Charlene lost over 161 pounds and became an inspiration for all

WOW what an inspiration Charlene Willson after facing 2 bad car accidents has faced her personal challenge and has lost over 161 pounds, I will be interviewing her on the Importance of Your Challenge next Tuesday at 5 pm PT plus we will be speaking to Jeanette DePatie to talk to Charlene on doing easy exercise when facing physical challenges . Join us and hear her story and in overcoming her last hurdle working out with pain.
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They told me to go home and die, I would not.

Pulmonary Fibrosis Controversy in the United States!

My name is Jerry Smith and I am a survivor of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. This lung disease is considered worldwide to be untreatable, incurable and the cause is unknown.  While Pulmonary Fibrosis is almost always referred to as a disease, the word pulmonary refers to the heart and lungs. Fibrosis refers to the thickening and scarring of the lungs.  Therefore the lungs lose their ability to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. As a result, the brain and other organs don’t receive the oxygen they need.  Pulmonary Fibrosis is not a disease but a resulting condition of a disease. The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation currently estimates a survival of two to three years following diagnosis. There is very little research being done in the U.S. It is my opinion that since doctors and researchers don’t know the causes, it is almost impossible to research for a cure. It is my opinion that there are too many different causes to determine what to research. I believe that I.P.F. is an “Auto Immune” related disease. The Auto Immune can be attacked by what we eat, drink and breathe.  So where do we begin?

I was diagnosed with this disease in 2004, at the age of 64.  I had a chest x-ray that revealed spots on my lungs. After cat scans, an MRI and PFT, a pulmonary function test, it was diagnosed as I.P.F. After my diagnosis, I had a lung biopsy in the hospital and it was sent to the Mayo clinic’s laboratory in Phoenix, Az. where my condition was confirmed. The PFT test is breathing into a computer inside a glass booth to measure the lung capacity and the lung diffusion rate.  The lung diffusion rate measures the amount of oxygen pumped into the blood stream. This is how oxygen is fed to all parts of the body. The amount of oxygen the body receives affects body performance, every part from muscles to the brain. My lung capacity was 63%. My pulmonary doctor told me that I had a “Death Sentence” with an estimated six months to live. Since there wasn’t any medicine or treatment for it, that Friday night, all I could do was go home and wait for the end.

Why Your Cure May Have To Come From Overseas— And American Doctors Will Try To Stop You!

American's often assume that they have access to the best level of health care in the world.

When they walk into a doctor's office, whether that doctor is a general practitioner or a specialist, the chronic pain patient feels assured that the doctor standing before them knows about and has access to all the latest advances in medicine, can properly diagnose them and prescribe the most appropriate treatment known. I'm sad to say that this is not true.

For many reasons, numerous therapies that are approved and effectively used in countries around the world are unknown, untried or even banned in the United States. Consequently, more and more people are seeking treatment outside the United States. I am just one example.

Determined not to give up, I sought the help of a doctor in Germany, was cured of this disease and now in 2012, at age 72, I am alive and well.  My story reveals why your cure from diseases, chronic muscle and joint pain may also have to come from overseas.

That Friday night I began searching the internet for any help that I could find, including medicine, treatment, cures, doctors treating P.F. patients and/or cures. Then I found a Dr. Horst Kief in Germany who had had his own laboratory for over twenty five years and done extensive research of all types of cancers with increasing numbers of cures.

Doctor Kief requested I send him 20 cc’s of my blood to be analyzed. I then went to eight different doctors in my area, all of whom refused to work with me. Their comments ran from "What do you want to do with the blood? This is outside of the AMA 'box', a waste of your time and money," to "Its voodoo medicine." 

I finally found a homeopathic doctor in Fort Worth, Texas who took my blood. That blood was sent to Germany. After months of analyzing it, Dr. Kief created an eight month’s supply of serum and I sent him 200 cc’s of my blood to mix with the serum. He then processed that serum through an Ozone-Oxidation machine and I was able to travel to Germany to pick up my serum and instructions.

After using the serum, my lung capacity stopped dropping and the doctor prepared another eight month’s supply of serum. The doctor tweaked the second batch and made it stronger. By the time that I had finished the second batch, my doctor in Germany declared that I was totally cured. I went to see my pulmonary doctor here and he assured me that I was in total remission and that was June, 2008. I was left with permanent damage to my lungs with a forty percent loss of lung capacity. My question to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation and the medical profession is, if I.P.F. is incurable and there is only two to three year life expectancy, then how do you explain that I am alive almost nine years after my diagnosis.

I contacted the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation in Chicago and the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis in California, organizations that work to prove or disprove medical claims.  After giving them numerous medical records, including the hospital lung biopsy and a letter from my doctor stating I was cured, they informed me that I was either lying or misdiagnosed. I finally arranged for them to talk to Dr. Kief in Germany, but neither organization ever contacted the doctor.

There are statistics that show there are currently 200,000 pulmonary fibrosis patients in the United States and 138,000 individuals in Europe, with approximately 45,000 new patients yearly and about 40,000+ patients dying yearly in this country.. There are about the same number of people dying from pulmonary fibrosis annually as women dying from breast cancer. And yet everybody is aware of breast cancer but almost no one has heard of pulmonary fibrosis. Today there isn’t any funding and not much research being done for pulmonary fibrosis. Even today, weekly emails that I receive from the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, headquartered in Chicago, Il, claim that there still isn’t any known cause or cure for this disease.

A recent development- THE PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL PATIENT SUPPORT GROUP INITIATIVE AND GLOBAL PULMONARY FIBROSIS AWARENESS DAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2012.

The workshop will take place in Modena, Italy. It will address why Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has an average survival of only 2-3 years following diagnosis and that there is no known cause and no cure for IPF. There also is no FDA-approved treatment for IPF in the U.S. and very limited therapeutic options available for a subset of individuals with IPF in the EU and Asia.

Please contact me at my e-mail address;  jerry@jerrysmith.org
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You're IMportant to Sara radio show

11 AM TODAY PT Take a breath with my guest Heidi Thompson, breathing technics that will calm you, breath before you speak, and teachings our children to just breath rather than taking a pill.
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Who is my First guest on Importance of Your Challenge

Who do you want me to interview to help you with your challenge on my September 11th show. Got an idea? then let me know.

September 4th at 5pm PT my show Importance of Your Challenge will launch. Come and join me in placing importance on your personal challenge journey and  accomplishment.

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Welcome to Importance of Your Challenge Blog.

Welcome to Importance of Your Challenge Blog. 
Here we ask you to place importance on yourself for a period of 90 days in any way you want.
Do you want to lose weight?
Do you want better health?
Do you want a fuller life?
Do you you want to give up smoking?
Do you want to feel passion again?
Do you want to take that plunge and go do some thing you never have done before?
Do you want to set a goal for yourself in accomplishing some thing important in your life?
What ever you want to do for yourself, dedicate 90 days to it and we will stand by you in achieving it.

Here on this blog and through the radio shows, you will find encouragement, support, experts, direction, and belief in your personal challenge.
Just share with us your challenge, sign an agreement to yourself stating you will dedicate to yourself this important challenge over the next 90 days, and ask us in which way we can aid your success.

I am your host and your supporter Sara Towe