Video: How I Discovered Ann Boroch’s Recovery Program
So as most of you already know, Ann Boroch and I are gearing up to launch the Autoimmune Warrior Bootcamp: 7 weeks to a Diet, Detox & Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery.
In preparation for the course, she and I have been talking a lot on Skype, and we decided it’d be cool to record some of those conversations and make them available to you.
Today, I wanted to share a video of a conversation we had about what it was like for me when I was first diagnosed and I discovered Ann and her program and began implementing it in my life. Hope you enjoy it.
And remember, if you think you might be interested in the bootcamp, please take a moment and comment to let us know what you’d like to see in the course. We want your feedback to help make this thing as awesome as possible!
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I am finding out the same thing, I have had ms for 12 years and in the past at least 5 years with having my babies and breastfeeding and started making connections with books I read and started to exercise and eat right, well I’m still learning how to eat! I am very happy at watching your video and knowing that it is possible. Eating right and exercising is the 2 best things you can do. Eating right helps your body clear itself of all the nasties and exercising works right along with that. Making the blood flow better, getting oxygen into your body that you need. I love the bootcamp idea and I want to do it!
hi robyn! isn’t it amazing that there’s so little education about proper diet that we find ourselves as adults just learning what good nutrition is? and it’s definitely a journey. thanks for writing!
I was diagnosed 10 years ago with MULTIPLE lesions and I have been stable and relapse free since then. How would the diet be most effective?
hi sarah. well the cool thing about this diet is that it’s not just a diet to heal MS, it’s a diet to support excellent health and longevity no matter you’ve got. you’re removing infection and inflammation, detoxifying and eating the foods your cells need to function optimally. but like ann says, it’s best to think of it as a lifestyle choice, not a diet. you’re choosing to lifestyle of health and well-being.
I have been dx for 5 years – with symptoms back another 20years. I have also discovered that proper diet – whole foods, no red meat – makes a WORLD of difference in my symptoms!!! I even recently started running. I have not ran in over 20 years and I am 50 years young. Isn’t that phenomenal??!!! I think people think this a quick fix – it isn’t. It is a lifestyle, takes a long time, and a lot of hard work.. but oh – the road is so worth it!!! I still have symptoms 24/7 but they are managable. All we can do is try and keep MOVING and MOVING toward the positive!!!!! Pam
right on pam! thanks for writing and sharing your story. and yes, you are absolutely right. it’s not a quick fix. but it is an effective one. it is a lifestyle choice that absolutely pays off. for me, the results are almost immediate.
Karen, although i’ve read Ann’s book and am currently a partient of hers, i’m interested in the boot camp. i’m most interested in food sensitivies, i.e. those foods that might be ‘health’ but exacerbate symptoms. i recently ate a healthy quinoa, chichken, and vegetable stir fry, but something immediately made my symptoms worse; was it the quinoa or one of the vegetables? did i eat too much quinoa and small quantities are more tolerable? what is the best approach for isolating a food sensitivity? is a food sensitivity test, such as ELISA, helpful and worth the money? i’d rather save the money and develop an approach for identifying and isolating food sensitivies.
Hi Karen, I am a guy, 47 years old and was diagnosed with MS back in 1996. I have made some changes in my life and I thnk that a lot of those changes are responsible for me having had my last serious relapse in 1998.
I would like to find out more information about two (2) things especially:
1. How to Detox correctly and safely?
2. How can I improve my diet to lessen my MS?
I would greatly appreciate any and all the advise you can give me on this and also if you can tell me more about your bootcamp.
Best personal regards,
Alex
Hi Karen,
I was dx’d with MS in 1994. I did well for several years but, over the last 5 years I slowly declined to a point where I now rely on a walker/scooter to get around. Last year, I had a horrible relapse that knocked me out for 3 months (practically bedridden). I truly believe it was a result of going off of Tysabri after 21 months and subsequently taking a drug holiday. I am fighting my way back, but I have a long way to go. I have been working with an herbalist and a physical therapist for a couple of years. I have also been following the MS Recovery Diet (Ann Sawyer & Judy Bachrach) for 2.5 years (gluten, dairy, egg & yeast free, low sugar, low saturated fat). Finally, I started working with a chiropractic neurologist in Sept., 2010. While I can feel myself slowly getting better, is there anything I can do to speed up the process? Am I doing too much? Thank you for any insights you can provide.
Gluten free De-tox?
hi karen,
I was diagnosed in 2003 but symptomatic for more than a decade before that. I been trying to eat healthy and move things energetically. unfortunately the progression very gradually continued. At that point I was riding horses competitively and running a horse farm with my husband, driving an hour to New Orleans to sing in an interracial gospel choir weekly, and having a very full psychotherapy practice.
After diagnosis and weathering Katrina, the progression accelerated. I am now on disability, divorced, but have a very expansive and spiritual understanding of this sacred Path.
Through my whole recovery I would be very serious about MS treatment, consciously rejecting DMD’s, but only staying on a diet for perhaps a year and then giving up. I was never fortunate enough to feel the connection between diet and lessening the symptoms. Now I am realizing that perhaps I just wasn’t sensitive enough for focused enough on that essential piece.
I’ve been following the wahls diet and NMS for a few months. I have also had this CCSVI intervention. My energy level seems to be increasing. To see positive feedback as a result of my intense commitment is so liberating.
I am looking for more support. Boot camp looks like a fabulous alternative for me at this particular point. Thank you and Ann for doing this. Aliyah
hi aliyah. thanks so much for your post. i think the bootcamp would be excellent for you. i think the bootcamp will be excellent for me too! even though i’ve been working with ann since 2007, the opportunity for this intensive and intimate learning and exposure to her work i know will be tremendous for me, and for anyone who take the course. you are obviously a warrior and that’s the most fundamental and crucial part of getting well.
all my best,
karen
Karen,
I look forward to the bootcamp and I hope you can cover on how to deal with family and friends who do NOT follow a good diet. Sometimes I have a hard time when I see my loved ones eat processed foods. I am constantly sending them Ann’s newsletter and tips from what she gave me but at the same time I do not want to put anybody down on how they eat!
Sometimes I feel like I put myself in a strange spot when we go to a birthday party and all they have are pizza, hot dogs and cake and I don’t eat any of eat so I feel as if I am being rude. My family knows my diet but sometimes when they invite me over the dinner they made is something I cannot have. I don’t expect anybody to cater to me but at the same time I don’t know how to get around that “elephant” in the room so to speak.
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon!
Jess
hi jessica. oh yes, the birthday party experience – been there many times with my five year old girl! i have learned NOT to show up hungry, otherwise it’s so easy to eat something i shouldn’t. anyway, we’ll definitely cover all that stuff in the bootcamp. we’ll have more details soon.
karen
I have read Ann’s book and I love your ebook Karen. I think for me as a guy I need someone to push me on the road to a correct diet. I am ready for this, let me know what I need to do. Thank you.
thanks barney! i totally understand and it really helps to have someone to keep you motivated. we’ll be releasing more info on the course soon. stay tuned!!!
Great little video and I have offen wonder about diet and MS. I was diagnosed with RRMS back in 1996 and have struggled these past couple of years with alot of pain and discomfort in my entire body. I keep thinking it might be something other than MS but to live with this chronic inflammation makes me think it has to do with what I am putting in my body. I would be very interested in your 7 week Diet, Detox and Nutritional makeover. I am sooooooooooooooo tired of feeling sick all the time!!
hi heather. sounds like the AutoImmune Warrior Bootcamp is what you need. i can tell you from my four years of experience on the diet that what i eat has a MAJOR impact on how i feel. we’ll be releasing more info about the course soon. thanks for writing!
karen
HOW LONG DID YOU HAVE MS AND HOW ARE YOU DOING TODAY/ HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU TO HAVE NO SYMPTOMS AND DO YOU STILL GET MRI DONE AND DID YOU EVER HERE ABOUT CCSVI FOR MS LOVE APRIL
hi karen- soooooo glad to meet you!! i am one of ann’s patients here in la. i was dx a year ago, but of course like most of us, i have had symptoms for over 5 years. i am symtom free, work, work out, i have three little girls, am married and feel soooo blessed to have met ann and her healing plan!
it makes me feel happy that there are so many people like me who do not believe all the “medical information” that was thrown at me during my 5 day hospital stay. during such a vulnerable stage, the medical community puts fear into your heart if you consider not taking the ms drugs… i realize they mean no harm, they just do not know that there is another way. i choose another path- a healing path and have not looked back.
keep up the GREAT work co-warrior!!