June 2, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable Body Maintenance, Illness Prevention and Injury Repair ReferenceBy Dawn L. Whitehead on April 24, 2017
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I am reading this book for the fourth time just to make sure I haven’t missed anything. I have been using the info it contains to address some symptoms. I am a very healthy 74 year old woman who does not use mainstream allopathic medicine for health maintenance. I have seen an MD 4-5 times in 47 years. Over the past two or so years I have used 20,000 iu vitamin d3 to address lingering pain in shoulders from rotator cuff injuries, 7 warts on the bottoms of my feet, left hip ache which would occur ahead of rain storms from barometric pressure changes, a few little scaly fungus patches on my face, and a malformed toenail on one of my feet. All these issues were completely resolved using the D3 and K2 therapy described in this book. I would then drop back to a maintenance dose of 10,000 iu per day. I am going to up my dose again to address a “trigger finger” situation in my right hand and a mild on again off again pain in my left knee. Needless to say, I HIGHLY recommend this book. It will save you time and money. No need to see doctors who haven’t a clue or buy expensive toxic pharmaceuticals that don’t work anyway. The only side effects from D3 are surprising and welcome improvements in some other part of your body that you weren’t even thinking about!! I am now going to start giving it to my elderly doggie who has been ill lately. BTW, I have not had a cold or flu in YEARS! Everyone should have this book handy for reference in treating day to day health maintenance.
Update: Additional and very recent (as in today) d3 experience to report: I had a situation with my right hand which received a minor injury at work last September. I did not report it to workmans comp as they typically hand out drugs and do useless physical therapy. So no mainstream medical treatment was sought or used. I was looking for alternative treatments for the resulting trigger finger on the middle finger of that hand. It was swollen from mid palm to the middle joint of the finger and in addition to the frequent painful trigger snapping events, I was totally unable to lay the finger flat with the rest of the fingers, nor could I make a closed fist. Also, I could not use the hand for things like opening a jar or cutting roses due to pain.
I found an article about using an exercise of squeezing a small semi-soft ball to heal it. No luck. I tried infra red light therapy and acupressure. No good. I used ibuprophen and arnica gel topical for temporary relief, but of course did not expect a healing from the temporary methods. I absolutely refused to consider surgery as it, too, is often only a temporary solution if it works at all. Besides, potential iatrogenic issues could be really bad.
On about April 25 it occurred to me to try d3 increase for painful and now quite chronic trigger finger issues. I had been taking 10,000 iu of d3 daily with one K2 cap from Life Extension. I upped it to 25,000 d3 daily with two k2s. Low and behold, when I was out cutting roses this morning, I was able to handle the clippers easily without pain. These are really thick and thorny tea roses with very sturdy stems. It requires a firm attack with clippers and considerable pressure to cut them. At lunch time I laid my hand on the table and was pleasantly surprised to note that I could lay hand and all fingers totally flat with no pain or swelling visible and could raise wrist forward with hand still flat and no pain resulted. I next attempted a fully closed fist which I have not been able to do since early September last year. I can now close it about 90% but the attempt to close it entirely still causes pain. Even at the 90% fist close, a trigger snap and pain occurs upon release of the fist.
I am certain that continuing the high dose d3 will result in 100% recovery. Additionally, during the entire time I have had this problem, it was accompanied by a sore, swollen bony bump just about mid palm under the middle finger. At present, the bump is still there, but MUCH smaller and the swelling is completely gone. Mid-finger there is still some pain, but greatly reduced from about a five on a 1-10 scale to about a 1 and swelling there is completely gone. Quite amazing since it has only been about 10 days!