The Genesis

This is the beginning of an excursion that has not often been attempted.  Because of me and my health issues, my family has been affected. 
Let me give you a little background:
          Over the past few years my health has been on a slow decline.  I have always been fairly athletic and definitely very active, I have also always had pretty decent seasonal allergies.  The biggest changes I noticed in my life came with these two areas.  I started feeling very fatigued and was not getting the results from exercise that I used to. Also, my allergies started getting worse every year. 
Well it all came to a head this last summer when doing my semi-annual fitness evaluation.  While performing sit-ups, my low back went out.  Now I had worked harder for this eval than for any other I had done, I had to because I wasn't getting results very quickly and I was committed to doing a great job. I was also considered overweight by the BMI scales.  months of working out didn't budge it.  So there went my back right in the middle of the test.  I was not going to let it keep me from my goal so I managed to eek out the most awkward looking situps you have ever seen to reach my minimum.  Unfortunately I was in bad enough shape that during the following run portion, I had to walk the last couple laps, obviously not passing.  I was not able to run more than a block for months. Due to my new limitations, my issues started compounding.

          In the middle of all of this, I was asked if I wanted to go to some product training for a line we carry at my wellness center.  It was down the road from where my sis lived so I said sure and took the fam down for a fun filled weekend.  This weekend changed my life.  This company, M'lis, is a full wellness company that deals with degenerative illnesses every day.  We were trained to assess and consult people through programs that would radically change their health for the better.  One of those programs was for Candida.  This yeast lives in our bodies.  It is supposed to be in the background in very small numbers until we die, when it is able to mass multiply and decompose our body.  Problem is that for some of us, our immune system craps out early and allows it to start multiplying.  It basically starts its job of decay early causing multiple slow symptoms.  While learning about all of this we all took our own assessment as part of the training... To my surprise, my score was practically off the chart.  My eyes were opened and I began to understand that there was actually something physically wrong with me.  I took the info to heart and started a full life transformation to health.  I started hydrating, really actually hydrating, not just drinking more water (will explain another time).  then I started working on my Candida program and diet.  I only did a 30 day program but it was a start.  within a couple weeks, my allergies were gone (even down the detergent aisle), my chronic congestion had cleared and I was down 15 pounds.  I finally felt alive again.  After the program I started Juicing like a pro and doing all the things for my body that it needed to be really, actually healthy.

In the process of all of this is when I found out that you can actually pass this stuff to your wife, through "contact", and then to your newborn babies.  My wife started having strange health problems with our second child, IBS, fatigue and others.  We then stumbled upon a book that was recommended at the training, that dealt with the whole family.  I don't mind giving a plug to this amazing woman.  The book is I Am My Child's Advocate, by Dr. JulieAnn Holland PhD, ND.  She went the extra mile with her family for her 3 year old candida baby.  They did the whole thing including the 3 day detox.  She says he is a different child, well teenager now.  I went to the company's 5 day advanced training a few weeks back and had the chance to sit with Dr. Holland and discuss my own little 3 year old candida baby.  I didn't even get started explaining to her and she said we had a candida baby.  I now believe that as my issues were starting, I gave the candida to my wife through "contact" who then passed it to Ian through birth.  This accounts for the timing of both their issues. 
Ian has not been a well kid from the start.  He has had food sensitivities and IBS especially with dairy, temperament fluctuations (more than normal for a little guy) and some physical signs of some issues including dark circles under his eyes and the classic candida budda belly.

So this is why we have undertaken this Excursion.  I am ready to do another program for myself (the first one was too short for my level and some symptoms are starting to come back), and have the experience and support from all of the amazing people at the M'lis company to guide me through leading my family to be well themselves.  This is definitely not a fad.  My family is committed to lifetime wellness.  We stay away from toxics and unnatural things as much as possible and do all the things we should to keep our bodies functioning in top shape.  My family will not be a statistic, my family will be well, chronically well.