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“No more grizzly bear mode”
Every month for 10-15 years Ruby had entered “grizzly bear mode,” with severe symptoms of PMS and PMDD. She accidentally came across our website when researching natural solutions for the problem. Since she is petite and has a very sensitive system, she didn’t want the antidepressants her doctor offered. Because of her sensitivity she had reservations about taking our Essential Nutrients and Herbal Equilibrium, too. But when she read the product information and found they were all-natural and highly bioavailable, she figured she’d give the Program a try. Within just days she felt a difference, and her husband noticed, too. She hasn’t had another grizzly bear episode but once — the day she forgot to take her nutrients!
“You know how, when you surf from place to place and if it feels right, you click on it? Well, I ended up on your website quite by accident, just researching my symptoms and everything. I was looking for natural solutions to hormonal imbalance, because I kind of narrowed everything down to that. I’ve had PMS symptoms and PMDD symptoms — that’s what seems to fit me the best — for at least the last 10 years. And you pinpointed every symptom that I had. I took the hormonal profile and ended up in the ‘severe’ category. And I thought, if you have something that can really help me, that would be great. So I signed up for the Program and started taking what I call the ‘Magic Pills.’
“And you have to understand, I’m not one to go in for pills at all. Now I have a tendency to be a bit chatty about this to everyone because I love it — I’m even telling men! ‘If your wife is in grizzly-bear mode,’ I tell them, ‘you go to this website and then you take her to this website. This will bring that long-lost peace and everything else back into your life.’
“I’d say it’s been almost three months now since I started, but I saw and felt immediate relief — and that’s what I call it — after about the first two days. I started to level right out. To paint you a picture: you know how in cartoons, when a character gets shot, the bad guy just shoots them full of holes, and then they drink a liquid, and everything just pours right out of the holes? Well, this plugs up all those holes. Seals them right up. Before, it didn’t matter what I ate or drank, my system just did not feel filled up. No matter what I did, I just could not get satisfied. I just felt drained. Well the Personal Program is plugging up all those bullet holes.
“I noticed a difference by the second day! My system is really, really sensitive, even to vitamins. That is the one thing that gave me a little bit of hesitation. I cannot assimilate synthetic vitamins at all. If I eat cold cereals or Sunny Delight, I’m ready to go to sleep. I mean, the floor looks good to me. The slightest thing just knocks me out. So I went ahead and tried this anyway, since it is all-natural. The Herbal Equilibrium — I call it ‘The Equalizer’ — is awesome, and the combination with Essential Nutrients is just phenomenal — that’s why I call them Magic Pills.
“After the first week, I said to my husband, ‘So, you notice any change?’ And he surely did. Poor guy. You know, he even went and did research in the New England Journal of Medicine to find out about PMS, what would help me. And he found that milk and yogurt were supposed to help. So whenever I went into my grizzly-bear mode, he’d say, ‘Go drink some milk.’ And when it was really bad, he’d say, ‘Go get a cow,’ ‘coz we were fighting all the time. And I’d say ‘I don’t need it.’ I knew I needed something, because he wouldn’t say something like that just to throw it out there. But being in that grizzly-bear mode, I’d deny it to death. And that has absolutely changed. If a grizzly bear was to come to your door, and scratch on the door, trying to get into your house, to kill anything in sight, well, I would open the door right up and egg him on, if nothing else, when any sane person in their right mind would bolt the door. Before, I would take on anybody at any cost, because I was invincible. ‘I’m going to kill the world.’ And I haven’t been in grizzly bear mode once — I take that back — I didn’t take my supplements for a day. And I wasn’t as bad as I used to be, but it was visible.
“My worst symptoms were PMDD. I mean, it was severe. I’m 53, and I’d say I had those symptoms for at least 10 to 15 years. And I hadn’t found any solution. I tried Premsyn PMS — that’s another OTC deal. I took it and fell asleep eating my dinner, in the middle of a conversation with my husband! I stopped using it. But that was when it was really getting out of hand. I was turning into my evil twin. I’ve tried so many others I can’t even name all of them. But I went to the doctors and they wanted to prescribe antidepressants. I didn’t want to go down that road. Like I said, my system is so sensitive. I looked up all those antidepressants on the internet, and with all the adverse reactions they listed, I figured they would make me worse than what I started out at, knowing how sensitive my system is. That’s when I started looking for something naturopathic or homeopathic for hormonal imbalance instead, and didn’t really come up with much success. Thank God I found you.
“The Nutritional and Lifestyle Guidelines helped, too. My body was almost leading me in that direction, especially for the protein. And I love veggies, fruit, nuts, and all that. The guidelines are just confirming that the way my body was taking me is the right place to go, and they complement the nutrients very, very well. They work in tandem. They are very effective, and you see the results pretty quickly.
“My depression is gone now. I don’t cry when you look at me. Before, I would cry at the drop of a hat. I’d be on the computer, just playing mahjong or solitaire, and start crying. And just look at me. I have not cried. My husband would say, ‘What are you crying about now?’ And you know, when they get to that point, where you’re crying about everything, there’s something wrong. Being on this program has made me feel like I was back in control of my system, my body, my mind again. It’s such an empowering feeling. Because when you’re in it, you can’t explain anything to anybody, you can’t explain why you feel the way you do.
“What I like best is that, in the beginning, you called to see how I was doing. When I read that you do that on the website, I said, ‘Oh, yeah, sure, like everybody else.’ But you actually follow through, touch base to see how it is working, and just follow us with two to three calls. That is really encouraging. It feels good to know that there are other women out there who have the same situation, are going through it, or have completely gone through it. You can say, ‘I’ve done it. I know how you feel.’ You get confirmation that you’re not a candidate for the loony bin. I mean, the symptoms were really happening, not just in your head. There were times when my husband would say, ‘You’re crazy.’ Now he just makes sure I take my nutrients.
“I’m very stable now. I’ve leveled out quite a bit. But I notice it, if I skip just a day. I had to refine the dose, though. The dose that you recommend is twice per day. I started at that level the first two or three days. But it ended up being too much. Half that works wonders most days for me. I’m 4-10”, so the normal adult dose of just about anything is way too much for me. I had to adjust it to my system, and also with the vitamins. I don’t get drowsy with them.
“When I’m supposed to start my period, I double up. I’ve missed two periods so far. The Nurse-Educator told me irregular periods can start happening about any time now. It’s part of the process. I still notice it whenever there’s a full moon, and when I’m close to the start date — because I’ve been regular every month now for years — I have to take an extra packet. I get some of my symptoms coming back. I feel more agitated more quickly. That’s what my husband says, ‘You gotta double up.’ It alleviates my symptoms immediately. It’s as if I was a sponge, and somebody puts a little water on me, and I absorb it immediately. It’s awesome.
“I’ve told just about every woman I know, and some men, too. One man I told was a complete stranger. We were in a restaurant, and I was waiting for my son, and this man across the room was talking about his wife. And they were my symptoms he was talking about! I walked right across the room, and I said, ‘I don’t mean to interrupt you, and I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, but I just couldn’t help overhearing the symptoms you were describing about your wife. Well, I know exactly what you mean, because my husband has been through this too. I just want you to know, I found this website. It’s called Women to Women. Tell your wife to go there. When she starts taking these nutrients, she’s going to feel a marked difference in the way she feels, in the way she acts, and you’re going to be the beneficiary of that.’ He seemed real happy about that! I wish you could mass e-mail every single woman in the world with a sample. You’d get rave reviews!”
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Last Modified: 06/23/2008