Brookhaven Rehabilitation & Health Care Center
250 Beach 17th Street
Far Rockaway, NY 11691
Phone 718-471-7500
Fax 718-327-9074

November 26, 2007

Hello Doctor Robert Coleman,

I’ve seen the show about Brookhaven on TLC and on tonight’s episode, you stated that you are still looking for the “missing link” for your patients’ addiction to food. I believe I’ve found that link.

I have been obese all my life. The lowest I ever weighed was after a stint with Weight Watchers when I was in grade 8 – at that time I got down to 135. Then, in high school – in grade 10 I went up to 210 because I had quick access to french fries everyday. I have never been under 210 in my entire adult life. Every 5 years I seem to gain another good 25 pounds.

My entire adult life, I have been a pretty healthful eater – I’ve always eaten lots of veggies, only whole grains, only lean meats, little butter, low fat milk, no desserts and used olive oil in most of my cooking – everything they say you are supposed to do. My weakness was a pizza once a week. Other than that, I very rarely ever eat fast food, I’ve bought frozen french fries once in my life, we have maybe 2 boxes of ice cream in our house over an entire summer, and I don’t have any addictions to drugs, candy, chocolate, soda, cigarettes or even coffee. In fact for most of my life, I’ve had green tea in the morning at work while everyone else is having coffee and donuts, and I usually have water with lunch and 1% milk with dinner.

I also have always walked to school or work – a minimum 30 minute walk twice daily, five days a week for the past 15 years. For one of my jobs, I had a 50 minute walk each way to work. For another I had a 23 block walk to work. I currently have a 30 minute walk to work and back each day.

Despite all of these things – last year I weighed my highest weight ever - 325 pounds. I am well-educated, I am professionally employed, have tried the gym – and have refused to use unhealthy, unbalanced approaches to weight loss in the past.

You know from your experience what happens to patients at 325. Our health starts to decline.

This year, on February 20, I discovered two swollen lymph nodes in my neck, and started to get scared – I’m only 35 years old. My dad had invested in a set of CDs by Anthony Robbins, who interviews Dr. Robert Young – a microbiologist and nutritionist from Utah.

In February, I went for a doctor’s appointment to see my GP and my blood pressure was 140/90. It had been that high consistently for the past year, and my doctor tried to put me on the water pill for it in the fall. I refuse to take prescription drugs. That same day, I started to follow a vegan diet as proposed by Dr. Young. I also removed wheat and sugar from my diet. One week later, at my specialist appointment – my blood pressure was down to 128/78 and has stayed there ever since.

I lost 30 pounds in the first 3 months of this year, and then moved from a vegan diet to a vegetarian diet during the summer. I was eating no meat, but I reintroduced dairy, eggs, cheese and wheat. I gained 10 pounds back.

In September I started having steamed vegetables for breakfast and lunch again – as I had been doing in the spring time. I still didn’t lose any weight. Then in October, I found Innerlight Inc., which markets Dr. Young’s books and products. The week of October 22, I received my package from Innerlight, read his book, “Ph Miracle for Weight Loss”, went completely vegan again, introduced healthy fats into my diet, and started drinking his green drink and taking his supplements.

In the past 4 weeks, I’ve lost a total of 20 pounds. Doing this also solved my acid reflux and sugar sensitivity. I’ve eliminated sugar and most carbs (which includes dairy products). The only real carbs I’m taking in are a quarter cup or so of cooked whole grains like millet, barley, quinoa or brown rice. I’ve also eliminated fermented foods, alcohol, vinegar, molds (cheese and mushrooms) and yeast from my diet. I’ve replaced everything with a huge increase in vegetable intake and I’ve added healthy fats, including flax seed oil and a few nuts. As a result of making these seemingly radical changes (although they are 100% completely back to nature and back to basics!) I can honestly say that my actual physical addiction to food is gone.

In the evenings, now I do not get any serious uncontrollable physical urges to eat – AT ALL, EVER. My mental ability to choose a different course of action has returned, now that the physical addiction to food is gone. Last week, I made a vegetarian lasagna (my all-time favorite food) for my husband’s dinners for the week, and I had a *mental* urge to have some, but I was able to *make the decision* to control that urge, and was able to choose not to have any.

Most of your patients are unable to choose their course of action, because they are physically addicted to their food.

This is the missing link that you are looking for in battling these peoples’ addictions – they are actually physically addicted to food, partially because they are not getting enough nutrition, but mostly because they are addicted to sugar and carbs, which creates an acid overload in the body. The acids, yeast, fungus, mold and parasites in their bodies are demanding sugar and nutrients, robbing them of nutrients and energy, and turning their bodies into a junk yard of waste byproducts. Take a look at the live blood samples from Dr. Robert Young’s book and website (I’ve given you the links below) to see these yeast, fungus, parasites, molds and acids at work in the blood stream.

I am sending you my own copy, (my only copy!) of Dr. Young’s book so that you can see for yourself what his theories are, it is fascinating reading, and I think you will find the missing link that you are looking for.

I believe so strongly in his scientific theories that I decided to become a distributor of his books and products. I guess I am hoping to turn my fat into cash! If you are interested in further reading, there is much more literature available.

Images of blood samples: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/microscopy-analysis.htm

Testimonials: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/search/index.php?category=Testimonies

Articles: http://www.phmiracleliving.com/search/index.php?category=Articles

His blog: http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2007/10/powerful-interview-of-dr-robert-o-young.html

More literature and other products: http://www.innerlightinc.com/makeithappen

Click on Products, Literature to see what other books he has written, there is some fun reading here!

I hope you’ll take a moment to read more about this approach, and I hope you’ll be as intrigued by it as I am. Maybe it will help some of your patients. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you want to talk more about this – but Dr. Young’s book really explains things well.

Thank you sincerely for the great work you are doing.