so he could breathe…we are asthma free at age 5

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  116. my daughter is 11 and has asthma…we have changed our diets to wholesome foods no processed, she had a bad winter and used her inhaler more and hasnt work, now she is using claritin which iam not happy about but i dont know what to do for her i hate giving her medications but dont like to see her having trouble breathing. cant find raw milk where i live need help please what else can i do to help her.

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  117. We are not totally where you are diet wise. This past summer we did make a switch to real food, cut out processed. I have totally noticed a difference in my TWO children who were both diagnosed with asthma at a young age. Theirs was never exercise induced more cold and allergy induced. But now, no NEB since last winter. No inhaler for my son and only maybe once for my daughter. What you eat really does makes a difference!!

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      • I am glad I am not the only one. I am an RN who has done the same things as you for my severely asthmatic son. He suffered life threatening attacks requiring epinephrine and prednisone at least once a month for years. We went all organic, gluten free, but by far the biggest change came from a diet completely dairy free other than goat’s milk.

        We also started seeing a physician who embraced natural medicine. So happy to see others like me. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this wonderful article.

  118. The more I read your blog, the more I feel like I need to move next door to you so I can buy your goats’ milk and your chickens’ eggs! And I can be the bread-maker! Haha. I could probably raise my own goats and chickens but it would be a huge change for me. I suppose if I should learn anything from your experiences it’s that I, too, can be a backyard homesteader. I just need the right house first!

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  119. That’s a wonderful story! So great to hear! 🙂

    Maybe we’ll have to switch over to a more traditional diet (we’re eating somewhat traditional now, but could soak/sprout our wheat/spelt and drink raw milk). What do you eat during the day to keep the diet more frugal?

    I would love to have nigerian dwarf goats too! This is one of my goals. 🙂 We have enough room to have one or two in the backyard, but will be selling our house soon.

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  120. Amazing story! Thank you so much for sharing it! Some day, I’d love it if you’d share this with my readers on Fibro, Fit and Fab! It would be such an encouragement! I believe that food plays a LOT bigger picture in our health than people want to admit, and this just cements it even further to me. Let me know if you’d be interested in sharing this with my readers some time, and we’ll see what we can work out. 🙂

    Have a great day!

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