Transformation

In March of 1994, I met Mark Boardsen, a man recovering from a back injury sustained when the vehicle he was driving was rear-ended by a garbage truck.

FATAL PROGNOSIS

Almost four years later in March of 1997, Mark was told by the world’s leading CRA doctor that he had one year to live. He was toxic. What ensued was a desperate search for the solution to some-thing we couldn’t put our hands on.

CHEMICAL INVASION

We weren’t told the source of toxicity. Was it the Mercury in his numerous, huge dental fillings? Mercury is the second most poisonous metal only to Plutonium. Was it from inhaling too many caustic fumes from a paint factory where he did an investigation? Or inhaling PCB fumes while doing vinyl repair? Or was it breathing vehicle exhaust fumes for seven years as a motor vehicle inspector? All of these are the most toxic, potent, deadly carcinogens known to date.

The real cause, he believes, was in the early spring of 1979. When the strong, lean male in his physical and mental prime suffered a freak accident. Falling off a newspaper truck he was riding on as it rolled to a stop, he fell to the road. The truck rolled to a stop while on his thighs. After hearing Mark’s screams, the driver soon realized what had happened and hit the gas. This snapped his left femur in half. Mark remembers that his left foot was next to his head and that his thigh was the size of a basketball. Ironically, this happened in front of a hospital.

Seven specialists gave him as many drugs as they could to keep him alive, and to keep him out of pain. They injected the maximum amount of morphine spiked with an enhancer, every two and a half to three hours, 24 hours a day for 40 days. His pulse was 160 and he was throwing pulmonary embolisms. They kept him on Morphine waiting for his heart rate to drop far enough to anesthetize him for the opera-tion. One morning the doctor came in his room with a cup of painkill-ers and told him the Morphine was over. No weaning. In addition to the leg healing, he now had to deal with kicking a full-blown morphine habit “cold turkey”.

The drugs turned his hair gray and white. He lost 40 pounds in 30 days, reducing him to 145 lbs. He was starving to death in a hospital bed. With no strength and a medically induced morphine addiction, he also suffered the mental anguish wondering whether he would ever walk again.

After 30 days of traction, his body was stabile enough to endure the operation to repair his leg. “I assumed it was a routine rod insertion into the femur. I had no particular worries about the actual mending of the break. The only thing that was in question was the nerves. They would not tell me if my leg was going to be all right. They told me they could fix the break, but not one of them ever told me if I would be able to use this leg to walk on, I could never get an affirmative answer.”

A steel rod joined the hip to the knee and then a steel plate with screws rested on the outside of the femur to stabilize the healing bone. “After the surgery, I was in excruciating pain, which is not abnormal for that kind of operation. I had adhesions (skin connects to the muscle below) from surgery the entire length of the femur.

Ten days later, the doctors sent Mark home with mass quantities of tranquilizers and painkillers. His only comment as to how many he took was “It was enough to have any one else’s stomach pumped. I chased it with an adequate amount of liquor to keep myself as numb as I could at all times. The doctors felt all they could do was make me comfortable. When I got home, the pain was unbearable and never improved. From time to time, I was paralyzed. I either couldn’t get into a seated position, or I couldn’t get up. If I was lucky, the leg would unlock itself while I was sleeping and that was the only time it moved, because the muscles were so tight. I was in pain that could never be adequately described.”

To speak of it still brings tears to his eyes as he is overcome with emotion about a time that would rather not remember.

“Two and a half months later, I thought I should be experiencing improvement. The doctor continued to give me massive prescriptions and reassured me everything was fine, it was just a matter of time.”

"I KNEW I WAS IN TROUBLE"

Meanwhile, Mark’s sister arranged for him to be examined by one of Baltimore’s finest orthopedic surgeons.

“I knew I was in trouble in the exam room. I saw the doctor call the other doctors into the room. I heard ‘Look what they’ve done to this guy.’ They dispersed, visibly shaking their heads in disgust. Showing me the X-ray, he pointed to a 1 ½” piece of steel protruding from the top of the femur into my hip. They told me it shouldn’t be there and needed to be replaced with a shorter rod.

All of this time, I was dragging a 1 ½” piece of steel back and forth across my sciatic nerve. If anyone has ever had a dentist hit a nerve while drilling, imagine that constantly. The kicker was that it couldn’t be extracted until the bone had healed and set which meant that I had to endure this way for another six months to a year because the bone had to be strong enough to endure another operation. I was screaming and hitting things. I was having to stay in one position all day with no pressure on that leg.

By the end of 1979, the new rod was put in. A year later, there was still a lot of pain due to the expansion and contraction of the rod with weather. The doctors decided to remove the rod. The leg was reopened, but the mission aborted when the bone refused to give up the rod.

“I spent two years pumping a lot of drugs into my system and it changed my life. I had massive amounts of drugs injected into me and administered orally.”

CHEMICAL IMBALANCE

He has always looked at his leg accident as the turning point of his poor health. Mark recalled:

“I could feel the chemical imbalance. It was just an intuitive know-ing that I felt my whole body was changed and numbed. It was intoxicated with all of the chemicals and was never the same. My ‘dis-ease’ with myself was not limited to my leg. It was changing how I felt in my body.My emotions, my strength, my mind. How much was due to chemicals or the pain, I’ll never know. I’ve always felt that nothing ever worked as well again; digestion, elimination and thought. Even how I feel hot and cold. From that day on, I never weighed the same weight for two consecutive days. Prior to that time I was 185 pounds every day.”

"MY DOCTOR GAVE ME STEROIDS AS A BOY"

“Because I had an ongoing sinus problem, my doctor gave me steroids as a young boy. That was before doctors knew steroids would kill you. I was allergic to penicillin. That tells me my body didn’t want that kind of substance in it even then. Nevertheless, I was given my share of anti-biotics just like all the other kids growing up, with sinus and throat infections.

My grandfather owned a candy store and that’s where I had to go to be baby-sat. As soon as my second teeth came in, I was off on the process of having my teeth filled. My dentist would do anything to save a tooth. He literally hollowed out my teeth and filled them with Mercury.”

Mark had his first concussion at the age of 4 and by the time he had his leg accident he already had five more. Since then, he has had diffi-culty retaining information both short and long term, remembering names and what he just did. He was at a loss for particular words and his mind went blank in the middle of a thought when he said, “I had to try not to be ‘spaced out’.”

STRESS WAS HIS CONSTANT COMPANION

Mark became a Motor Vehicle Inspector and at the same time, served on the New London Police Force. By the age of 24, he experienced stress related intercostal nerve spasms and was ordered to bed rest for three weeks and put on a new generation of tranquilizers.

At 25, he experienced his leg accident. After recovering from that, Mark became a private investigator working sometimes working 60-100 hours a week in high stress situations. “The food I ate was anything I could get on the road. I drank Pepsi all the time and a gallon of milk a day to keep my stomach coated from all of the other things I was putting in it. I look back now and have no idea how I did it.”

MORE TOXINS!

In search of a less stressful lifestyle that allowed him to live at home, Mark retired as an investigator and began a busy commercial upholstery and vinyl repair business. During the winter, he drove an oil truck for a friend who owned an oil company. To his repertoire of ingested poisons he now was able to include the highly toxic PCB fumes and #2 home heating oil.

WHAM!

Five years later, the dumping of chemicals into the system of Mark Boardsen came to a halt. While waiting at a stop light in his oil truck on the infamous day of December 7, 1992, he was rear ended by a garbage truck. Unable to breathe or talk, he was rushed to the emergency room. The result was one herniated and one injured disc in his lower back where he was given literally hundreds of both anti-inflammatory and psychotropic tranquilizers to calm the inflamed sciatic nerve. His doctor assured him of a back operation. Refusing both operation and tranquilizers, he took the anti-inflammatories.

THE SEARCH FOR A NON-CHEMICAL ANSWER BEGINS

“I close friend of mine had recently passed away due to a drug over-dose and it affected me very deeply. It was the wake-up call I needed. I began searching libraries, book stores, TV and asking friends about non-chemical, non-surgical alternatives to treating my back. I already had botched up surgeries and did not want to go through that ever again.

I finally realized that if you are going to walk into a Dr.’s office there is nothing else they can do other than to give you a prescription or schedule a surgical procedure. I eliminated those two from my list.

Alternative medicine was all that was left. I was encouraged to take nutritional supplements as a help. I went to the supermarket and bought a bottle of this and a bottle of that but it didn’t seem to help.”

MAGNETS?

November of 1993, Mark’s sister called him; just 350 days after being rear-ended. She suggested that he try a magnet to help his back and told him that it had helped her with a health challenge she was having. Desperate for help, Mark agreed to try and to this day is glad he did. His back drastically improved very quickly. This began a voyage of discovery that will never end.

I met Mark the following March. By the fall, I noticed that he was changing. After a presentation he gave one evening, he seemed to be gasping for air. I asked him if he was all right. He said he didn’t know ‘why’ but he was having a hard time breathing lately. “Every thing’s goes fine and all of a sudden I just stop. I run out of gas.”

His stamina continued to decrease continually after that. Headaches soon followed, with occasional nausea.

SPIRALING DOWN FAST

In 1996, Mark developed a cyst in his lower, right jaw in the wisdom tooth area. It grew and the discomfort increased daily. He al-ready had a problem with his jaw in that it sometimes locked in an open position or wouldn’t open far enough to take a bite of food.

Three dental surgeons told him they couldn’t operate on it without breaking his jaw and one told him he would have to have a piece of his hip taken out to be put into the jaw. I encouraged him to keep looking for a surgeon who said it would be “no big deal”. Finally, in New Haven, he found one of the country’s leading dental surgeons to say it was a “routine” procedure.

All of the memories of his leg surgery gone wrong were haunting him. When all was said and done, he came out of it (and he was shocked) with nothing more than some gauze and stitches.

In retrospect, the significance here was in that it indicated that even his most basic systems were beginning to break down. After that it all began to crumble.

By the spring of 1998, his health had further deteriorated with no hope of improvement in sight. He was evaluated by the world’s leading Contact Reflex Analysis doctor. “You are a very sick man. You’re toxic. If you don’t do something about this, you’ve got another year to live at most.”

TAKING HIS HEALTH IN HIS OWN HANDS

Stunned and shocked, Mark began his own investigation. He searched the Internet, books, doctors, friends, relatives, referrals, radio, television, lectures for anything to do with medicine - mainstream or alternative.

He needed to find something that had the potential to turn around a system. All in all, he tried 32 different types of alternative health care approaches. All to no avail. Every moment of every day was spent looking for an answer and was led on an ever-spiraling journey down-ward, sometimes hopelessly out of control. His health was failing by the day. His legendary long hair was falling out at such a fast rate that he cut it; something he swore he’d never do. He was desperately grasping at anything along the edge of life’s spiral to keep from being sucked into its inevitable hole of death.

In January of 1999, the date of his predicted end was drawing near. We were fortunate enough to fulfill one of Mark’s lifelong dreams by going on a cruise. His emotions vacillated between the joy of love and support from friends on board to a deep depression in the solitude of our cabin’s dimly lit Jacuzzi. I remember the song playing at the time: Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. It was the song that brought back teary-eyed memories of his leg accident and recovery. Now, similar thoughts ran through his head. “Will I ever recover? Will I live to take my trip around the world? My lifelong dream? Forget the TRIP… Will I live past March?”

Fortunately, Mark was relentless in his search for an answer and his latest case was to save his own life. If anyone could, he could. But could his health hold out long enough to succeed? We weren’t sure. We watched it degenerate on a daily basis.

Stamina and failing health became a problem. Depression, lack of coordination and motor skills, joint pain that moved from place to place, failing vision, low body temperature of 95-96°, poor concentra-tion, cloudiness of thought, loss of memory, shortness of breath, nausea and headaches were constant. Going from one floor to the next became a two part journey. He was gaining weight rapidly until he reached 256 pounds. He was scared. Was it ever going to stop?

The simple breaking of a sweat became synonymous with a “toxic dump”. The odor was pungent and chemical-like. Clothes were ruined with stains from whatever it was that oozed out of the pores. A rash was left behind as the toxins burned the skin on their way out. The pores would swell and be “hive-like” afterwards, leaving the flesh raw and itchy. Now he knew why he felt like every cell in his body was on fire like he had described one day. They were! His cells were soaking in toxic waste.

A sick feeling could overwhelm him in an instant and stop him in his tracks. He had no warning when or where it would happen. If he had to drive any distance or exert himself for a couple of hours, it was a three day recuperation period, at best.

At the time, we were holding distributor trainings and Wellness Previews for our Network Marketing business. In addition, Mark was sometimes asked to be a guest speaker at out of town Wellness Previews and to co-host other special events. The stress of even thinking about it was the tourniquet that was ringing the life out of him. He had been in total denial of his situation and refused to give up. I believe it is what saved his life.

Finally in April of 1999, he admitted he couldn’t do it anymore and retired from doing events of any kind. This admission was emotionally devastating. He felt beaten.

EVERY CELL IN MY BODY IS ON FIRE

I remember the day he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “Patty, I feel like every cell in my body is on fire and they’re screaming. I don’t have one place on my body that doesn’t hurt. I looked in the mirror today and I could literally see the life draining from me. I can’t hold on much longer. I’m really tired.” Tired. He said ‘tired’. I didn’t like the sound of that. He was hanging on by a thread.

At best, he was sleeping 2-3 hours at a time. Constant exhaustion doesn’t begin to describe his physical state. Mealtimes were disastrous. Food sat in his stomach for days without digesting. We could watch his abdomen swell with the retention.

After reading Batman Ghelidj book How to Deal with Back Pain and Rheumatoid Joint Pain,

he drank water all of the time. The entire premise was the hydration of the system and its importance. This would come back full circle later on.

MERCURY REMOVAL

For many years, Mark believed that the Mercury fillings in his teeth were contributing to his ill-health. His own research validated his suspicion. He was exhibiting all the symptoms of Mercury toxicity. In an effort to detoxify, he bought an FIR sauna and tried to sweat it out. In the summer of 1999, Mark’s search, via the Internet, led him to a dentist who was an expert in Mercury removal and Whole Body Dentistry.

An Electro-Dermal Screening (EAV Electro-Acupuncture Accord-ing to Voll) revealed that his systems were no longer capable of sustaining an electron flow. Total systems in his body were shutting down.

The first consultation with the doctor revealed that there was much more to the process than simple drilling and refilling. The body had to be prepared for the toxic elimination through a an all natural protocol. Otherwise, once the Mercury was removed, it could further invade the body and cause even more problems. He was also tested for allergic reactions to numerous substances to evaluate which would be the best new filling. This process took two months.

The process ended in early November with a brand new, all white mouth.

His dentist offered him a piece of advice that would turn his life around. “Mark, you might want to have your thyroid checked because that huge filling I did was right on your thyroid meridian and that could be a lot of your problem.” With that, a referral was made to see Connecticut’s leading endocrinologist in mid-December. Test result would be available in mid January.

For the first time in his life, Mark had a will drawn. It was frighteningly obvious to me that he was giving up. The thought of his thyroid test not coming back positive weighed on him. At least with it positive, he could treat it. If not, he didn’t know where to turn. The possibilities were running out.

WELCOME NEWS!

Finally, the news came in. Yes, he was hypo-thyroid. Now he had to hope the treatment would be successful. Everyone told him “No problem, you take a pill, and you’re fine.” The doctor told him it wasn’t that simple and there were a lot of variables. “All in all, you should be feeling better by Christmas.”

It seemed so far away. We were both hoping it would only be a couple of months. It was like receiving yet another sentence.

He didn’t really know much about the thyroid and what its purpose was until he got his blood test. A sign was posted “The thyroid controls the metabolic function of every cell of the body.” Well, that would explain everything. Sharp pains stabbed his chest at a moment’s notice without any kind of exertion. It was angina.

DEPRESSION SET IN

Every day was a struggle. Getting his meals, personal care and maintaining a household became more than he could handle. Depression had taken a firm hold and the days seemed endless. Loneliness was something that was eating at him despite the fact that he didn’t want company.

With his history of medications, he refused to seek help for the depression until his sister provided him with a referral to a naturopathic doctor. He knew that the standard means of treating depression was going to add to his toxicity and right now, that was more of a problem than the depression.

I helped with phone calls and with his business when I could. It was overwhelming both of us. We had to stop all involvement with our Network Marketing business. It was too much for him physically. All of his energy had to be spent on getting himself well. For over a year, Mark became a virtual recluse and immersed himself in finding the answer to turning his health around.

ENTER MEGA-H™ - The World's Most Powerful Anti-oxidant

In December of 1999, a doctor from Virginia sent Mark an audio tape about an antioxidant called Mega-H. We both listened to it and were impressed. Mark decided it was worth a try.

From the first day he started taking it, he felt better. “I don’t really know exactly how to explain it, I just didn’t feel like my body was so stressed. Like something was lifted from it. It was an ongoing feeling of daily improvement, until I got to the point where I was less sick and more energetic and finally I knew it was saving me. There were times I had to cut back on the Mega-H because I would feel sick. It came in waves when my body was dumping the toxins and Mercury.”

By mid-summer, his dentist told him he was finally beginning to move the toxins. It was finally happening. With a new enthusiasm, he decided to increase his intake of Mega-H. Again, he was nauseous and overwhelmed. The toxins were fighting to retain their position.

“I could feel myself beating this. I ordered every tape the company had to offer ~ 65 to be exact ~ and gave myself an education. I concluded that the science behind the products Mega-H and Crystal Energy was sound. I believed in the science of this product and I wanted to meet Dr. Patrick Flanagan, the genius who invented the Mega-H. I wanted to talk to the doctors to find out if I could be helped by these products - or be hurt? I just wanted some answers.”

“I WAS AT THE END OF MY ROPE AND DECIDED TO ROLL THE DICE.”

So at the end of August, Mark and I traveled to California for a four-day educational seminar sponsored by the company distributing the product at the time. There were many doctors speaking on a variety of nutritional topics but specifically related different aspects of the Microcluster® technology.

Mark also had the opportunity to have Dark Field Blood Microscopy. When his blood was viewed, he heard, “You are a sick man”. He was told how to administer Microhydrin® and Crystal Energy so as not to become sick and still accomplish detoxification. A variety of other supporting products were also recommended that would protect his organs and body during his recovery. As the Mercury passed out of his system, there was a good chance organs could be damaged. They needed to be kept healthy.

“This is the only company that I know of who uses Dark Field Blood Microscopy to prove the efficacy of their product and to my knowledge, there are only a couple of hundred practitioners in the country who practice and administer this tool. This is cutting edge in the United States, but has been utilized in Europe for some time. This company is helping to introduce this in North America along with their approach to Biological Terrain Analysis (BTA)”.

Encouraged, Mark returned home and followed his FIR sauna with a bath with Mega-H in it to help remove the toxins as fast as he could. The Negative Hydrogen had the ability to permeate his flesh and bones. He didn’t even have to swallow it.

Mark increased his intake of the Mega-H and dedicated himself to doing everything he could to detoxify as fast as he could. He did exactly as he was told in California and followed the protocol to a ‘T’. In addition to the Mega-H and Crystal Energy®, he took two supplements to help with hormone imbalance due to thyroid problem.

His left elbow had always been in a lot of pain, despite the fact that he had no injury. One day in his sauna, he noticed that sweat was dripping off of his left hand at the rate of one drop per second, while the right hand barely dripped at all. The Mercury lodges itself in the joints, organs, fat cells and brain. When one place is full, it moves on to a new place. Now he could see proof positive that the pain in his left elbow was due to a toxic buildup. It was draining right before his eyes.

The sauna opened his pores. When he bathed in the Mega-H, the water turned grayish brown. His pores were oozing toxins. The bath left him exhausted and sometimes so sick he worried about being able to get out. Knowing what he needed to do, he stayed the course.

By November, he was re-measured on the EAV machine and learned that his energy pathways and circuits were functioning at 100%. His dentist was stunned and wanted to know what he was doing. “If only all my patients could have this quick of a recovery”. Needless to say, the dentist began using Mega-H in his practice after reviewing scientific documentation and audios that Mark provided.

Mercury removal in that amount of time was unheard of at the time. Prior to this, any recovery was slow going at best. The Mega-H had done the impossible!

A CHRISTMAS GIFT

The agonizing chest pains stopped. Increasingly his energy returned and his breathing wasn’t labored. His weight began to drop and at the time of this writing he has lost 30 pounds. He was able to hold a conversation without exhausting himself. The thyroid finally beginning to work again. The Mega-H removed the Mercury, toxins and plaque ~ fast! Nothing else was able to do that.

All previous symptoms were gone. He was able to work every day. He was no longer tired and exhausted all of the time. His motor skills improved, no longer dropping things like he was, the joint pain vastly reduced, concentration improved, eyesight improved, skin color was healthier looking, his memory came back gradually and even his hair started to come back. It was thick and shiny and his famously long hair stood as a testament to his recovery.

Just as the thyroid doctor had anticipated, Christmas came and Mark was in dramatically improved shape. He still struggles with small health issues on occasion but continues to improve all the time.

DAMAGE ON A CELLULAR LEVEL

“What really happened to me? My cells were chemically assaulted, injured and damaged. Different cells were damaged and altered on different levels depending on what chemical went where and for how long. I feel that my true injuries were chemically induced. I now know that when you damage, injure or alter a human cell, being so delicate with its DNA and its balance, then, that damaged, sick, individual cell replicates itself in a slightly weaker condition and your cell quality slowly goes down hill.

The knowledge I’ve gained is that now, for the first time, I have the ability to repair my cells on a whole body level through an approach that is multi-faceted, through diet, exercise, and supplements pioneered by Drs. Flanagan and many others. Most importantly, is their vision about what can be done on a cellular level. I can eliminate the toxins, I can repair the damage done by those. I can now feed myself nutrients comparable to 'Rocket Fuel', whereas before, my nutrients were economy-grade gasoline. I’ve gone right past Premium Hi-Octane.

I’m really excited and have hope that this chemical imbalance can really be combated. I have real tools, knowledge and support to attack this thing that has happened to me and actually turn it around.

I was given the first injection in 1979 of morphine, antibiotics and everything else. I created a toxic nightmare within my organs and my glands. I became a pincushion for doctors. My body was awash with some of the most toxic concoctions ever conceived by man. It wasn’t about the leg break or pain changing me, it was about the chemicals administered. There has never been a ‘whole’ approach to fix that."

CHEMICALLY INJURED CELLS BEGET CHEMICALLY INJURED CELLS

" Nobody has seemed to come up with the knowledge that this company has, which is to say that they have a lot of products that together, will fix the whole being. You have to feed the whole being with the best possible nutrition on the planet. Beyond that, you have to address hormones, free radical elimination, the manufacture of human energy and biological terrain.”

This company is addressing everything physical, mental and emotional with products like DHA, progesterone, etc. A ‘whole’ approach based on ‘lets feed the whole cell and turn the flawed process around’. Chemically injured cells have begotten chemically injured cells until my cells have deteriorated. They’ve obtained the products to fix that. These people are longevity specialists. That to me, is exciting. There are no holes, no gaps."

MY HORMONES WERE ALTERED

“I was completely saturated with powerfully destructive, chemical forces. There wasn’t a cell or place in my body left unturned where those chemical forces did not do their damage. From thereon, my hormones were altered - just in the fact that I could never maintain the same weight 2 days in a row. I turned yellow with black eyes - my liver and kidneys were not functioning properly.

Throw Mercury on top of all of that, PCB’s on top of all of that, my body couldn’t cope with those, too. Not with the integrity of my cells compromised. They no longer functioned the way they were designed. They were in a constant state of deterioration all of the time."

Dr. Patrick Flanagan said that at some point, the cells of the body are in such a state of deterioration that they believe the body is dying and begin to consumes itself. This is the state I believed Mark had reached.

MY DRIVING FORCE

“It was proven to me once and for all that it was possible to get relief in a substantial way from an alternative, therapeutic product. This ignited a very strong drive in me that it was possible to help other things and maybe many things.

Sooner or later people will realize they paid a tremendous price for what has happened and mainstream medicine will be held up as an example that we’ll never want to go that way again.

This is very satisfying for me on a deep level to know I am changing things. Nobody’s out there loving chemicals. It’s not like that anymore. Everyone is afraid of chemicals. Everyone is fed up with chemicals.”

ARE THERE ANY STUDIES?

Yes. Mega-H is chemically known as Silica Hydride.

To hydrate

Increase alkalinity

Increase absorption of nutrients by cells

Increase removal of toxins