Just over a year ago, my husband had to get a blood test and physical for his CDL. A few days later his doctor called him and asked him to come in because he didn't want to discuss the results over the phone. He went back in and got the results: high blood sugar (not quite pre-diabetic, but close enough), high liver enzymes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure (not from the blood test), and he needed to lose at least 30 pounds in the next couple months. His doctor didn't really tell him how to lose the weight and fix all those problems, just that he needed to. He also said eat less starchy food, like bread and potatoes, but that was about it. The doctor also wanted to give him more prescriptions to manage his blood pressure and cholesterol, but he declined, especially the drug that was for lowering his cholesterol. It turns out that was a good idea, and I'll share more on that later.
We had been pretty active people before we moved from Utah to Nevada, but with our jobs and having to travel a ways to be able to hike or really get out and do something, we became less and less active. I started to worry a lot more, and decided I needed to do something for myself too. I talked to a co-worker and he told me what his girlfriend (now fiancé) had done for her health. I looked it up, filed it away, and forgot about it. I had even asked her about it, and the answer was " he is a chiropractor who practices kinesiology." For whatever reason, I decided not to even look it up.
By November of 2015, I was wearing a size 10 in work pants (I had been a size 4) and was starting to feel hopeless. Neither of us had done anything to get started, except for a few hikes and a few sporadic workouts, along with a few "healthy" meals here and there. We were low on energy and couldn't really decide what we should do about it. I had also fought insomnia for about a year; I was getting frustrated and was tired of being tired at work!
During the first week of January, I had another talk with my co-worker, and he again recommended this chiropractor in Reno who also practiced kinesiology (muscle testing). He described the process based on what his fiancé had told him, but he had never gone through the process himself. I looked up the website (I just tried to look up the website and couldn't find it--I'll update when I find it again), called to make the appointment, and texted my husband (Dave) to tell him about it. I didn't give him a choice. I just said we are going to see Dr. Mantz and see what he has to say. We looked up his business--a chiropractor who also does nutritional response testing (aka muscle testing or kinesiology). He tests each of the organs in the body by placing stress on them. If that organ is stressed, the strength in your arm disappears and he is able to push it down without much effort. If that organ is not stressed, your arm stays strong.
That was kind of a bad explanation for something that is actually pretty interesting, and Dave's results almost perfectly matched his blood test. His pancreas, liver, heart, and brain were stressed and were all priorities. I almost forgot to mention that Dr. Mantz wanted to send Dave straight to the hospital because his blood pressure was way too high!
My results surprised me: my spleen, immune system, and brain were stressed! I didn't (and still don't) get colds or other viruses very often, but there is a variety of autoimmune diseases in my family (diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis for example). We decided then and there go through with the program and after a rough couple of weeks (months?), we started feeling a LOT better!
After a couple months, they called us "rock stars" because we followed the program as closely as we could (not perfect, but we tried) and saw results. We really wanted this to work so we stayed with it. I think if we hadn't seen results right away, we wouldn't have stuck with it...I'll post our results soon!
I'm hoping to share the process of going through this program, and more with this blog. I'll share recipes and meal ideas along with what we did and are still doing to take control of our health! I've also done a ton of reading and follow a lot of health blogs and Facebook pages, which I will share a little later. They all have great information and are interesting to read.
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