| From her own healing experience, Celeste Pepe, DC. ND., has explained nine steps that can help people with multiple sclerosis deal with this troubling disease. In her new book, Reversing Multiple Sclerosis (Hampton Roads,) Dr. Pepe takes you step-by-step through ways to cope with MS that can help you lead a normally functioning life: how to identify which nutrients you need, and helpful therapies including allergy testing, dietary changes, a personalty tailored nutritional plan, supplements, chelation therapy, regular exercise and the replacement of amalgam dental fillings. |  |
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| Multiple sclerosis can create a devastating attack on the nervous system. As Dr. Pepe points out in her book, "Multiple sclerosis is the appearance of multiple scars, or lesions, along the protective casing that surrounds the human nervous system. MS interrupts the flow of impulses from the brain to the different sections of the nervous system, reducing sensation, motor control and eventually most voluntary motions, especially the use of the body's extremities, the arms and legs." |  |
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| She also points out that, "The term sclerosis means scarring. (MS) Lesions develop along the wall of sheathing cells that house the nervous system, particularly the central nervous system. Given all the problems that encompass MS and the low rate of success of the conventional treatments medical doctors recommend, Dr. Pepe decided to investigate alternative methods of treating her disease. Since she has successfully dealt with MS in this way, her book is one of the methods she is using to share her curative knowledge with others. "My purpose is not to fly in the face of mainstream medicine," she notes in the book, "or to point a finger of accusation at the medical industry, government or practicing physicians. Regardless, undoubtedly some of those entities will indeed take exception to the contents and term them controversial." | ||
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| "I never began this search considering what other members of the medical community or people in general may think of my decisions." Her decision to seek a better way to cope with her condition has been rewarding: " . . . after my own diagnosis, I refused to accept the pronouncements of conventional medicine that insisted that my return of health was an impossible hill to climb. I simply walked around to the other side of the mountain. I sought for, and found, the answer on another road. My five-year journey began as I set out to find the cure on an alternative path. A journey the MS patient today can also choose to undertake. A journey to wellness, to victory. A journey to a cure." | ||
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| Dr.
Pepe's problems with MS began on her birthday in 1994. "Everyone coming
into this lifetime who suffers a serious disease, has that kind of experience
so that we can find answers," she says, "I wasn't freaked out (by getting
MS), I just knew this was my destiny."
One of Dr. Pepe's motivations for finding natural ways to deal with MS was her personal observation that the usual methods were not helping people she knew. "When I was diagnosed, the only established treatment was interferon. My physical trainer, I knew, was doing badly on interferon. "I made a lot of phone calls, and found that everyone recommended taking out all the mercury in my mouth. And that, right away, made a big difference." As she explains in her book, taking out her mercury fillings cleared up her thinking and "brain fog." |
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| In Reversing Multiple Sclerosis, she refers to the work of Hal A. Huggins, DDS, who "believes that many of the autoimmune diseases prevalent in society today, including, but probably not limited to, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrigs, lupus and breast cancer, are caused, or at least exacerbated, by toxic mercury amalgam fillings placed into the teeth of the patient over the course of a lifetime of denial treatments." Dr. Pepe "became convinced that even if excessive mercury had nothing to do with MS, it would be advisable to have these fillings removed from my mouth and replaced with other, safer substances without further delay." | ||
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| Physical activity also makes up an important part of Dr. Pope's arsenal against MS. "Exercise, exercise, exercise," is the advice she says she got from the Jimmie Huega Center in Avon, Colorado. Jimmie Huega is an Olympic skier who, after he was stricken with MS, persisted in training for international competition, winning a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games and founding his center whose mission is to "Re-Animate the Physically Challenged." As part of her regimen, Dr. Pepe continues to exercise: "I don't overdo it. I exercise every other day, not till exhaustion or until I have problems with my leg. But I use my treadmill and then the Stalrmaster, work my upper body, do yoga, floor exercise and my recumbent bike." Dr. Pepe advises those with MS to " . . . develop a regular routine to strengthen and maintain muscle tone (or) you risk losing mobility. Once it is lost, it can become a slow and painful process to restore your range of motion once again." | ||
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| Chelation Therapy In treating her own disease, Dr. Pepe underwent chelarion therapy, "a process in which toxic metals are stripped, or chelated, from the body. This is done through a series of intravenous injections with a substance known as DMPS, which binds ro the mercury and other heavy metals that are present in the blood, converting them to waste materials, which are then eliminated from the system through the urine. The amount of toxins removed in this way is measured by periodic urinalysis." This process was performed after Dr. Pepe had the mercury removed from her teeth. | ||
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| Bee Venom Therapy (BVT) Dr. Pepe also recommends that MS sufferers consider bee venom therapy, However, she cautions, because of the possibility of an allergic reaction, "a patient considering BVT . . . should always have proper emergency treatment available and engage in this healing module under the supervision of an apitherapist, a physician or nurse familiar with the practice of BVT." Dr. Pepe also uses other bee products including propolis, pollen and royal Jelly, and she notes that "BVT has been repeatedly successful in aiding the restoration of mobility and the lessening or eradication of many MS symptoms." | ||
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| Dr. Pepe hopes that her example will lead others to find their way to coping wkh MS. "I have told my personal story (in the book) as if speaking to a good friend, holding nothing back. I want those who have MS to know that I did not attain my healing through some special strength or superior ability to handle a crisis because I am a doctor. I achieved this victory because I was willing to make a commitment no fight for what I wanted and to never ever give up. If I can convince just one MS patient to try these healing techniques, then the erfort incurred in the writing of this book will have been well worth it." | ||
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| To order Reversing Multiple Sclerosis by Celeste Pepe, DC, ND, and Lisa Hammond, call toll free 1-877-785-4500 ext 601, 8-4pm PST. For more information, visit: http://www.mycuresbydrpepe.com/ | ||
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