How Linda beat more than a dozen symptoms in just 5 months

Linda, from Cirencester in the U.K., contacted us because she had been struggling for a year or so with a number of unpleasant symptoms. She says:

“I was having trouble with my digestion, having suffered from diarrhea for over a year and was feeling pretty lousy. My health problems had ruined the family summer holiday and Christmas.”

As well as diarrhea, Linda had been struggling intermittently with the following complaints, which affected her digestive and cardiovascular health, mood, skin and reproductive system:

  • Diarrhea for last year
  • Abdominal discomfort and spasms
  • Occasional sharp stomach pains
  • Bloating and wind
  • Feeling hungry often
  • Cravings for salty and sweet foods
  • Sensitivity to certain foods
  • Palpitations
  • Low pulse rate
  • High blood pressure
  • Feeling cold
  • Swelling of her neck
  • Body hair thinning
  • Poor quality sleep often
  • Immune issues – ear, nose and throat
  • Anxiety
  • Tinnitus in the morning
  • Occasional back pain/fibromyalgia
  • Occasional pain in shins and hip pain
  • Itchy eczema on her lower legs
  • Repeated urinary tract infections
  • Discomfort when urinating
  • Frequent urination
  • Declining libido
  • Discomfort during sexual intercourse
  • Profuse heavy bleeding during periods
  • Vaginal dryness

Linda continues:

“I consulted my medical practitioner who suggested a whole series of tests and one of the tests was for H. pylori, which came back positive. My GP wrote me a prescription for the Triple Antibiotic treatment which is the standard treatment offered by the NHS, but I decided to investigate an alternative method to look at my whole body and came across Dave Hompes and Jack Walton.”

It’s really hard for doctors to assist when there are so many different symptoms – you can’t give a drug to battle every single symptom!

We were pleased the Linda took the plunge and decided to try natural, restorative medicine.

Although her case looked complex, it’s often the case that many symptoms can have only a small number of root causes.

Body systems don’t act alone––they are all connected. Often times, if you correct one or two of the systems, the others follow.

Linda’s lab test results

Linda ran a home stool test to dig deeper into what might be causing her diarrhea, bloating, wind and abdominal pains.

Her results were interesting. First, elevations in several bacteria were identified, as you can see in the snippets below. Enterococcus, Klebsiella and Staphylococcus were all elevated.

These microbes are recognized as being problematic in many areas of the body by western medicine.

But for some reason, they tend to be ignored when they overgrow in the gut. In fact, they are rarely ever tested.

Interestingly, Klebsiella and Staphylococcus can cause urinary tract infections. Gut and vaginal bacteria are often “shared” so perhaps these bugs were contributing to Linda’s frequent urination, UTI’s, and painful intercourse.

Notably, Klebsiella is also implicated in causing or contributing to autoimmune conditions, which may explain why Linda was experiencing other symptoms (perhaps there was an autoimmune thyroid condition, for example).

Next on Linda’s stool test, we found strong evidence that gluten sensitivity was a problem for her, through the anti-gliadin IgA value.

Via the Elastase-1 marker, we also saw that her pancreas was not making enough enzymes to digest food

Gluten sensitivity can trigger a wide variety of digestive problems. It can also cause issues in other parts of the body. Uncovering Linda’s immune reaction to gluten was possibly the most important test finding.

Linda’s hair mineral test result

Linda also conducted a hair mineral analysis, which revealed the following imbalances:

  • Generally low nutrient mineral levels
  • Greatly increased calcium to potassium, indicating underactive thyroid
  • Very low sodium to magnesium ratio, indicating adrenal fatigue
  • Possible mercury toxicity

Both gluten and bacterial overgrowth can trigger thyroid and other autoimmune conditions.

It was highly likely that the issues in Linda’s digestive system were contributing to problems with her thyroid, and this is likely why she felt cold, anxious, and had a low resistance to infection.

Linda’s progress

Working closely and steadily with Jack, Linda optimized her diet and altered some important lifestyle habits.

She followed a series of 30-day herbal and nutritional supplement protocols to remove bad bugs, detoxify her digestive system, and support her ability to digest food.

Linda also took some additional nutritional support aimed at restoring optimal nutrient levels and supporting her detoxification and hormone systems.

Her progress was rapid. Within a few days of altering her diet, Linda noticed some interesting improvements in her digestive system.

It appeared that certain oils and fats were contributing to her symptoms, especially processed vegetable oils.

In the following five months, she reported complete alleviation or significant improvements in the majority of her symptoms, as you can see below:

Post Symptoms

  • Diarrhea – completely alleviated
  • Central sbdominal spasms – gone
  • Lower abdominal discomfort – gone
  • Occasional sharp stomach pains – alleviated
  • Bloating – alleviated
  • Wind – alleviated
  • Feeling hungry often – alleviated
  • Cravings for salty and sweet foods – alleviated
  • Sensitivity to certain foods – alleviated
  • Palpitations – some progress made
  • Low pulse rate – some progress made
  • High blood pressure – some progress made
  • Feel cold – alleviated
  • Swelling of neck – gone
  • Body hair thinning – alleviated
  • Poor quality sleep – improved
  • Immune issues – ear, nose and throat. Alleviated
  • Anxiety – improving
  • Tinnitus – ongoing
  • Occasional back pain/fibromyalgia – alleviated.
  • Occasional pain in shins and hip pain – alleviated.
  • An episode of bilateral vision loss – alleviated.
  • Itchy eczema on lower legs – ongoing.
  • Discomfort when urinating – improving
  • Frequent urination – improving
  • Libido – improving
  • Sexual intercourse discomfort – alleviated.
  • Profuse heavy bleeding during periods – improving
  • Stomach pain during ovulation – improving
  • Vaginal dryness – alleviated

Towards end of the support process with Jack, Linda was able to have a holiday and travel without worrying about wellbeing and bowel movements.

Linda didn’t feel the need to re-test her digestion. She felt so much better and that’s what was important to her.

However, when Linda did a blood test with her doctor, it was the best result she’d had in over 20 years.

It was a fantastic result and she was understandably very pleased. Here’s what she said.

Linda’s full testimonial

“Jack and I worked together for around 5 months, during which time we ran a gut function test and I followed his protocol of diet and lifestyle changes with some supplementation and my health was transformed! I had the best set of blood results in 20 years and felt great. I would highly recommend Jack as a health practitioner to anyone and would definitely go back to him if I needed to.”

Simple solutions for complex issues

At first, Linda’s situation looked daunting – there were so many different symptoms to consider.

However, as I mentioned above, complex symptoms can often have simple causes and in Linda’s case, the digestive imbalances were contributing to her general health complaints.

Hippocrates said that the body is designed to heal itself and if it’s not doing so, there must be obstacles in the way. The doctor’s job, he said, was to remove the obstacles.

Gluten, certain dietary fats, bacterial overgrowth, and the previous H. pylori infection, were Linda’s main obstacles.

They’d compromised Linda’s digestive system, which in turn compromised her urinary tract, hormone function and detoxification system.

All Jack did was help Linda remove the obstacles, and her body did the rest.

Anyone can do this

As you see with all the case studies we share, the process is not so difficult.

We assess your health history, symptoms and eating habits, and we like to run a stool test to check digestive function.

The stool test is often the make or break factor––Linda wouldn’t have uncovered the root cause of her symptoms had she not bitten the bullet and done the test.

And that goes for most of our clients over the last decade or so.

Look, if you’re not assessing, you’re always guessing. You can feel unwell for decades if you’re not careful.

Life can pass you by in an instant and before you know it, a few irritating symptoms have turned into major health disorders, or even diseases. None of us want that.

You can have a stool test shipped to your door in a matter of just a few days. You complete your sample, then send it back to the lab.

Within a couple of weeks, you get the results and we run a 60min consultation with you to discuss the findings and suggest how you can achieve the same results as Linda.

Unfortunately, another of Hippocrates’ obstacles to healing is mindset. It’s natural to be a skeptical of health advice outside the medical system.

It’s also natural to want to ensure any money you spend on your health is money well spent. I’m the same.

If you’re thinking of these thoughts…

“It’s too expensive”

“What if the test doesn’t find anything?”

“What if I don’t get better?”

…I completely understand.

That’s why we offer a 100% money back guarantee on the stool test and consultation package.

If the test doesn’t detect imbalances, and it doesn’t uncover the reasons you’ve been experiencing symptoms, we refund every penny or cent.

So, if you want to transform your health, it’s a no-risk offer. You can’t lose.

I’ve said all I can for now 🙂

Click here to learn more about a stool test, or order one.

Look out for the next case study.

My warm regards for now.

Best,

Dave.