Since I learnt about Serrapeptase, I have been able to move away from medically controlled symptoms, towards naturally sustained good health. The book will provide an overview of the research findings, which encouraged me to embark upon my adventure, together with my current, and continuing research.

My Serrapeptase Adventure: The Health-Care Survivor’s Story

Regular readers of My Serrapeptase Adventure will remember that just before Christmas, 2005, my life was about to change. One of my friends told me about “… an amazing food supplement called Serrapeptase.” As part of my research, at the time, I learnt about the work of the author, broadcaster and natural health advocate, Robert Redfern, The Serrapeptase Guy. Amongst the information, which I found were highlights from interviews, which Robert had given to The Power Hour Radio show. These recordings were a true gift to me because reading was very difficult for me; they enabled me to find the information, which would change my life. In a very few weeks, the show was to become the integral part of my own story, which it still is today.

On January 3, 2006, with my sceptic’s hat firmly on my head, I took Serrapeptase for the first time, sat back and waited for the results. I did not have to wait for long. Within just 48 hours, my lungs began to clear and over the following few days my lung capacity improved and stabilised. In the following weeks, my heart rate returned to normal and stabilised and my digestive system returned to normal. Before the end of February 2006, I was able to stop taking all my prescription medications and my condition has been stable and continued to improve since then.

By November 2006, my eyesight and visual perception, which were damaged as a direct result, and integral part, of cerebral palsy, had also begun to improve. My eyesight is now within normal range and my visual perception has also significantly improved. Does this mean that the remarkable enzyme, Serrapeptase, can overcome the impact of congenital brain damage? I do not have a complete answer to this, but I am enjoying the challenge of finding one.

There is now some research, based upon studies of new-borns, suggesting that inflammation may be amongst the underlying causes of cerebral palsy. One indicator for this is an elevated level of inflammatory cytokines. I am not yet sure that it is possible to extrapolate from this that reducing the level of inflammation, in adulthood, mediates the effect of congenital damage, but I am sure that it is a question worth asking, and that the answer will be a fascinating one to find.

2007 was the year in which the smallest detail became a visual feast and the awe-inspiring beauty of open spaces was shown to me with crystal clarity for the first time in my life. My ability to see new things for the first time, and familiar things with new clarity is, perhaps, the most exciting and unexpected of all the gifts of My Serrapeptase Adventure… so far.

For the first time, I was able to recognise the faces of friends from a distance, which gave me a curious mixture of the familiarity of established friendships, combined with the excitement of seeing someone for the first time; because they have, literally, looked different each time my eyesight has improved.

I continue to be most excited by being able to find beauty in the most intricate detail and the magnificence of open space. It is inspiring to see that the glint in the eye of a smiling friend is as beautiful as the best-known natural wonders of the world.

2008 was my third year, free from the ‘toxic cocktail’, popularly known as prescription medication. I continue to be inspired by the fact that Serrapeptase began to free me from my symptoms within hours, and then, within weeks, from the medications. This was the year in which I discovered that many of the symptoms from which Serrapeptase has rescued me were, in fact, known, and even expected, side effects of all the prescription medications, which I had taken, for decades, and about which I was never warned. I began to learn as much as I could about cerebral palsy and also about all the medications I had been given. I also took the opportunity to begin learning about the natural approach to sustained good health, including the various supplements, which have enabled me to be a survivor of the health and social-care systems of The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and to think of myself as The Health-Care Survivor.

2009 was a year of stability and growing confidence. It has also convinced me that I am now ready to put my gift of naturally good health to good use.

Research: Life And Health Are Far Too Precious To Be Abdicated To An Industry

Disease control, and even symptoms management both have their place, and many people have benefited from both, but they must never be confused with health care. It is crucial to defend the right of people to know the difference between health care and medical care, and to be able to make an informed choice between them.

Mike Tawse

My research focuses upon some of the critical issues, which I believe that each one of us must be able to address at a personal level and also as responsible members of society, in order to regain and maintain naturally sustainable good health.

It is becoming more obvious, by the day, that the health system is, in fact, dominated by corporate greed and control. It is a system in which good health outcomes are much less of a priority than most people believe or would want them to be. The true goal is mass control. In February 2006, The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme, Serrapeptase, cleared my lungs and freed me from the tyranny of the ‘toxic cocktail’, known as prescription medication. My own struggle to overcome the power of this system led me to call myself: The Health-Care Survivor and to be sure that life and health are far too precious to be abdicated to an industry.

I look forward to welcoming you to join the discussion, and follow my progress, on my Facebook Page. You are also welcome to follow me on twitter.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has continued to enable and inspire My Serrapeptase Adventure.

Ed McCabe discusses the true significance of oxygen in regaining, and maintaining, naturally sustainable good health. In this video, Ed explains why the medical and pharmaceutical industries do not want you to know the truth about how they have used their financial and political influence to promote drug dependence and the spread of reversible and preventable disease, worldwide.

McCabe is the author of the groundbreaking book, Flood Your Body With Oxygen. This video, from 2005, was made to promote the first edition of the book, but I first heard about Ed’s work when he appeared on The Power Hour radio show in 2010. When the book was revised, in 2011, Ed appeared on the show again and, as always, I continued to learn.

I am pleased to see that a four DVD presentation is also available to accompany the book, giving additional background and source material and providing even more persuasive evidence of the critical importance of oxygen as the key to naturally sustainable good health.

I would like to invite you to read the following post, written in Frank’s own words, and then to visit his website.

Like Mike Tawse, my family traveled a path to recovery that included the life saving skills of physicians and surgeons. And like Mike, we added the treatments, therapies, and health supplements, which improved the recovery process, and quality of life to a degree we had been told was impossible to achieve.

The difference is Mike Tawse has first hand, personal experience. He took charge of himself and in doing so improved his condition well beyond what his doctors had considered possible. My wife and I experienced the immense benefits of alternative treatments through the recovery process of our injured son. We took charge of Jonathan’s recovery after his life was saved by the medical profession.

Hyperbaric Oxygen, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Oregano extract, all were part of the therapies Jonathan received. The most significant and measurable improvements came as a result of the Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments, and Serrapeptase. Mike eloquently details how the enzyme inspired by the silkworm gave him back his eyesight and his life in ‘My Serrapeptase Adventure’.

We would like to share our son’s experience and invite you to visit: A Life Worth Saving.

Frank Duyshart

Update

A good source of information about the importance of oxygen is a book by Ed McCabe: Flood Your Body With Oxygen. Ed McCabe has also been a guest on The Power Hour.

Post Reviewed: May 13, 2012

Bernando LaPallo is 109 years old. He has been eating a raw food diet for more than one hundred years.

I have been hearing about the virtues of a raw diet since the very beginning of My Serrapeptase Adventure. Although most of what I have heard has made some sense to me, and I have always enjoyed some raw food, I have been sceptical that moving towards a predominantly raw diet could really be the key to good health, or the illusive ‘fountain of youth’.

When I first saw this video, about Bernando LaPallo, in December last year, I decided to begin 2011 with a new approach to food. I have gradually increased the proportion of raw food in my diet, so that it is now about one third, most days. My aim is to reach a point where the majority of my diet is raw, and then to maintain it, at least for long enough to determine how much of a difference it makes. After that, who knows? I may be converted… I will keep you informed of my progress, but whatever I decide, I hope you enjoy this video.

My thanks to: Naturally Healthy Publications, Really Healthy Foods and Good Health News TV.

Update

Bernando’s book: Age Less Live More, is an inspiration. In 1906, at the tender age of five, Bernando LaPallo began to learn the secrets of long life and optimum health from his father, a Brazilian-born doctor and herbalist. He was patiently taught the importance of proper nutrition, the wisdom of movement and exercise, and the profound value of faith. It was the start of a remarkable journey – a life that has spanned more than a century, without disease or any of the other afflictions so prevalent in today’s aging population.

After passing along his father’s wisdom to his children and grandchildren, with the same amazing results, Bernando decided that it is time to share his formula for health and longevity with the world; this book is a result of that desire. Join Bernando on an outstanding journey as he opens the doors to a new way of living, unhindered by stress and sickness, and shows how to add not just years to your life, but life to your years!

Post Reviewed: May 15, 2012

The first time I completed Get The Edge was at the beginning of 2006, at about the same time as my adventure started. At that time, I needed to rebuild my confidence and strengthen my resolve, to take responsibility for my health and well being, after many years of illness. The result was My Serrapeptase Adventure, and the confidence to accept the opportunity and the challenge that I believe has saved my Life.

My goal, this time, thankfully, is less dramatic. In order to move towards sustained research and writing, I need to be more disciplined about the time I dedicate to writing and reading every day. My Serrapeptase Adventure has allowed me to write intermittently, until now. It continues to be a pleasure to share my adventure with you, by posting details of any new developments.

The research for my books and into the scientific basis of My Serrapeptase Adventure will require a level of sustained concentration that I have not needed, or attempted, for many years. It is a challenge to which I am very much looking forward. So, what does this have to do with Get The Edge? The programme helped me to set my focus and to learn to trust in my own innate determination, at one of the most challenging and exciting times in my life. My hope, now, is that re-familiarising myself with some of the simple, but extraordinarily powerful, tools devised and presented by Robbins, will provide me with a welcome confidence boost.

The sleeve notes ask:

What do you really need to maximize the quality of your life?

From the sleeve of Get The Edge (2000) – Anthony Robbins

I have found the tools contained within Get The Edge, to be challenging but logical – A great combination. This is not the newest of Anthony Robbins’ products, but I still believe it is the best I have heard, so far. I am looking forward to all that I may discover this time.

Fortunately, I grew up with a family and friends who enjoyed reading, and many of whom were happy to read to me. Perhaps it would be fair to say that what I think of as an enjoyment of books could be more accurately described as enjoyment of the spoken word. As a child, I was fascinated by radio drama, without my eyesight being a problem.

As a very young child, I enjoyed the stories of Thomas the Tank Engine and several years later, I met Rev. W.V. Awdry, the author of the original stories. Although I was still too young, at that time, to have meaningful discussions about ‘being a writer’, I am sure that it was at about this time that I first formed the idea that writers were ordinary people who enjoyed sharing their stories, and that ordinary people, like myself, could be writers too.

Later, the stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known as The “Little House” Books, were read to me. I think my parents thought that they would give me an idea of my American heritage. I am not sure that they taught me much about my own history, but the books are filled with simple but evocative descriptions, which provide a springboard for the imagination, which was sadly lacking from the television films.

When Laura Ingalls Wilder started writing her classic “Little House” book series in 1932, she had no idea of creating fame for herself or the places where she had lived. She wrote simply to preserve tales of a lost era in American history, the pioneer period she vividly recalled from her growing-up years on the midwestern frontier in the 1870′s and 1880′s. When Laura completed her eight-volume series in 1943, she had achieved a lasting and substantial literary picture of pioneer life as she had experienced it in Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, and South Dakota.

Quoted from www.lauraingallswilder.com

In the ten years from my early teens, I enjoyed writing poetry. Although none of my poems was formally published at the time, I was honoured to be invited to take part in a number of local poetry festivals workshops and recitals. At one of these workshops, I met, one of the UK’s best-known performance poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, of whom it is said:

Young writers have said that the accessibility of his work has inspired them to take up writing, many record sleeves bare witness to the fact that he has inspired many of the new generation of rappers, and of all the performance poets that emerged in the late seventies/early eighties he is one of the few that is still going strong. He has thirteen honorary doctorates in recognition of his work and a wing in a west London hospital has been named after him. Zephaniah believes that working with human rights groups, animal rights groups and other political organisations means that he will never lack subject matter. He now spends much of his time in China, but he continues working throughout Asia, South America and Africa, and is as passionate about politics and poetry now as he has ever been.

Quoted from www.benjaminzephaniah.com

Although Benjamin’s style is, of course, very different from mine, I learnt a great deal from him and his encouragement, which is among the inspirations, to return to writing poetry in the future.

When studying for examinations at the end of secondary school (high school), I was honoured to meet one of England’s best-loved writers. The poet and novelist Laurie Lee, who was best known for his novel, Cider with Rosie, which was one of the books I was studying at the time. It was my privilege to meet Laurie on a number of occasions and to have the opportunity to talk with him about both the process of writing and about the places and the people, who inspired him.

Once he discovered that I was studying Cider with Rosie, and that reading was difficult for me, Laurie gave me the gift of an audio recording of him reading it. When I met him again sometime later I bought a copy of the book, which he autographed for me, including a comment that I had heard it already. Perhaps, like my more recent friends, Laurie also found it surprising that I wanted the printed book, despite both of us knowing, at that time, I could not have hoped to read it.

Like so many people who met him, I will always remember Laurie as an immensely gentle and kind man, with a great sense of humour and a tremendous appreciation of beauty.

In the early 1990s, my own writing took a new direction, when I started to research and to write the series of books, which now have the working title: The Disability Maze Books. Reasonably quickly, I learnt that many of the good people who work within the education, social-care, and health systems feel as trapped by them as do those of us who rely on their services. In this wide-ranging series of books, I will explore how elements of each of these systems could be refocused, reformed and, if necessary, replaced.

By the late 1990s, cerebral palsy was ready to remind me that it often has a sting in its tail, about which very few people are told until it strikes. It is true that the underlying brain damage which caused it had not changed, but the cumulative effect of the wear and tear caused to every system of the body simply by living with cerebral palsy, combined with years of toxicity from prescription medication had begun to overpower me and to send my health into a relentless downward spiral. I had to stop writing and concentrate on simple survival. In December 2005, I had finally accepted that this would be my lot for as much time as I had left and that there might not be very much of it.

Just before Christmas, 2005, my life was about to change again. One of my friends told me about an amazing food supplement; the miracle enzyme, called Serrapeptase. My research at the time showed that this might be a useful natural painkiller and I definitely needed one.

January 3 2006, was to mark the first day of My Serrapeptase Adventure. With my sceptic’s hat firmly on my head, I took Serrapeptase for the first time, sat back and waited for the results. I did not have to wait for long. Within just 48 hours, my lungs began to clear and over the following few days my lung capacity improved and stabilised. In the following weeks, my heart rate returned to normal and stabilised and my digestive system returned to normal. Before the end of February 2006, I was able safely to stop taking all my prescription medications and the improvements were maintained. The progress continues to this day.

By February 2006, I was writing again, but The Disability Maze Books were not the focus of my attention. Since no one, least of all me, or my doctors, had ever expected my health to improve in such a dramatic and sustained way, it soon became clear that I was embarking upon “a great health adventure”. To read the full and continuing story, you are welcome to visit My Serrapeptase Adventure website.

By November 2006, my eyesight and visual perception, which were damaged as a direct result, and integral part, of cerebral palsy, had also begun to improve. My eyesight is now within normal range and the improvement continues to this day. Does this mean that the remarkable enzyme, Serrapeptase, can overcome the impact of congenital brain damage? I do not have a complete medical answer to this, but I am enjoying the challenge of finding one.

Now that my health is stable and my continuing progress suggests that the future is one to which I can look forward with confidence, I am, at last, able to concentrate, more fully, upon the writing I had intended to do, so many years ago. I will, of course, enjoy continuing to share My Serrapeptase Adventure on the website and via radio. I am very pleased to be able to return to the research and writing of The Disability Maze Books, and to sharing my progress with you. It has been most exciting to learn how much easier it is to research information now that my eyesight and visual perception have both improved enough to make independent reading a practical option. I still need to work very hard to improve my fluency, but it is already better than ever. I like a challenge and life is good.

When I started work on these books, colleagues and friends asked me if I wanted to replace the assessment systems with which we are all familiar, with one of my own. Many of them also wanted to know where my focus would be set. Would I concentrate on the fields of education, social-care, or the health system?

My hope is to encourage a holistic, positive, approach to the assessment of individual needs. There is much evidence to suggest that assessments carried out by professionals in the fields of education, social-care and health, often have a negative focus. In simple terms, the aim of many forms of assessment seems to be to highlight limitations and to focus on the things that someone finds difficult, or impossible. This approach is often referred to as ‘the deficit model’.

My argument is not that the assessment process itself is negative. I believe that the problem lies in the limited way in which the information given by assessments is used. There is widespread reluctance to look beyond any deficits, which quite accurately, may be identified.

One reason for the popularity of deficit modelling is that it gives easily predictable and replicable results. There are obvious advantages for assessors with this approach. The assessor knows, in advance, that someone with a given condition is likely to respond in a particular way during the test.

The major difficulty with deficit modelling arises from this same predictability. It is far too easy to allow our familiarity with given conditions, and the test procedures, to guide us towards familiar responses. The danger is that conclusions and recommendations are not drawn from test results. Instead, recommendations are made from a predetermined stock. In short, deficit modelling can become a short cut. Instead of working to find the most appropriate course of action for the individual, this approach encourages us to decide which of our stock responses an individual can be made to fit. In basic form: if you have condition A, B, or C, then you need solution 1, 2 or 3. This approach quickly fails when the individual’s needs cannot be standardised. If someone has conditions A, C and F, for example, the predetermined model suggests that they would need three separate solutions simultaneously, solution 1, 3 and 6.

The problem occurs when multiple solutions are in conflict. There has been a tendency, for many years, particularly within special education, to concentrate on the dominant condition and to make some effort to accommodate the others. In turn, this has meant that the dominance of one condition, often leads to other needs not being addressed in the best possible way.

Replacing the deficit-focused approach requires us to add new ways of thinking to our established methods of working. Clearly, we still need to identify the things that individuals find difficult or impossible, and to identify limitations. It is my contention, however, that having done so, we should continue the assessment process to find any skills and abilities, which might indicate possible solutions.

The new element of a positively focused assessment will consider the impact of the individual’s needs as well as that of our recommendations. An impact model takes full account of the consequences of our recommendations on all aspects of a person’s life and includes consideration of the impact upon family members, friends and colleagues, whose lives may be changed when a person with a disability gains a new skill or level of autonomy.

The word ‘assessment’ conjures up an adverse emotional reaction in many people. We have all undertaken some form of an assessment, for instance when sitting an examination, and many of us have found it a distinctly unpleasant experience. Why should we assess people? Even more to the point, why launch a series of books on the subject?

Disability can limit the range of an individual’s communication, and his or her degree of independence in day-to-day life. This often means less is possible, less expected, less attempted and less achieved. Limitation breeds the assumption of further limitation. HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales once said, “Man’s greatest enemy is not disease but despair”. … [My] approach to Consultation, Assessment, Research and Evaluation (CARE) is grounded in the firm knowledge that this cycle must be broken. There are no magic wands. Nothing can remove a disability and no solution is ever achieved without flexibility, effort and determination. [We must] … provide an effective bridge between a person’s current level of ability and what he or she wants to achieve. It is a bridge whose central peers are potential, motivation and realism.

Mike Tawse, 1991 and 1994

Since many assessments are considered essential, and may even be required by law, improving their accuracy is a worthwhile goal. As well as the inaccurate use of tests, a breakdown in communication between professionals can lead to the wrong decisions being made, and inappropriate therapy or treatment plans being offered. Any one client may be treated, assessed or discussed by a number of professionals with different training, areas of expertise, vocabulary and approaches to assessment. The term “client” itself suggests one particular approach to care.

In the context of this series of books, it is crucial to keep in mind that assessment should be a positive experience, rather than, as so often seems the case, a self-validating one. One assesses in order to determine a course of action rather than for the simple pleasure of assessment for its own sake.

The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme is Serrapeptase – The 2nd Gift from Silkworms. By Robert Redfern.

For over a quarter of a century, the clinical use of Serrapeptase as an anti-inflammatory has been widespread throughout Europe and Asia.

This now “plant grown” enzyme was originally noticed over 30 years ago being used by the silkworm in its cocoon to dissolve proteins – hence the title of this book by a leading health expert.

In this book, you can read the amazing story of an ENZYME that is set to become the most widely used alternative to the majority of anti-inflammatory DRUGS – without the side effects, drugs can have! Discover how people that have taken this naturally occurring enzyme report genuine beneficial results.

The 2009 edition of the book includes The Mike Tawse Story – From Wheelchair To Wings.

In early 2006 I was to change my whole understanding as to what could be helped with Serrapeptase. Up until meeting Mike Tawse, I had always said there were limitations as to what could be helped with Serrapeptase. Mike Tawse, born with cerebral palsy, was to change all of that. In December 2005, Mike, who was then 36 years of age, was sat in his apartment, with very little quality of life and unbeknown to him, his friends were planning his funeral. Mike was on a multitude of medications from his doctors and was slowly slipping away. Luckily, he and his friends came across SerraEzyme. Within weeks (days??) he started to recover and within months his doctors took him off all of his drugs. Now, at 40 Years of age, his life continues to get better. I was so impressed, I renamed my book The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme is Serrapeptase.

Robert Redfern

Although I have been enjoying the benefits of Serrapeptase since January [2006], I still continue to be amazed by the speed and stability of my progress.

I would like to thank Robert Redfern for his inspiring work with Serrapeptase and I am sure that he will continue to bring hope to people around the world!

Mike Tawse

Post Reviewed: May 13, 2012