Guest guest Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 At 07:32 AM 12/8/06, you wrote: >An update on Willy and I >Posted by: " Allen Darman " allen_dar allen_dar >Thu Dec 7, 2006 7:53 pm (PST) >Dear group: > >This material has been long delayed, mainly due to the fact that a >party or parties) unknown to me repetitively hacked my computer all >summer long, an oddity that began soon after my son Willy's >ADHD/bipolar recovery story was widely posted on the Internet in June >2006. In being hacked, I lost all of the data on my hard drive, and I >lost the motherboard of the computer I was using as well. Who hacked >me? Was this just a random event? Or was it a person paid for by >pharmaceutical interests in an attempt to slow me down or discredit >me, as Willy and I represent such a huge threat to their treatment of >ADHD and bipolar disorder? I'll never know who proactively acted to > " shut my writing efforts down " by hacking me so repetitively all >summer long and in such a damaging way. I sure hope that this does >not happen again. > >Unfortunately, my new computer (an old one that was " fixed up " for me) >shows signs of being targeted as well. I only had my cable connection >installed at 5 PM on November 29th. In the first five days of being >online, my Zone Alarm Firewall says that I have had 2108 intrusion >attempts, 11 of which were high rated. It is now Thursday, December >7th, at 10 PM, only eight days and five hours after I got online with >what was essentially " a new computer " . Zone Alarm now says that I >have had 3071 intrusions blocked, and 16 of them were high rated. >Five days after being online (on Monday), Ad Aware found 47 critical >objects, one of which was a browser hijack attempt. BufferZone >Security (another free security program that I downloaded as soon as I >got online) counted 10,564 " unauthorized changes prevented " in the >first five days of my being online. All of these numbers are >unusually high, for a computer that has only been online for such a >short time and is only being used an average of six to eight hours a >day. I am apparently being targeted by someone. I have had a number >of people that are far more computer knowledgeable than I confirm this. > >I knew over six years ago that what I had discovered what going to >cost the drug companies billions of dollars someday. With Willy, I >now know that number is tens of billions… and that this day is coming >soon. In my opinion, " our twin recoveries " (father and son) >represent the end of the medical model for bipolar disorder. And what >I have known for years would obsolete every antidepressant on earth… >if I ever got some real help in regard to working out the details. No >wonder the drug companies are scared of me. > >On the positive side, there is much progress to report since I first >wrote Willy's amazing recovery story in June. The following is >Willy's updated recovery story, one that I sincerely hope that you >will enjoy. > >Lastly, the specifics of Willy's supplement regime and any other >natural measures that he used will be posted to the Internet by the >end of December 2006. > >Sincerely, > >Allen Darman > > From ADHD To The Honor Roll And More… Willy's Story as of December 2006. > >Every time I see my son, I realize that I am witnessing a miracle. >Willy's recovery from ADHD and childhood bipolar disorder in the past >twenty-eight months (beginning in August 2004) has been no less than >miraculous. Willy has gone from being severely learning impaired to >making the Honor Roll twice. He also went from being nearly the >weakest child in his class to the second strongest. Willy won four >academic awards last June at the completion of ninth grade, to include >the Principal's Award, which is the most prestigious award given. >(Only four children out of over 200 received this award, from a school >system that is considered one of the better ones in the US.) > >My son has certainly come a long way from being a sickly child, his >ADHD diagnosis, taking Ritalin for four and a half years, and failing >the third grade. > >Although Willy was diagnosed with ADHD at six years old, Willy was >actually third generation bipolar (my mother, myself, and then >himself). At six years old Willy said a few times " I think about >suicide a lot " . And as young as six Willy could talk non-stop for >over an hour with four people in a car, the rest of us hardly able to >get in a single word edgewise. Willy's ADHD diagnosis was a >misdiagnosis; he exhibited classic bipolar symptoms, just as my mother >and I did for decades. (I became well naturally from bipolar disorder >in the late 1990's.) > >However, none of this matters now! Not only did Willy overcome ADHD, >he overcame bipolar disorder in himself as well. He now exhibits no >ADHD or bipolar symptoms whatsoever, after having done so for about >seven years prior to his using natural therapies. No more mood swings! >Willy is one happy, stable, and content child. A teacher asked him >last year " why are you so happy all the time? " > >The beauty of my son Willy's recovery story is that " he essentially >cured himself " . I may have taught Willy what he needed to know, but >as a non-custodial parent, I did not have the liberty to apply >alternative medicine to my son, nor bring him to an alternative doctor >for the same. I had to teach Willy beginning at age thirteen what he >had to do to become well. However, he had to apply this knowledge to >himself, with no one in attendance to help him while he did so. > >In regard to Willy's physical health, there have been many remarkable >changes in the past two years. During his childhood he exhibited both > " easy bruising " and chronic spontaneous nosebleeds, as well as had >very soft teeth. He no longer bruises, nosebleeds are rare vs. >common, and his teeth are much healthier. Willy's ability to avoid >getting sick, his ability to tolerate cold temperatures, and his >ability to heal from an accidental cut he might get are all remarkably >better as well. > >Willy was also a very small child throughout his childhood vs. others >his age. This is not the case today. He has grown about six inches >in height in the past twenty-eight months and has gained about 60 lbs. >as well. He has also gone from a sickly child that could barely bench >press 60 lbs. in August 2004 to being able to bench press 240 lbs. in >May 2006, 250 lbs. in June 2006, and 280 lbs. at the end of September >2006. Willy can also leg press " over " 400 lbs. today. (Willy told >me told me that 400 lbs. is the exercise machine's maximum. He also >told me that he can do this leg press four times, which means that the >maximum weight Willy can for this exercise would actually be something > " over " 400 lbs. Willy also told me that he exceeds (can do) the >maximum weight on other exercise equipment besides the leg press >machine at the gym he goes to as well. Yet he is only 5'6 " tall and >only weighs only 175 lbs. himself (a gain of about 24 lbs. of healthy >weight since June). > >Willy is much stronger than most grown men, despite the fact he just >turned sixteen on September 18, 2006. Never in my life have I seen >such a weak sickly child gain the degree of health, physical strength, >and stamina that my son has, or come even close. And Willy did so in >such a short time (beginning in August 2004), with no parental pushing >of any sort, but rather by his own free choice and by using his own >self-discipline to do so. > >I did question my son a few days ago on how much time he actually >spends lifting weights. Willy said he goes to the gym about 3 or 4 >times a week, and stays for only about 45 minutes or so. Willy also >has a weight set at home, which he said he usually spends about 15 >minutes a day on. Willy is certainly not a kid that spends all of his >time in the gym or at home lifting weights... that's for sure. Like a >typical child in America today, Willy spends the bulk of his free time >on video games, computer games, or watching TV. He is not working out >all the time, or being pushed to work out by either of his parents. >Willy just does what he wants to, as most teenagers do... but he also >gets his homework for school done on time. > >A few months ago I questioned Willy on " what do you normally eat for >breakfast, and he said " a bagel and cream cheese " (to which I said > " Ouch! Can't you do better than that? Breakfast is supposed to be the >most important meal of the day " .) And he is eating a standard >(nutrient deficient) American diet (SAD) at home for the most part >(other than more fresh fruits and vegetables than most his age), as >well as he is eating standard (nutrient deficient) school lunches at >school. > >Only recently (in October and November), after Willy had bench pressed >280 lbs., did I get him any " standard weight lifting supplements " such >as creatine and glutamine. Willy's amazing gain in strength, health, >and wellness has come from probiotics taken daily, some reduction in >allergic food exposure, some digestive enzyme use, baggies of >supplements that he takes every other day or so, a multivitamin and >some of the other baggie nutrient components on the days in between, >and his own self directed exercise program at home and at the gym. >Willy does skip taking baggies of supplements every day due to cost... >as he knows that I just can't afford to " supplement him and heal him >all the way, if money was no object " . (What a lesson the world is >losing here, as the result of a lack of a few dollars that I just >don't have.) > >Willy is admittedly still somewhat reading impaired. However, this is >steadily improving, and it will hopefully no longer be an issue soon. >Despite being reading impaired, Willy made the Honor Roll twice (the >last two times he received his grades last June and this November), >and he got an 89 and a 91 on his two New York State Regents Exams last >year. > >How did all of this happen? > >It may have helped that I was Willy's father. In being his father, I >was able to visit Willy often enough on weekends to be able to teach >him what he needed to know in order to cure himself. As a >non-custodial parent I could not control his diet, monitor his >digestive or bowel health, or give him the supplements that he needed >to take. The only way we could succeed is that I had to teach Willy >to " become an effective doctor of himself " . (I estimate the total >time I have used to teach Willy was about 50 hours in aggregate in the >past two years… mostly given in snippets of conversations on the >weekend while I was driving somewhere, usually on a " woods or creek >adventure " , with my son. Much of the time I spent teaching Willy, I >was simply continually harping on hidden food allergy and other common >problematic gut issues, and teaching Willy how and why to cope with >them over and over again.) > >I had another serious roadblock in my way in regard to helping my son >Willy to become well. Due to the fact that my ex-wife staunchly >believed in the medical model and I had no legal say in my children's >health care decisions, this meant that for Willy and I to begin to use >alternative therapies we had to sneak around my ex-wife to get away >with this, or I could be taken to court. This situation sure put a >restriction on how things are normally done supplement-wise. My son >insisted at the beginning that we only use one supplement period >(regime) a day. He was as scared as I was of being caught, as he knew >how adamant his mother was against my suggestions to use nutritional >and natural supplements. So we decided in late July of 2004 to do >something very unusual supplement-wise. This was to combine over >sixty capsules or tablets of a few dozen different supplements into a >small plastic bag (we call this a " baggie " ), and take them all at once >in order to minimize the risk of his being caught. In truth, Willy > " invented the baggie " , not I. > >About five months after Willy and I began working together, Willy did >get caught. Thankfully, by the time this happened Willy had already >become so much better that my ex-wife wisely decided to let me >continue to work with my son without any further interference. > > From almost day one Willy knew that the baggie of supplements that he >requested and that I put together for him in the summer of 2004 was >extremely helpful to him. He clearly felt better on the days he took >his baggie vs. those days he did not. > >Almost half of the capsule count in Willy's baggies involved fourteen >grams or so of broad spectrum (over 20) free form amino acids, to >include one gram of tryptophan, one and a half grams of glutathione >precursors, and some taurine. > >Willy's baggie also contained the key " brain braking " nutrient >combination of L-carnitine and phosphatidyl choline, in order to cover >the single neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) that amino acids don't >make. (I personally feel it would almost invariably be a big mistake >for a bipolar person to take the amount of broad based amino acids >that Willy and I do without taking carnitine and enough phosphatidyl >choline as well at the same time. I also feel that it would be a big >mistake for a bipolar person that is recovering naturally to ignore >the tremendous therapeutic power of broad based amino acids, or to >ignore the therapeutic power of certain individual amino acids as well.) > >Willy's baggie had an " off-the-shelf " multivitamin in it, one that >contained many minerals as well. Additional capsules of vitamin B >complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, and zinc were added >to boost the dosages of these essential nutrients, even though they >were all in the multivitamin. (I felt the dosages of some nutrients in >this multivitamin were inadequate for my son's needs.) > >Willy's baggie also contained capsules of the " good oils " of fish, >flax, borage, evening primrose, cod liver, and coconut. In addition, >it contained digestive enzymes, super blue-green algae, chlorella, >spirulina, grape seed extract, quercitin, milk thistle, and later (as >I continued to improved the baggie ingredients over time) alpha lipoic >acid. (Willy's specific supplement regime will be widely posted to >the Internet in December 2006.) > >Nutrients definitely seem to work in synergy with each other. As >Adelle Davis alluded to decades ago, " give the body the full range of >nutrient tools it may need to heal, and let the wisdom of the body >(God? Nature?) do the rest " . > >Besides using baggies, Willy has been taking quality probiotics almost >daily from August 2004. Probiotics were, and still are, a critical >intervention for him. > >I am absolutely awed by my son's mental and physical wellness, and how >relatively easy it was for him to effect such wellness on himself over >the past few years. Willy sure seems " to set the bar " (the standard) >for bipolar and/or general health recovery worldwide. And yet he >tells me in regard to his recovery " Dad, what I did was so easy " (both >of us are amazed at how easy it was). > >Willy belongs on prime time TV... what a story he (or he and I) could >tell. Willy does not even have to say a word and he shows wellness... >his aura is one of health and happiness for sure. > >Perhaps some day the world will appreciate what my brave son Willy did >in regard to taking as many supplements as he has in order to cure >himself of ADHD and bipolar disorder. Thank You Willy for trusting me >when I told you that the baggie of supplements that I concocted in the >summer of 2004 would be helpful to you. And Thank You Willy for >accepting my guidance throughout your remarkable recovery journey to >much better health. > >Unfortunately, Willy and I now realize that there exists a very >substantial prejudice in most people at taking as many supplements as >we regularly do all at once. Willy and I both know that this >prejudice is in error. Taking many nutritional supplements at once is >not harmful (assuming they are adequately balanced). > >This prejudice against taking many supplements all at once will >probably be overcome in a little time. The truth here is that drugs >affect people in small amounts (a tablet or two), while nutrition >needs much greater physical mass to have adequate therapeutic effect >(and thus sixty or more tablets or capsules may be needed to get " the >healing job done " , as is the case with both Willy and I). > >For both Willy and I taking baggies is by far the most helpful >approach in regard to us " curing ourselves " and staying cured (getting >well and staying well). I cannot help but believe that some day it is >perhaps inevitable that millions of persons will be saying the very >same thing…. that " their baggies " of broad based nutritional >supplementation have helped them tremendously in regard to their >recovering their physical or mental health. > >However, please remember that supplements cannot do it all, especially >if you continue to eat your allergic foods, you have too much candida, >etc. poisoning you, or you lack an adequate amount of digestive >enzymes in order to digest your food intake well. When dealing with >ADHD or bipolar disorder, even if you use an alternative doctor to >guide you, it is wise to learn all you can about the common >malabsorptive issues of (1) hidden food allergy, (2) intestinal >dysbiosis (candida, too many " bad bugs " , parasites, etc.), and (3) a >lack of digestive enzymes, as these are the three most common >malabsorptive issues that actually cause ADHD or bipolar disorder in >the first place. Other health issues " that you can learn to fix in >yourself better than any doctor can " such as leaky gut, >detoxification, acidosis, hypoglycemia, environmental allergens, liver >cleansing, kidney cleansing, possibly low stomach acidity, inadequate >hydration, etc. may all also be worth learning about as well. (Sherry >Roger's books, found on www.prestigepublishing.com, may be a good >start as far as this learning is concerned. But don't just read her, >many other alternative health authors have written great books as well.) > >Don't fall victim to the drug companies, due to the fact you lack a >little bit of knowledge that you could learn by yourself. And don't >fall victim to medical doctors that do not understand the therapeutic >use of nutrients, hidden food allergies, intestinal dysbiosis, why and >how to use digestive enzymes, etc. These parties summarily either >promote or prescribe toxic medication for the sake of lining their >pockets and keeping their jobs. And don't fall victim to alternative >medical doctors that say you need a lot of expensive and marginally >useful laboratory tests (some tests may be wise, but many are not). >Educate yourself, like my teenage son Willy did. (At age fourteen, >after only a few dozen hours of my teaching him, Willy knew more about >how to " cure himself " of a lack of physical and mental health than any >medical doctor that had ever treated him.) > >God forbid I ever have the luxury of living with my son. Willy has an >even higher level of wellness to show the world, as I teach him " hands >on " how to rather readily effect such on himself at home, with no >medical doctor either present or necessary. Willy continues to learn >more over time in regard to what he needs to in order to become " a >more effective doctor of himself " . There is more that I hope to teach >him if we live together some day. > >Lastly, Willy has generated one of the most remarkable childhood >bipolar recovery stories in the entire world. (Even though Willy was >only formally diagnosed with ADHD, he was truly bipolar.) As a result >of my son Willy's amazing recovery, one that I essentially >orchestrated with " two hands tied behind my back " (I have not lived >with my son for ten years), I sure hope the world will begin to take a >look at my prior knowledge and my prior written work. As far back as >October 1997 I had made some crucial discoveries in regard to properly >understanding and treating manic depression (bipolar disorder). And >by April 2000, I had developed a revolutionary degree of insight in >regard to how to treat depression (this knowledge has become even >better over time). These discoveries may actually be important to the >survival of the very planet, as mood is such a crucial determinant to >human behavior. Even if they are not, these discoveries are certainly >very important to the survival of tens of thousands of persons that > " die by their own hand " every year (suicide). Yet these discoveries >are still at a standstill, due to the fact that I have yet to get any >of the help or the collaboration that I need. Hopefully, my son >Willy's story will result in my finding the resources that I need in >order to " finish the contribution that I wish to make to the world " . > >Allen Darman >http://360./allen_dar >allen_dar ****** Kraig and Shirley Carroll ... in the woods of SE Kentucky http://www.thehavens.com/ thehavens 606-376-3363 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.859 / Virus Database: 585 - Release 2/14/05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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